It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

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

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

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