If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
B. W. POWEAlienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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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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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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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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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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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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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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