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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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Choices Delirium Democracy
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
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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Dream Gold Last
It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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Ended Image Symbolism
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Calling Charisma Saint
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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Certainty Pathology Sign
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Gentle May Views

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