Good and Building Toward the ‘Shared Public Reality’

democracy

  • Good and Building Toward the ‘Shared Public Reality’

    The second virtue of a New Democracy (Building Toward the ‘Shared Public Reality’ and Unity) is to lock into a value that when exercised separates a true democracy from the 21st century train wreck now called the Divided States of America (DSA). As a country… Continue reading

  • Good; Expression, and Speech, as Virtue, Human Right, and Crime

    Children are hounded with insults until they suicide. We have a president who posts and reposts obscenities. We see long term public servants reduced to a single insulting sentence of dismissal from leadership at the highest levels in government. We… Continue reading

  • Good and the Paralyzing Limits of Pure Resistance

    Like about seven million other patriotic Americans across the nation this writer attended a No Kings Protest in a small town with about only 250 other protesters. But the passion and creativity were on display. This week the signs and… Continue reading

  • Good, Democracy and the Titanic’s Deck Furniture

    There are metaphors that stand the test of time.  Theologian Marcus Borg once said ‘a model is a metaphor that works. This is a “Titanic” time in politics. The Titanic’s deck furniture and how it was arranged just before it… Continue reading

  • Good and Power’s Purpose

    In reading a New York Times article interviewing younger Americans who voted for the current administration I came away with the sense the only thing they absolutely agreed upon is the opposition party (in this case Democrats) lacked coherent identity… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Good, Honor, and Evil: The Brothers at Odds

    When a father, husband or son executes a young woman for disobedience to the family’s honor code, whatever that code is, how does the word ‘honor’ fit with that killing? This is a question some countries and cultures are attempting… Continue reading

  • Good: and the Kryptonite Called Division

    The futility of our times is we keeping sharpening the blades of rage be those blades sarcastic humor, or outright disgust; aversion backed by our version of “facts” only to remain ever more mired in a dangerous deadlock. This is… Continue reading

  • Good, Two Trick Ponies and the Dog Days of Summer

    Do people make big decisions in the Dog Days of Summer? Not so much I think. August is summer, sand, and the lassitude of heavy heat. The one thing that does happen is repetition, for it is easier and less… Continue reading

  • 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