Occupation: Poet Birth: March 23, 1955
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily for….
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes..
It began in images and it ended in symbolism..
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what demo….
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 pond….
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational….
Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors'….
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….
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer..
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue..
There must be engagement: there must be protest..
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology..
No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others..
There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson..
A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals..
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen..
Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the h….
Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture ….
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it..
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness..
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle..