Good, and the 4th Virtue of the Next Democracy

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  • 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

  • Good, Freedom, Liberty, and the New “Bait and Switch”

    The protagonist in a popular television series called Zero Day made a distinction between liberty and freedom. Because this writer had never really given those two words much thought at that level I went to the Oxford Dictionary to see… Continue reading

  • Good, Competition, Capitalism, and the Pressure Points

    These reflections arise from reading about the pressures on airline pilots, air traffic controllers, workers subject to ‘keystroke counts’ and other ‘Musklike” pressures being constantly introduced into our world of work. Humans love to compete as it brings out  marvelous… 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, Dishonor and Appeasement: Peace in the Shadows

    I am reminded this week by the shameful work of the current administration of Neville Chamberlain’s signing the Munich Agreement in 1938 with Germany’s Adolf Hitler, Fascist Italy and the French Republic. This agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex Sudetenland… 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