Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWEDemocracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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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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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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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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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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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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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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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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