"Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't"

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Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

John Ralston Saul

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