politics
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Good Violence and Winning the Revolution
Sometimes it seems from history’s lessons that the only thing more difficult than losing the revolution is winning it. The victors inherit the structure of governance, or what is left of it, and have to do better than the vanquished… Continue reading
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Good, Authority and the Idiot’s Power
When a new administration appoints the cabinet members, state or federal, the prayer is the appointees have the authority (authenticity/expertise) to handle the power (simple leverage) of their new charges. The attribute of authority is a life time disciplined project,… Continue reading
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Good, Debate, Lies, and Moral Equivalency
When did it happen that a person could prevail in a debate simply because that person got away with the most effective lies, omissions, and immoral moral equivalencies? If you watched the US political debates this year, there must have… Continue reading
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Good and the Tyranny of Need
We live in a culture where we have given other people permission to engineer and impose upon us what they need our personal needs to be. When we submit to that contract, advertisers and influences own a big part of… Continue reading
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Good, Tolerance and the Boulder of Violence
This Project’s focus on good cannot have much validity unless we address the edges of tolerance and intolerance. The world has too much evidence of intolerable violence in motion right now. Our country is going to be pushed to the… Continue reading
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Good, Fascism, Socialism and Play Ground Insults
Lobbing gross insults across the line is a pathetic way to run a campaign. We hear people shouting ‘fascist’, ‘socialist’, ‘communist’ and so forth while many have only a vague idea of what is contained in these exchanges. The current acceptance… Continue reading
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Good Future Hope and the New Vote Market
My generation, like all generations, is not innocent. We accomplished some good things in our time, but we also seem to have not considered sufficiently the needs of future generations with the committed energy needed. Many indigenous societies and cathedral… Continue reading
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Good, War, and the new Escalating Stalemate
As we pass through year one of the middle east conflict I have to wonder if perhaps we have a third party in these tragic wars of our new young century. That third party would be an arms industry that… Continue reading