Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. Powe
The 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.
places solitude people
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
war
We 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.
technology thetimes time
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.
thetimes time
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
places dreams thetimes time
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.
vision culture tradition history
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.
society
A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
leadership management society
Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
key principles conscience mind self light
Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
work beauty
Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
mind
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
politics virtues
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
ability
choice travel
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.
nations products
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