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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

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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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Communication Culture Technology
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
It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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Ended Image Symbolism
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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Certainty Pathology Sign
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Battle Trojans War
No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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Ease Heart Path
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
Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Choices Delirium Democracy
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Listen Obvious Sound
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
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Calling Charisma Saint
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
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
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Gentle May Views
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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Consciousness Loneliness Rebellion
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

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