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… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
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… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could… — B. W. Powe Copy Share
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,… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
