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.
B. W. POWEAlienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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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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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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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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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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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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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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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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