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. POWEIf our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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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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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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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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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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