Good and the Danger of the “Tsunami of Normal”

politics

  • 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

  • Good, Your Garden, Their Forest, and Our Next Better Democracy.

    If you have ever planted a garden you know the optimism of green spring day shoots clearing the soil level, and the heartbreak of the first hail storm.  Never mind all the bugs, snakes and other four legged pests feasting… Continue reading

  • Good, Dictators, Billionaires and a Servant Leader

    The trick of a successful dictatorship is to reduce all considerations to the balance of power and then grab power at all costs and any consequence.  If you have the power you can do anything you want and usually what… Continue reading

  • Good, Human Rights, Aspiration and Grit

    Be it Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, or Disability Rights, at their outset, all of those movements had little to no federal support, legal basis, or even local support. The true broad scope of movements of human rights seem always to… Continue reading

  • Good, Nonviolence, Pacifism, and Servant Leadership

    Strangely enough there is nothing passive about nonviolence or pacifism.  Nonviolence and pacifism are hard choices that must be actively engaged against the mainstream.  Nonviolence itself is a decision that counters a deeply embedded instinct to respond violently to insult… Continue reading

  • Good, Law and Order, and Simplicity as Paradox

    How can one achieve simplicity in a complex society? Is it a choice to keep it simple or is it an obligation to wade into the complexities of the human drama. Each reader will have their opinion as does this… Continue reading

  • Good, Catching Fire, and Resistance

    The question keeps coming up; “Why isn’t the resistance catching fire?”  Yes there are demonstrations, and they grow as a form of expression that could be called the safe theater of the political.  In the past that theater could nudge… Continue reading

  • Good, the Young, the Earth, and Hopes Hiding Place

    If you have ever been in a fender bender car accident, you know at the sound of the crunch the present moment is already the second casualty. Red and blue lights form to fill out the changed ambiance, and strange… Continue reading

  • Good, and the 4th Virtue of the Next Democracy

    The Fourth proposed virtue of the Next Democracy, “Respect and Reverence for all Life and the Living“,  sadly brings us to the  divisions in this country over health care and environment.  For women, the divisions regarding life and the living are so very vulnerable… Continue reading