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Good, Line of Sight, and the Arroyos of Politics
We all are programmed to respond to line of sight. For example, I am on a hike in the high deserts of New Mexico and I see the destination structure flickering in the heat in the distance. I know that… Continue reading
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Good and Super Powers in an Age Needing Super Subordinates
That any nation is a super power is an astounding bit of hubris. No nation can be a super power when nature has geologic time and sheer force on her side. Nature is the superpower and human kind’s only thrivers… Continue reading
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Good, Mental Health, and Raging Leadership
“We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”… Continue reading
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Good and the Problem of being a “For-Againster”
This is about either creating your way out of trouble or lounging in the passive position of simply being for-against. Creativity requires thought, courage, energy and concentration. Being For-Againster only requires you oppose what the others are for. Their “for” automatically becomes your… Continue reading
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Good and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Shoulders of Giants.
While criticism of the contemporary American scene may be important, the one thing criticism doesn’t generate is a vision of a better world or the Next Democracy. That task has already been started for us and we need only to… Continue reading
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Good and the Price of your Soul
The good news is that if you want to sell your soul, at least the president and his party have put a real price tag on it. For tens of thousands of years the human soul has evaded the commodification… Continue reading
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Good and the Assault on Goodness
This writer sees the eyes roll when I suggest I am writing this column to support and rehabilitate the word “good”. The more interested people who contest this approach ask me if I am promoting the all out relativity of… Continue reading
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Good, Greatness, Grandiosity, and Insulting the Greatest Generation.
To call the modern clickity-click digital paralyzing of economies and small businesses across the globe an equivalent to WWII D day on Normandy beaches is an insult to the soldiers, leaders, and American citizens who pulled off one of the… Continue reading
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Good and Trusting the Broken Word
The world is beginning to grasp that there is no “deal” with the United States because this administration has broken international trust and America is no longer perceived as a reliable partner for trade or national security. Lessons children learn… Continue reading
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Good, Right or Left and the Radical Heart
The midterms are coming up and once again it looks like the fabric of unity is ripping apart under the stress to the political binaries. The nation is in halves and the parties are themselves breaking again into halves. Unity… Continue reading
