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Good, False Morality, and Friends and Enemies,
Morality in its natural state is a set of behavioral expectations arising from the social mores of a culture or community. Religions also impact morality, and each informs their own practitioners of their specific moral instructions through their sources of… Continue reading
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Good, Deep History, and the Vatman’s Tears
To create a moment in history like ours today, you need to ignore two things; deep history and the facts of the day. The facts are here for us to use and abuse. But history lies in the root system… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy, Kakistocracy, and Demise
The joy of any age is to see new words of ancient lineage showing up in the headlines. This week’s new old word is Kakistocracy. Of likely Greek origin it describes a government overrun and run by the least competent… Continue reading
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Good Violence and Winning the Revolution
Sometimes it seems from history’s lessons that the only thing more difficult than losing the revolution is winning it. The victors inherit the structure of governance, or what is left of it, and have to do better than the vanquished… Continue reading
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Good and the Tyranny of Need
We live in a culture where we have given other people permission to engineer and impose upon us what they need our personal needs to be. When we submit to that contract, advertisers and influences own a big part of… Continue reading
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Good, Duty of Witness, and the Nation’s Next Story
This concludes this election series of posts. In not too long the votes will be counted and possibly be in the process of being recounted and re-recounted. The possibility of violence exists coming from the transfer of power; a feeling… Continue reading
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Good and Power
For some people good and power are contradictions and for others, near perfect synonyms. Of course both positions are false which is why we have two different words representing two distinct forces in this universe. The formal definitions of these… Continue reading
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