Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWE
Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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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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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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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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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.
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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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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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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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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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