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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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Certainty Pathology Sign
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
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
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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Add Canada Whole Picture
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
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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Dream Gold Last
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Listen Obvious Sound
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
Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
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Heart Justice Soul
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Gentle May Views
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
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
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 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
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

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