Good and Decisions in the Last Life Boats

politics

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Good, Nurturance, and Designing to the Sound of the Wrecking Ball

    People who have their lives in order and may be getting bored often like to praise the virtues of chaos and the opportunities to be found in that state. Well, with this new wrecking ball approach to government, the good… Continue reading

  • Good, False Morality, and Friends and Enemies,

    Morality in its natural state is a set of behavioral expectations arising from the social mores of a culture or community.  Religions also impact morality, and each informs their own practitioners of their specific  moral instructions through their sources of… Continue reading

  • Good, Distraction, and the True Sense Radical

    How do we break through this divisive trance? In earlier Posts we have looked at the difference between the extremist and the true radical. The point was the extremist plays the shallow ends of the political spectrum. The true sense… Continue reading

  • Good and the Passing of a President

    Can you imagine a President of this country who worked tirelessly after his term in office to directly and personally build housing for people living in poverty, was instrumental in reducing to almost elimination river blindness, created international programs to… Continue reading

  • Good, “Justified Killing”, and the Mortal Decision

    The tragically mistaken idea of someone killing another human being can be justified based on their own private rational and personal experience has surfaced once again in the storm stream of the internet. It appears the CEO of Unitedhealth may… Continue reading