Good, Empathy, Conscience and War

politics

  • Good, Empathy, Conscience and War

    This writer scans the news for actual facts and waits for the information to either contradict or confirm existing versions of what might be true. This morning of course, the headlines screamed WAR. And below that prospect were the news… Continue reading

  • Good and What is Deeper than Opportunism?

    Capitalism and the American system take heavy criticism for being opportunistic.  Some of that criticism is profoundly merited and some slightly hypocritical.  We all tend to love opportunity when it serves our cause.   The legal system is being exploited and… Continue reading

  • Good, Immigration, and Living in the Frosting of a Cake

    I am learning that many people like the current administration’s goals, but dislike the methods used to achieve those goals. David French of the New York Times caught that surprising factoid from a CBS/YouGov poll. That shouldn’t surprise us but it… Continue reading

  • Good, Why We?, and Wily Culpability

    This Project might pull in more readers if this writer stopped using the pronouns  “we” and “us” and started pointing fingers.  I think the current approach may be frustrating to some friends both liberal and conservative.  There are reasons for… Continue reading

  • Good, Character, Class, and Picking Friends and Allies

    The one downside of having reached the top is there is nowhere to run from your mistakes.  A wealthy businessman who makes mistakes near the top can always resign and pull out the old trope of needing to spend time… Continue reading

  • Good, the “Sin of Empathy??”, Rantings and Ravings

    I read the other day there are  some nationalists who now consider empathy a sin. They have attached themselves to one of the world’s major religious traditions by a thread, if that. Given the times we are in, this touch… Continue reading

  • Good, Government as Video Game, and the Strongmen

    I doubt many people would mistake a gifted War Craft video game player as a great American soldier.  Let’s face it, pushing buttons on a console and starring dazedly at a screen hardly equates to military service.  In some ways… Continue reading

  • Good and Reforming the Normal: Speaking Truth

    This Project and website proposed seven virtues of a New Democracy to which a citizen would need to commit in order for the United States to begin the process of reforming the era we are in and once again be… Continue reading

  • Good and the Danger of the “Tsunami of Normal”

    We don’t appreciate normal in our culture until something changes and suddenly nothing seems as we thought it to be. But then, that is how life works. Normal is accepted in disdainful neglect until either death, failure, disaster, or unusual… Continue reading

  • Good and the Princely Trappings of Fascism

    Standing on the podium with a stern smile of self-importance while rank after marching rank of soldiers turn and solute the supreme leader of the failing kingdom has long been a favorite of soda cracker dictators enjoying the hopelessly pompous… Continue reading