politics
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Good, Violence, Scolding and The Tolerance Paradox
We are solidly into the Tolerance Paradox. The Tolerance Paradox, like all really good puzzles like this is a quite simple question: Is intolerance tolerable? How do we subscribe to virtue without becoming trapped in intolerance or finding ourselves tolerating… Continue reading
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Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health
I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health. The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence… Continue reading
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Good and The Next Democracy in Our Land
If the current government is not good, what would be good? To make good decisions into the future this Project offers we need a new articulation of the virtues that would constitute the covenant of the Next Democracy for the… Continue reading
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Good, Dishonor and Appeasement: Peace in the Shadows
I am reminded this week by the shameful work of the current administration of Neville Chamberlain’s signing the Munich Agreement in 1938 with Germany’s Adolf Hitler, Fascist Italy and the French Republic. This agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex Sudetenland… Continue reading
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Good, and the 21st Century Version of the Examination of Conscience
The Good Decision tries to look at both sides of any aspect of ‘good’. Otherwise, how can it be good if the bias of one’s mind is set to deny the errors of one’s way? The consequence of this examination… Continue reading
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Good and Decisions in the Last Life Boats
The dark fascination with the last moments of the Titanic often comes home on the issue of too few life boats available and too many people in the fatally dark waters. We tend to follow the movie storyline to the… Continue reading
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Good, Good Connections, and Useless Knowledge
It is becoming more apparent as a nation we have too little natural resistance against dictatorship. The take over of the major balancing components of our democratic government is nearly complete. The controlling political party is hard wired to compliance… Continue reading
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Good, Unforgiving MAGA, and a New Kind of Inhumanity
The news service article was a throw away; something about the boos for Taylor Swift at the latest Super Bowl. But then the new president of our nation is quoted as having made a very low-end comment saying the boos… Continue reading
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Good, Morality or Business?, the False Binary
When I read one of our political parties had proposed concentrating the message more on business more than morality I had to press against both ears with my hands because my head was threatening to explode. When simple grade school… Continue reading
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Good and the End of Liberal and Conservative Politics
Liberal, progressive, and left wing have traditionally been associated with the Democratic Party and conservative, restrained and the right wing attach to the Republican Party. If this last election has shown anything it is the reality of those associations have… Continue reading
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