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.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

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.

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.

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.