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httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zA-0y0Tywlw<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephen Harper yesterday announced he will only take four questions from the national news media per day — a national media he sequestered behind a fence forty feet away. He’s also backed off on his challenge to debate Michael Ignatieff one on one. <\/em><\/p>\n

Frye\u2019s comments on liberalism<\/a> are very much in the social democratic vein of John Stuart Mill. I am reminded of another phrase Stephen Harper is throwing about: \u201creal Canadians,\u201d though I guess both words should be lit up with capitals as \u201cReal Canadians,\u201d he is so clearly hypostatizing the term in an insidious and McCarthyistic way. The next thing you know he\u2019ll be using the phrase \u201canti-Canadian\u201d (if he hasn\u2019t already). As Frye makes clear in this excerpt, there are no real Canadians or Canadian identity in that sense: there are only individuals, and society, in its most genuine form, is an expression of the individuals in it, who in turn are what the society is for. In The Double Vision<\/em>, Frye asks: \u201cWhat is the difference between the spiritual aspect of primary concerns and the secondary or ideological concerns just mentioned?\u201d He answers this way:<\/p>\n

I think the difference is expressed in two types of society, one\u00a0primitive and the other mature. A primitive or embryonic society\u00a0is one in which the individual is thought of as primarily a\u00a0function of the social group. In all such societies a hierarchical\u00a0structure of authority has to be set up to ensure that the\u00a0individual does not get too far out of line. A mature society, in\u00a0contrast, understands that its primary aim is to develop a\u00a0genuine individuality in its members. In a fully mature society\u00a0the structure of authority becomes a function of the individuals\u00a0within it, all of them, without distinctions of sex, class, or race,\u00a0living, loving, thinking, and producing with a sense of space\u00a0around them. Throughout history practically all societies have\u00a0been primitive ones in our present sense: a greater maturity and\u00a0a genuine concern for the individual peeps out occasionally, but\u00a0is normally smothered as society collapses back again into its\u00a0primitive form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think there is little doubt about what kind of society Stephen Harper has in store for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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