The individual has been allowed out of his socially constructed cage. That, at least, is the contemporary myth. What is not clear, however, is what that liberation has to do with the fulfullment of individualism. The lessons of history seem relatively clear. Societies on the rise are simple, unadorned and relatively uncompromising. Those on the decline are given to open-mindedness, self-indulgence and the baroque.


Voltaire's Bastards (1992)

John Ralston Saul Quotes

The individual has been allowed out of his socially constructed cage. That, at least, is the contemporary myth. What is not clear, however, is what...

The individual has been allowed out of his socially constructed cage. That, at least, is the contemporary myth. What is not clear, however, is what...

The individual has been allowed out of his socially constructed cage. That, at least, is the contemporary myth. What is not clear, however, is what...

The individual has been allowed out of his socially constructed cage. That, at least, is the contemporary myth. What is not clear, however, is what...