Good and Hierarchy; its Good Uses and Gross Abuses

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  • Good and Hierarchy; its Good Uses and Gross Abuses

    Imagine in a storm a tree falls and breaks the high power electrical line to the hospital.  Not only that, but the backup generators are underwater and the trucks with repair supplies can’t make it to the line break.  The… Continue reading

  • Good and The Three Minds of America

    No science here; just observation. This writer sees three general mindsets in America: The Warring Mind and the Pure Process Mind  and the Peace Maker Mind. The first two minds are weak and the last is a power mind. Starting… Continue reading

  • Good and When a Man can’t Lose

    Every parent sooner or later must teach their children you can’t win them all. As a parent you endure the child’s tears and encourage a different approach and wait for the insight to take hold. We all have loses that… Continue reading

  • Good and the Slaughter of Innocents

    Recently in Sudan, 60,000 inhabitants in the Sudanese city of El Fasher were simply slaughtered. How is that possible?  The arms industry and its many international branches of enterprise make it possible and our administration’s indifference to such horrifying mayhem… Continue reading

  • Good, Wealth, Capitalism and Anti-gravity

    Galleries are not the engine of the art world. Artists and their art are. Culture only trickles up, and money never trickles down.  A comment by Lari Pittman from Los Angeles in an NYT letter to the editor. Here are… Continue reading

  • Good, Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, and Pavlov’s Dogs

    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov developed the principles of classical conditioning that have led to the further development of innumerable behavioral therapies that still serve us well. Leave it to this administration to use the principles of classical conditioning to reverse the… Continue reading

  • Good and the Disease of Insatiable Wealth

    Dr. David Lay Williams is a professor of political science who studies the role of economic inequality in the history of political thought. He wrote the following quote as a guest writer in the New York Times addressing ancient concerns… Continue reading

  • Good, Human Connection, and Social Capital

    What is Social Capital?  Is it the ultimate expression of capitalism, or is it an organic dimension of universal human development and thriving?  Let’s start with the idea off social capital as a misnomer.  Poor people, and I mean desperately… Continue reading

  • Good and the Abuse of Understanding

    Our latest war seems to have stalled out in a Memorandum of Misunderstanding where both sides realize they cannot win so they are trying to divide up the losses.In this writers experience most “memorandums of understanding” in any administration were… Continue reading

  • Good, the 20th Century “Magna Carta” for the World and the Child in America

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the United Nations in 1948.  That Declaration has been described as the Magna Carta of the Twentieth Century. The quote below is taken from the Convention on the Rights of the Child which… Continue reading