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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

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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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Corruption Ultimate Virtue
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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Certainty Pathology Sign
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
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
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Calling Charisma Saint
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Listen Obvious Sound
No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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Ease Heart Path
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
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
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
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Gentle May Views
Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Choices Delirium Democracy
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
It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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Ended Image Symbolism
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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Government Religious Voice

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