Good, Truth Carrying Grief, and the Atomized Society

politics

  • 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

  • Good, The Damage We do, and Lasting Wounds

    Wendall Berry, American poet, essayist, conservationist, teacher and, at root, a farmer provided the following quote.  His words are humble and instructive as we navigate the age “In general I have used my farm carefully.  It could be said I… Continue reading

  • Good, Breakdown in America, and Human Monasteries

    In times of social upheaval the cultures tend to build thick walls to protect their version of civilization that houses their sense of good in monasteries, libraries, or in an infinite variety of creeds, codes, or cults. Upheaval is a… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • Good and America the Godfather: the Downside of Mafia Tactics

    Anyone who watches the Godfather trilogy knows after watching the three hypnotic and strangely depressing trilogy of movies, in the end, the last Corleone simply collapses over the ashes of brutal life in which he achieved everything, bought the world,… Continue reading

  • Good, Transactional Idiocy, and the Greenland Ruse

    We have a piece of calligraphy in our home done by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist teacher that says: “Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World”. This simple truth carries a second message unstated: “War in Oneself, War in the… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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