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.
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. POWEThreaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
B. W. POWEThere is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B. W. POWEWe 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.
B. W. POWEThe 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.
B. W. POWEA just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
B. W. POWECertainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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. POWEIf our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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. POWEThe origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
B. W. POWEHere I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
B. W. POWEDemocracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWEAlienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
B. W. POWEIt began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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.
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