Whenever governments adopt a moral tone – as opposed to an ethical one – you know something is wrong.
technologies come and go. Economic structures evolve and change. Society adjusts. But democratic basics persist in spite of the Tofflers, Gingrich and the chorus of corporate voices.(III – From Corporatism to Democracy)
In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at best a moral code and at worst social etiquette.
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.(V – From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they’re an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it’s the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the ‘Net’ doesn’t become the site for technological book burning.
Freedom – an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.