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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
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Good, Methadone, and Fossil fuels: America’s Drug of Choice
Every time I hear or read we “captured” another county’s leader, I cringe. This writer is clearly no fan of Venezuela’s President, but let us face the truth; kidnapping another nation’s president is not “capturing” but simple kidnapping. No, this… Continue reading
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Good and Punishment on ‘Suspicion of Crime’
In some slow not so subtle changes in our country’s sense of justice, to suspect one of a crime is becoming the new standard of punishment: no trial, no evidence, no justification; simply suspicion can trigger brutal or even capital… Continue reading
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Good, Pardons, Magical Thinking, and the Importance of Real Evidence
Our current leadership holds its position of power because a thin majority the United States seemed willing to override real evidence of crime with “pardons of denial” when it came to voting in the last election. Perhaps the denial phase… Continue reading
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Good, Peace, Private Interest, Public Loss and Ignorance
In reading the history leading up to the second World War it seemed the world had learned an important lesson in trying to negotiate a peace through the concession of other people’s land and culture to the aggressor. If you… Continue reading
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Good and The Crime of “Dog Whistling” the Hounds from Hell
To call any group of human beings of any status, race or nationality, gender etc. “garbage” should be an impeachable crime when the lie is told from a position of power. If you follow the news, that term is reported… Continue reading
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Good and Why Immigration is not Political
If you don’t understand why immigration is not essentially political you need to go to the movie Nuremberg which has recently opened in theaters. No, the treatment of the immigrant is first and foremost, moral. The political response is only an echo of… Continue reading
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