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I had occasion to be speaking again with Mark in early February, when he suddenly said that he had a delicate\/awkward matter to raise with me. Apparently there was a possibility that President Bush would attend the UN meeting scheduled for the end of May, and the UN desperately wanted him to be there. I had been told (I can surmise by whom, but it was never revealed) that if I were to attack the United States before that date, the president probably wouldn't come. You must understand that though I take myself overly seriously from time to time, it was a bit much to think that my words could deter the President of the UNited States. Nonetheless, Mark said to me (I think I'm capturing it with authentic accuracy), \"Stephen, I must ask you, no, I must plead with you, no, I must instruct you that you are not to attack U.S. policy before the meeting in May. I don't care what you do after that, but beforehand, you must refrain from criticism.\" I could scarce credit what I was hearing. I laughed again, and told Mark that it seemed to me that things were verging on the absurd. On the other hand, I also assured him that I had no immediate plans to go on the attack, and if I did, I'd let him know in advance and resign with appropriate dignity. I relate these surreal circumstances because they speak to an UNlovely pattern of Pavlovian obeisance to the UNited States. Apparently, criticism is permitted of the G8, Tony Blair's Commission on Africa, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the Government of South Africa, the Government of Zimbabwe, the King of Swaziland, and the United Nations itself -- all of whom this book excoriates from time to time -- but almost never the sacrosanct \"integrity\" of the United States of America. But that's only one small part of my postscript to these lectures. 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Race Against Time
Humanitarian Stephen Lewis describes how the world is falling desperately short of UN goals for reducing poverty, inequality, and mortality rates.
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The Ethical Imagination
Ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
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{"id":6819092004923,"title":"Designing Freedom","handle":"designing-freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003eDistinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded Tools of Modern Man, A Liberty Machine in Prototype, Science in the Service of Man, The Future That Can Be Demanded Now, The Free Man in a Cybernetic World. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDesigning Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:54-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:28:20-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Beer Stafford","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 1993-11-18","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1795,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249728892987,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887845475","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Designing Freedom - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1795,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887845475","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40249796296763,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848551","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Designing Freedom - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848551","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40249797705787,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896079","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Designing Freedom - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896079","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_28beee8c-f596-4343-9606-362306836f4f.jpg?v=1653883323"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_28beee8c-f596-4343-9606-362306836f4f.jpg?v=1653883323","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140968075323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":1123,"width":700,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_28beee8c-f596-4343-9606-362306836f4f.jpg?v=1653883323"},"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":1123,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_28beee8c-f596-4343-9606-362306836f4f.jpg?v=1653883323","width":700}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eDistinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded Tools of Modern Man, A Liberty Machine in Prototype, Science in the Service of Man, The Future That Can Be Demanded Now, The Free Man in a Cybernetic World. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDesigning Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Designing Freedom
In his 1973 CBC Massey Lectures, distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.
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The Unconscious Civilization
John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on democracy, and that increasingly it is conformist and corporatist.
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Does the 21st Century Belong to China?
A Munk Debate on the key geopolitical issue of the century: the rise of China.
