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The Unconscious Civilization (1995)

by John Ralston Saul

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Saul's arguments on the state of our society depend too much on inappropriate literary connections, and some of his facts (for instance, on Mexico) are wrong and biased. ( )
  jorgearanda | Nov 28, 2008 |
Our society, John Ralston Saul argues, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy.

Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations between these groups.

http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?pub_id=44 ( )
  gregsmith | Jul 12, 2006 |
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In this intellectual tour de force, Saul argues that the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling "corporatist" structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats as it promotes the segmentation of society into competing interest groups and ethnic blocks.

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