decision-making
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Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock
Nihilism, as this writer understands it, is simply giving up on critical thought, meaning, purpose, or any activity that hasn’t a discernible paycheck or minimally the thrill of retribution on the backend of the effort. Nihilism is apparently making a… Continue reading
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Good, Character, Parable, and the More Dangerous Liar
One of the benefits of including a little poetry in these posts is the poems attract interesting, talented writers. One brief connection I have benefited from comes from a response to the previous posting about bad news exhaustion. I will… Continue reading
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Good, Grief, and the Exhaustion of Bad News
I sense a bad news exhaustion in myself as well as readers. Writing bad news in bold lettering does little to nothing to counter the bad news of this day. The new AI enhanced cartoons about the current leaders are… Continue reading
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Good, AI, and When a Secretive Force becomes a Secret Police
When you hear of secret deportation flights, plain clothes agents, masked enforcers, cyber investigations and attempts by government to breach the the firewalls of citizen privacy in Social Security, IRS, and Human Services, than the current secretive enforcement campaign can… Continue reading
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Good Starvation and the Sin of Distraction
I suspect some forms of distraction could be called a moral transgression or in less letters and a shorter word, a sin. For example, the spreading of the the lies of crimes in politics while the crime actually occurs in… Continue reading
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Good and Submitting to Nature and Wilderness
My wife and I climbed a steep arroyo yesterday just above Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. There were a few things for us to always consider in the back country in New Mexico. The first is to stay together if… Continue reading
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Good, Mortality, Poets and What Really Matters
There are going to be dry patches in this period of history where one wakes up in the morning and it feels like there is nothing left to say. This wordless writer read about Andrea Gibson, a poet, this morning… Continue reading
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Good, Ethics, Breaking the Law and Country
Ethics are mediating devices through which humanity can prevent the rule of law from becoming a tyrant. Every human person is infinitely complex and every human law is profoundly limited due to that individual complexity. The law is most definitely… Continue reading
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Good, Discovering Reality, Justice, and Imagination
This country could only end up in this set of circumstances through the lazy neglect of imagination. The working phrase is: “Imagine how you would feel if . . . . . .?”. The alternative to imagination, particularly in deciding… Continue reading
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Good and When Moral Distress becomes Fatal
In this writers home state 21,000 people could lose medicaid services thanks to the new federal legislation. It can’t be that different in other states. Forget red state and blue state and lets just think in terms of dead or… Continue reading
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