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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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Choices Delirium Democracy
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Gentle May Views
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
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Listen Obvious Sound
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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Country Fire Greed
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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Consciousness Loneliness Rebellion
Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
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Heart Justice Soul
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
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
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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Corruption Ultimate Virtue
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
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
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
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

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