Entries Tagged as 'common good'

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

What Might America’s Fathers Say Now?

Imagine that the ideals and assumptions of the Founding Fathers could somehow take bodily form and visit America. How might this entity feel seeing the Republic collapsing from greed-driven special interest politics?

I doubt the entity would be shocked. After all, the Founding Fathers had anticipated (and tried to prevent) just such a thing. [...]

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Are We Finally Waking Up…or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another?

Full Disclosure: I think something deep and primal has changed in our cognitive depths, but it will take some time for the dramatic consequences of this change to work their way to the surface.

Something is happening in our collective mind-space, but what is it? Is it a mass awakening…or merely the [...]

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

We Deserve A Better Class Of People To Be Our Upper Class

Someone has to say it.

We deserve a better class of people to be our upper class.

Everything in nature has a purpose—so much so that things that do not serve a purpose do not last. So what is the purpose of the upper class?

There was a time when it [...]

Friday, November 7th, 2008

What’s common good got to do with it?

Of all the hopeful comments I heard following the election, something my son, Ty, said stood out: “People will now begin to reconsider what government is for.”
Good point. At a time when the old order has been exposed as a manipulative fraud and a new order has not yet taken form, there [...]