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Ottawa Citizen 8Saul 9

 

So instead of knowledge coming together into a great whole, knowledge has been broken up into tens of thousands of isolated corporations or specialist groups. It's meant two things. It's meant, first of all, that society loses all sense of direction, because if everything is separated into little groups that don't really talk to each otherin an honest manner, except to negotiate between each another for power, then there is no possibility to have any kind of directed conversation about society. The second thing is, of course, that it has been very, very bad for each of those areas. The fact of the matter is that sewers run next to autoroutes and hearts lie next to lungs.
-- John Ralston Saul. The End of Rationalism - An Interview with John Ralston Saul. [adapted from the public radio series "Insight & Outlook." It appeared in abbreviated form in the Ottawa Citizen, December 16, 2001.]
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