Good, Dictators, Billionaires and a Servant Leader

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  • Good, Dictators, Billionaires and a Servant Leader

    The trick of a successful dictatorship is to reduce all considerations to the balance of power and then grab power at all costs and any consequence.  If you have the power you can do anything you want and usually what… Continue reading

  • Good, Human Rights, Aspiration and Grit

    Be it Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, or Disability Rights, at their outset, all of those movements had little to no federal support, legal basis, or even local support. The true broad scope of movements of human rights seem always to… Continue reading

  • Good, Nonviolence, Pacifism, and Servant Leadership

    Strangely enough there is nothing passive about nonviolence or pacifism.  Nonviolence and pacifism are hard choices that must be actively engaged against the mainstream.  Nonviolence itself is a decision that counters a deeply embedded instinct to respond violently to insult… Continue reading

  • Good, Catching Fire, and Resistance

    The question keeps coming up; “Why isn’t the resistance catching fire?”  Yes there are demonstrations, and they grow as a form of expression that could be called the safe theater of the political.  In the past that theater could nudge… Continue reading

  • Good, the Young, the Earth, and Hopes Hiding Place

    If you have ever been in a fender bender car accident, you know at the sound of the crunch the present moment is already the second casualty. Red and blue lights form to fill out the changed ambiance, and strange… Continue reading

  • Good, and the 4th Virtue of the Next Democracy

    The Fourth proposed virtue of the Next Democracy, “Respect and Reverence for all Life and the Living“,  sadly brings us to the  divisions in this country over health care and environment.  For women, the divisions regarding life and the living are so very vulnerable… Continue reading

  • Good and the Evil Art of Enforced Disappearance

    When people start disappearing without due process you have to wonder what is going so terribly wrong. Perhaps it would be unfair to compare the seeds of what is being planted right here in the United States today to the… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • Good and Another Argument Against War

    We have seen large two strategies of war in our world  these recent years.  The first seems constructed around ‘stock pile strategy’  which is whoever runs out of weapons of destruction first loses.  Civilians be damned we shall keep the… Continue reading