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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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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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Dream Gold Last
No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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Ease Heart Path
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
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Government Religious Voice
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
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Listen Obvious Sound
There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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Chasms Concern Seems
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
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
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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Democracy Economic Models Pay
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Battle Trojans War
It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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Ended Image Symbolism
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
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
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Country Ideas People
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
We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
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Cities Land Technology
Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Choices Delirium Democracy

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