Good and Sad Lives Without a History

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  • Good and Sad Lives Without a History

    This writer’s life, like probably most other people whose lives that exceed a certain number of years has been eventful without being exceptional. My spouse of 53 years, it happens, comes from a family that hand wrote letters to each… Continue reading

  • Good, The Next Democracy, Cult, and Traversing the Gulf of Disaster

    The Next Democracy Virtue 5 Primacy of priorities for the future generations and the Earth’s care; The idea that humans could alter the composition and process of life to the point where earth might become uninhabitable simply wasn’t on the mind of our 18th century constitution’s authors. In this century… Continue reading

  • 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 and the Broken Rules of War

    For anyone who wasn’t born before, during, or immediately after World War II, you may have forgotten or never been consciously aware of the crucial lessons taught by the conduct of WWII and its end.  If you are an American… Continue reading

  • Good AI and the End of the Internet Economy

    It feels like a dark storm moving in because more and more what I see on the internet I have to question as believable. Perhaps it was the casual, no consequence, lies we had to worry about in the last… Continue reading

  • Good, Government and that Pesky Humanity

    Human beings are not quite herd animals as history has shown us over and over.  Yet despite the repeating evidence, frequently a government will try to frame policy around tactics based on the assumption of humans travel across the prairies… 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