democracy

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Good Future Hope and the New Vote Market

    My generation, like all generations, is not innocent.  We accomplished some good things in our time, but we also seem to have not considered sufficiently the needs of future generations with the committed energy needed. Many indigenous societies and cathedral… Continue reading

  • Good, Efficacy, and Authoritarian Government

    I have carefully walked around all the ‘isms” on this website because I feel we need to speak from the heart sometimes or, as you may know by now, respond freely with discipline to our feeling states. Joy, inspiration, rage,… Continue reading