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.
B. W. POWEWe 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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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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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Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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