Good and Death by Disconnected Detail

philosophy

  • Good and Death by Disconnected Detail

    This writer’s adult life has spanned the birth of the personal computer, invention of internet, and the spread of social media, so the concept of a society drowning in an ocean of detail stands out in near perfect relief.  From… Continue reading

  • Good, Democracy and the Fallacy of “My Own Morality”

    The question becomes:  Can one individual have their own morality?  The short answer is no.  Only a narcissist can have “their own static morality” and that becomes a diagnosis rather than a morality.  Ultimately morality is a social word and… Continue reading

  • Good, Dancing Presidents, and Calibrating the Value of a Human Life

    When this reader sees bombs exploding and flames leaping across buildings and habitat for some reason I see no reason to celebrate.  “Not one American life lost” is presented as the ‘good news’, but later in the news story in… Continue reading

  • Good, the Parasite and the Public Ethic

    A good parasite does not kill its host or at least not immediately. A good parasite knows at some primitive level that for as long as the host lives, the nutrition flows. But like all other communities of life, some… Continue reading

  • Good, Xenophobia and the Gold of Common Ground

    The price of gold has had a wild ride in these contemporary economies.  That is largely because with gold we can fake it but we can’t make it (yet).  Like gold, common ground exists and in terms of value to… Continue reading

  • Good: Talking life but Choosing Death

    Having a Palliative Care nurse as a spouse and poet has left me a different person than I would be if I hadn’t. The end of life presents the ultimate decision points that either gather together all that is good… Continue reading

  • Good, Pure Capitalism, and People as Problem

    The unavoidable flaw in pure Capitalism is the spreadsheet is not the whole story even when it is the only book you read. The unavoidable problem for people right now is they are facing a competition that has never existed… Continue reading

  • Good and the Fallacy of the Financial Elite

    The highest standard of elite in a democracy is the authentic distillation, expression  and codification of the public’s authority.  Democracy is a public service. Yes, private individuals may have the power to trash the United States White House, but they are not… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and Fogging while Flogging Truth.

    The error of this age is the conflation of information with capital “T” Truth. This error is being exponentially accelerated by the misuse of AI combined with the practice of nihilism in our current government. Nihilism as an unspoken philosophy… Continue reading

  • Good, The Next Democracy, Cult, and Traversing the Gulf of Disaster

    The Next Democracy Virtue 5 Primacy of priorities for the future generations and the Earth’s care; The idea that humans could alter the composition and process of life to the point where earth might become uninhabitable simply wasn’t on the mind of our 18th century constitution’s authors. In this century… Continue reading