No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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.
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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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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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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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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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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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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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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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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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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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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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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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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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