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The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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Consciousness Loneliness Rebellion
Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
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Canada Practice Work Out
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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Corruption Ultimate Virtue
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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Certainty Pathology Sign
A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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Defined Goal Spectacular
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Battle Trojans War
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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Dream Gold Last
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.
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Communication Culture Technology
Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors’ rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
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Country Fire Greed
No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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Ease Heart Path
It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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Ended Image Symbolism
Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Choices Delirium Democracy
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Calling Charisma Saint
Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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Party Political Vision
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
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Party Reality White
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Listen Obvious Sound

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

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