"Marxism became the dreamlike answer to a real need in
Western society, but any one of a handful of other dreams
might have done just as well. Walt Disney, for example, riding
in the front lines of mythology, converted America to a vision
of itself in which the citizen is a viewer, the beliefs are
cinematic assertions and the leaders are character actors. And
that is more relevant to real life than an imaginary ideology or
system--for example, Capitalism."
-----John Ralston Saul in Voltaire's Bastards
"Socrates was executed not for saying what
things were or should be, but for seeking
practical indications of where some reasonable
approximation of truth might be. He was
executed not for his megalomania or grandiose
propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly
doubting the absolute truths of others."
----- John Ralston Saul The Unconscious Civilization
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