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Argues that the rationalist political and social experiments of the Enlightenment have degenerated into societies dominated by technology and a crude code of managerial efficiency. These are societies enslaved by manufactured fashions and artificial heroes, divorced from natural human instinct.

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First Sentence

In moments of great passion, the mind tends to be flooded with a warm vision of the person in our arms.

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  1. John Ralston Saul (Author)
 

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