If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
B. W. POWEIf you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
B. W. POWEDemocracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWEWe 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.
B. W. POWEThere is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B. W. POWEEach 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.
B. W. POWENo rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
B. W. POWEIt began in images and it ended in symbolism.
B. W. POWEWe 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.
B. W. POWEFollowers 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.
B. W. POWEThreaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
B. W. POWEA just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
B. W. POWEThe 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.
B. W. POWECharisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
B. W. POWEIf our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
B. W. POWEThe 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.
B. W. POWEElectrical 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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