democracy
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Good, Freedom of Speech in the Context of Democracy’s Morality
The Third Virtue of the Next Democracy is “Freedom of Speech and Expression“. The first two virtues, 1. Speaking Truth and 2. Building a Shared Reality partially set the stage and context for Freedom of Speech, for speech, free or not, is nothing without… Continue reading
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Good, The Second Virtue of the New Democracy, and Shared Reality
If a culture becomes obsessed with differences and competition, not surprisingly they will end up finding differences and competing in those differences. Now if that same culture builds a transactional economy focused and based purely on those competing differences, look out,… Continue reading
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Democracy and Truth: The Power of Knowing What Else is True
In a training session on Trauma Resilience the presenter who has worked the earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, and large disasters across the globe directly assisting people who appeared to have lost everything, forever, gave me a life saving question to ask. … Continue reading
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Democracy’s First Virtue: Telling the Painful Inconvenient Truth
Truth in times like these will more often than not contain an arrangement of facts that are both painful and inconvenient. A recent public hearing showed a crowd screaming at a minority party representative to do something. Do what? The… Continue reading
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Good and Obscene Wealth: the Newest Disability
In case you haven’t noticed the term disability has been transformed in these past decades. In the 1980s and 90s people with functional differences from the mainstream stripped the prefix ‘dis’ from disability and decided that the only issues that… Continue reading
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Good and The Next Democracy in Our Land
If the current government is not good, what would be good? To make good decisions into the future this Project offers we need a new articulation of the virtues that would constitute the covenant of the Next Democracy for the… Continue reading
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Good, Good Connections, and Useless Knowledge
It is becoming more apparent as a nation we have too little natural resistance against dictatorship. The take over of the major balancing components of our democratic government is nearly complete. The controlling political party is hard wired to compliance… Continue reading
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Good and the End of Liberal and Conservative Politics
Liberal, progressive, and left wing have traditionally been associated with the Democratic Party and conservative, restrained and the right wing attach to the Republican Party. If this last election has shown anything it is the reality of those associations have… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy, Kakistocracy, and Demise
The joy of any age is to see new words of ancient lineage showing up in the headlines. This week’s new old word is Kakistocracy. Of likely Greek origin it describes a government overrun and run by the least competent… Continue reading
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Good, Tolerance and the Boulder of Violence
This Project’s focus on good cannot have much validity unless we address the edges of tolerance and intolerance. The world has too much evidence of intolerable violence in motion right now. Our country is going to be pushed to the… Continue reading
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