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.
B. W. POWEThe Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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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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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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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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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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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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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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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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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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