The Redefinition of Purpose
A group is created to serve a purpose. Then the purpose weakens, is fulfilled, or is subverted. If the institution...
Read Article The Redefinition of the Soul
The soul has not disappeared. It has been renamed. Conscience, guilt, repentance, courage, beauty, longing, and moral choice are being...
Read Article The Redefinition of the Body
The body once pointed toward reality, limits, sex, health, strength, mortality, and consequence. Now it is often treated as material...
Read Article Children: Manufactured Consumers
The manufactured consumer is not born by accident. Children can be trained to expect reward without production, esteem without competence,...
Read Article The Redefinition of the Child
A child was once understood as a developing person, a soul in formation, a son or daughter entrusted first to...
Read Article The Redefinition of Responsibility
Responsibility once meant answerability, duty, ownership of conduct, and the courage to repair what was ours. Now it is often...
Read Article The Redefinition of Authority
Authority has not disappeared. It has been transferred from earned responsibility, competence, and truthfulness to credential, position, institutional approval, and...
Read Article The Redefinition of Compassion
Real compassion does not confuse dignity with denial. It sees suffering without erasing responsibility and helps people rise. False compassion...
Read Article The Redefinition of Harm
Real harm exists. That is exactly why the word must not be inflated until it covers discomfort, disagreement, correction, offense,...
Read Article The Redefinition of Man
by Richard P. Weigand I am angry! We are being redefined in someone else’s image, not our own. Man has...
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