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Good, the Chain of Kingdoms, Sloth, and the Constitution
I want to be king of the world, but if not that, than maybe President/King of the United States. If not that, then perhaps Governor/king of a state in the United States. Well, . . maybe Mayor/king of a smaller… Continue reading
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Good and It’s the Economy and Yet, It Isn’t. Its Amnesia and more
A nation that can’t lift its gaze beyond the economy is doomed to be lost. Unregulated capitalism is a game of winners and losers. Unfortunately, we will never be able to fit in that straight jacket of simplistic logic and… Continue reading
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Good, the Work Force, and Big Lies
The calculus of the American work force is not what we are supposed to think. The meme constructed by the current administration is one of immigrant workers taking American jobs and American workers looking on in envy as their opportunities… Continue reading
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Good, Truth Carrying Grief, and the Atomized Society
History has thrust upon our generation an indescribably important task–to complete the process of democratization which our nation has too long developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect and emulation. How we deal with… Continue reading
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Good America the Broken Village, and the End of Complacency
The staggering realization that as Americans and tax payers we are funding an international system of concentration camps of immigrants of uncertain legal status should awaken every generation of Americans. A British based journalist wrote an article for the New… Continue reading
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Good, Power and the Deceptive Immunity from Law
The idea that powerful people are exempt from the law and its consequences is as old an illusion as history itself is old. The end of WWII did not automatically deliver the Nuremberg trials. At the peak of WWII no… Continue reading
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Good, Decapitation’s Effects, and Guillotine Diplomacy
Decapitation for the human species is 100% fatal. The numbers are only slightly better for decapitated nations. The French Revolution’s Reign of Terror demonstrated through the daily use of the guillotine if you decapitate a human being there is zero… Continue reading
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Good and America’s Armed Amygdala
The amygdala is the part of the human brain that is responsible for emotional processing. The fight or flight response also fires out of that organ of our brain. Our survival system works fast and must interpret reality at a… Continue reading
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Good, Government, and No Power, No Play
I suspect the readership of this column could expand if this Project were to pick sides and join in the stalemated fray called American politics. The reason that doesn’t happen is The Good Decision Project is about good and how… Continue reading
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Good and the Crude Dentistry of America’s Authoritarians
What happened last week in Venezuela upset the world order in ways our leadership cannot seem to imagine. Our current heavy handed government impulsively removed a President from another nation like an abscessed tooth on the assumption the cavity of… Continue reading