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. 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. POWECertainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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. POWENo rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
B. W. POWEMay the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
B. W. POWEIt began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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. 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. POWEElectrical 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.
B. W. POWEThe Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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. 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. POWECharisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
B. W. POWEAlienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
B. W. POWEThere is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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