Good: Liberal Arts, and History’s Patterns to be Broken

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  • Good: Liberal Arts, and History’s Patterns to be Broken

    This writer was once a consultant for organizations struggling for direction relative to mission.  One afternoon I was the only male sitting with a group of much younger professional women after a fruitful afternoon of organizational work.  In the post… Continue reading

  • Good, Violence, Scolding and The Tolerance Paradox

    We are solidly into the Tolerance Paradox.  The Tolerance Paradox, like all really good puzzles like this is a quite simple question: Is intolerance tolerable?  How do we subscribe to virtue without becoming trapped in intolerance or finding ourselves tolerating… Continue reading

  • Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health

    I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health.  The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence… Continue reading

  • Good, Just Plain Good

    Perhaps the mother and father of all the holiday celebrations is the Solstice promising the return of the light of day. We can all drop our roles and heavy responsibilities for this season and concentrate on the good things our… Continue reading

  • Good and the Human Flaw

    Exploding pagers and two way radios triggered these reflections but they are only the tipping point of a long history of concern. When your skin-close personal possessions and accessories suddenly are outed as potential weapons of war some kind of… Continue reading

  • Good, People, War, Crime

    If you really want a prolonged war the first thing to do is to reduce people into categories. Create a box that looks like an egg crate and line those people up in neat abstract rows. Crimes of passion in… Continue reading