The 1995 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Unconscious Civilization"

Knowledge, the Enlightenment believed, could protect us from the follies of ideology. But John Ralston Saul maintains that "knowing" has not made us "conscious." Instead we have become increasingly passive, our society increasingly conformist. There are no easy solutions to this problem, Saul says, but change is still possible. John Ralston Saul is the author of the bestselling Voltaire's Bastards,...