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@ THE UNCONSCIOUS CIVILIZATION John Ralston Saul The Massey Lectures Series The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by Massey College, intheUniversityofToronto,andCBC Radio. Theserieswas created inhonourofthe Right HonourableVincentMassey, former governor general of Canada, and was inaugurated in 1961 to enable distinguished authorities to communicate the results of original study or research on subjects of con- temporary interest. Thisbookcomprises the 1995 Massey Lectures, ''TheUn- consciousCivilization,''broadcastinNovember1995aspart of CBC Radio's Ideas series. The producer of the series was Philip Coulter; the executive producer was Bemie Lucht. John Ralston Saul John Ralston Saul is a distinguished Canadian writer and thinker. Voltaire's Bastards, his bestselling study of "the dic- tatorship of reason in the West," has been published innine countries, including Canada, the United States, England, France, Italy, Austria and Japan. Saul further developed his ideas in The Doubter's Compa—nion: A Dictionary ofAggressive Common Sense. His novels The Paradise Eater (winner of the Italian Premio Litterario Intemazionale), The Next Best — Thing, Baraka and The Birds ofPrey have also been pub- lished internationally. In 1994 he published a novel in French, De Si Bons Americains. Saul earned his doctorate at King's College,Universityof London, andhisB.A., inpolit- ical science, history and economics, at McGill University. Saul has been active in the Canadian Centre of Interna- tional PEN, serving as president in 1990-1992. @ Also byJohn Ralston Saul Nonfiction Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship ofReason in West A The Doubters Companion: Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense Fiction The Birds ofPrey Baraka, or The Lives, Fortunes and SacredHonor ofAnthony Smith TheNext Best Thing TheParadise Eater THE UNCONSCIOUS CIVILIZATION John Ralston Saul PENGUIN BOOKS Penguin BooksAustralia Ltd 487MaroondahHighway, POBox257 Ringwood, Victoria3134,Australia Penguin BooksLtd Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England VikingPenguin,ADivisionofPenguin BooksUSAInc. 375Hudson Street, NewYork, NewYork 10014, USA Penguin BooksCanada Limited 10AlcornAvenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd CnrRosedaleandAirborneRoads,Albany,Auckland, NewZealand FirstpublishedbyHouseofAnansiPressLimited (Canada) 1995 Thisedition publishedby PenguinBooksAustraliaLtd 1997 791086 Copyright©JohnRalstonSaul, 1997 All rightsreserved. Withoutlimiting therightsundercopyright reserved above,nopartofthispublication maybereproduced, stored inorintroduced intoa retrievalsystem, ortransmitted, in anyformor byany means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recordingor otherwise),withoutthepriorwrittenpermissionofboththecopyright ownerand theabovepublisherofthisbook. Printed andbound inAustraliabyAustralianPrintGroup, Maryborough,Victoria NationalLibraryofAustralia Cataloguing-in-Publicationdata Saul,JohnRalston. Theunconsciouscivilization. ISBN 0 140264647. 1. Corporatestate. 2. Individualism. I. Title. 330.1 For Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/unconsciouscivilOOjohn Contents I The Great Leap Backwards 1 II From Propaganda to Language 40 III From Corporatism to Democracy 76 IV From Managers and Speculators to Growth 117 V From Ideology Towards Equilibrium 158 Notes 197 Acknowledgements 207
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