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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.

B. W. Powe

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 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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Country Ideas People
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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Add Canada Whole Picture
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Battle Trojans War
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Calling Charisma Saint
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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Dream Gold Last
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
Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Choices Delirium Democracy
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Listen Obvious Sound
It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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Ended Image Symbolism
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
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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Certainty Pathology Sign
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
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
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

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