Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear,
free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to
oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my
country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights,
1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's
worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown
Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's
rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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To day I received an e-mail with the quote "Everything you can
imagine is real" by Pablo Picasso. I received this e-mail as I was
pondering about the future. My first thought as I read this quote
was a restatement that our reality is our imagination, and therefore
we have to create our future with our imagination.
But
as I refer to the growing decadence of our political and business
leadership, and to the consequential concentration of material
wealth and political power, I realize how far-fetched is our vision
to create a future closer to our imagination and human nature. Our
political and business leaders are telling us that technological
advances must be harnessed by governments and bigger corporations so
that our future can be predicted and savings of money would occur
for all of us.
In Saskatchewan, for example, the
Saskatchewan Health Information Network (SHIN) was conceived as an
opportunity to have centralized medical records and save money and
lives; instead, we wasted money, we are losing our privacy, our
health care has become a gambling casino and people are risking
their lives as they become ill.
Bigger governments and bigger corporations
have destroyed free market capitalism, and now they are taking away
our freedom and imagination, as they continue to become bigger and
predict their wealth and our future.
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