This is a blog for understanding more deeply and wrestling with the inherent conflicts and principles that are present whenever two or more people live together.
This is a blog intended to expand social awareness and
encourage deeper reflection on the nature of how people live together in
communities and nations. This enterprise
naturally plunges us into the nature and forces of politics and economics.
Politics is herein broadly defined as the way a group of people make decisions for the whole. Economics is broadly defined as how resources get shared.
Politics is herein broadly defined as the way a group of people make decisions for the whole. Economics is broadly defined as how resources get shared.
Articles on this site are not aimed toward pushing for the
election of any individual candidate, office holder, or party. Rather, they are aimed at making the readers
go beyond one’s individual political leanings and ponder the values, harms, benefits,
and costs of the principles and approaches being used to further social
decision-making. Our hope is you’ll be able to better sort out the how’s why’s
and what’s of your own political stands.
Basic questions we address here will include:
- What’s in the social contract we have with one another?
- How do the needs of the many help the need of the individual?
- What is the role of government in one’s personal life?
- What role do social institutions play (or should they play) in improving our social connections?
- What is democracy and what direction is it going?
- What roles does nationalism play in our global society?
- Does tribalism serve any good purpose?
- What’s in democracy for the minority? Or, if majority rules what does society do with the minority?
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