There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B. W. POWEThere is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B. W. POWECertainty is usually a sign of pathology.
B. W. POWEIf our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
B. W. POWEThe Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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. POWEWe 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.
B. W. POWECanada 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.
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. POWEThe origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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. POWEDemocracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWEMay the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
B. W. POWEIf you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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. POWEHere I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
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