religion
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Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock
Nihilism, as this writer understands it, is simply giving up on critical thought, meaning, purpose, or any activity that hasn’t a discernible paycheck or minimally the thrill of retribution on the backend of the effort. Nihilism is apparently making a… Continue reading
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Good, Thriving and The Cost of “I”
“The master trend in recent Western culture has been to emancipate the individual from the group, and now we are paying the social and spiritual price.” David Brooks, New York Times It is as if a meteorite just hit North… Continue reading
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Good and When Moral Distress becomes Fatal
In this writers home state 21,000 people could lose medicaid services thanks to the new federal legislation. It can’t be that different in other states. Forget red state and blue state and lets just think in terms of dead or… Continue reading
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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
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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
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Good and Dignity, the 7th, Last, and Bannister of All the Next Democracy’s Virtues
You need go no further than the dictionary get a grasp on the radical meaning of dignity but I think I like Wikipedia’s treatment of the word serves best; Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own… Continue reading
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Good, Freedom, Liberty, and the New “Bait and Switch”
The protagonist in a popular television series called Zero Day made a distinction between liberty and freedom. Because this writer had never really given those two words much thought at that level I went to the Oxford Dictionary to see… Continue reading
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Good, Competition, Capitalism, and the Pressure Points
These reflections arise from reading about the pressures on airline pilots, air traffic controllers, workers subject to ‘keystroke counts’ and other ‘Musklike” pressures being constantly introduced into our world of work. Humans love to compete as it brings out marvelous… Continue reading
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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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