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AMORALITY   A quality admired and rewarded in modern organizations, where it is referred to through metaphors such as professionalism and efficiency.
     Amorality is corporatist wisdom. It is one of the terms which highlights the confusion in society between what is officially taught as a value and what is actually rewarded by the structure.
     Immorality is doing wrong of our own volition. Amorality is doing it because a structure or an organization expects us to do it. Amorality is thus worse than immorality because it involves denying our responsibility and therefore our existence as anything more than an animal.
– John Ralston Saul, The Doubter’s Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

ANSWERS   A mechanism for avoiding questions.
     This might be called obsessional avoidance or a manic syndrome. It is based on the belief that the possession of an education – particularly if it leads to professional or expert status and, above all, if it involves some responsibility or status and, above all, if it involves some responsibility or power – carries with it an obligation to provide the answer to every question posed in your area of knowledge. This has become much more than the opiate of the rational elites. It may be the West’s most serious addiction.
     Time is of the essence in this process. An inability to provide the answer immediately is a professional fault. The availability of unlimited facts can produce an equally unlimited number of absolute answers in most areas. Memory is not highly regarded. Right answers which turn out to be wrong are simply replaced by a new formula. The result of these sequential truths is an assertive or declarative society which admires neither reflection nor doubt and has difficulty with the idea that to most questions there are many answers, none of them absolute and few of them satisfactory except in a limited way.
– John Ralston Saul, The Doubter’s Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

ECONOMICS   The romance of truth through measurement.
 ….Economic truth has replaced such earlier truths as an all-powerful God, and a natural Social Contract. Economics are the new religious core of public policy. But what evidence has been produced to prove this natural right to primacy over other values, methods and activities?
     The answer usually given is that economic activity determines the success or failure of a society. It follows that economists are the priests whose necessary expertise will make it possible to maximise the value of this activity. But economic activity is less a cause than an effect – of geographical and climatic necessity, family and wider social structures, the balance between freedom and order, the ability of society to unleash the imagination, and the weakness or strength of neighbours. If anything, the importance given to economics over the last quarter-century has interfered with prosperity. The more we concentrate on it, the less money we make.
– John Ralston Saul, The Doubter’s Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense