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Democracy requires the kind of education that helps young people learn to lead themselves. This can be achieved only in the company…

"In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life." "You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It…

"There stands, my friend, in yonder pool An engine called the ducking-stool; By legal power commanded down The joy and terror of…

"Yes: death–or renewal! Either the state forever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with…

Power has to be insecure to be responsive. There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. Ralph Nader Civics Lesson:…

There will be scarcities of corn and squash during this katun and this will lead to great mortality. This was the katun…

"TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in…

"And hundreds of thousands of simple, kindly folk torn from their wives, mothers, and children, and with murderous weapons in their hands…

Other problems include the fact that this system rewards the least scrupulous behavior and penalizes community oriented behavior. It concentrates wealth in…