More from John Ralston Saul

  1. Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, …
  2. It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational elites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.
  3. Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prev…
  4. 'The recession is over.' This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclea…
  5. Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are pa…
  6. The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. B…
  7. In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in socie…
  8. [C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.

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