CBC Massey Lectures and Adrienne Clarkson

Adrienne Clarkson: The ancient Greek ideals about citizen-centred democracy that Adrienne Clarkson repeatedly cites in Belonging , the book version of this years CBC Massey Lectures, sound so much more uplifting than the contentious, coarsened values we have grown used to in 2014. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. But democracy has always been messy, as the Greek historian Thucydides made clear when he wasnt putting phrases in Pericless mouth that can still be deployed to soothe CBC audiences. Demagogues go with the turf, rhetoric trumps rationality, bullies abound, and when everyone has a voice, consensus is a strained and temporary illusion. The diversity that we, like Pericles, claim to prize necessarily includes people we cant stand and ideas we dont want to hear and The distance between Periclean Athens and Ford Nation is not as huge as some would have you think. Adrienne Clarkson commemorates contributions of Canadian soldier (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.