Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWECertainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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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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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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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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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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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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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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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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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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