This is knowledge reduced to ignorance. The more knowledge is limited to a single corner, the more ignorant the expert' And both 'Left' and 'Right' are different political configurations of self-interest. Saul is not overly hostile to the theories of the left or right, but in practice, he says, they can't avoid being dehumanizing. The individual has no other large organized mechanism that he can call his own . . . The individual's rights are guaranteed by law only to the extent that they are protected by the citizenry's exercise of their obligation to participate in society.
Rights are a protection from society.
Saul is enamoured by the Socratic notion of the individual as citizen. To combat the evils of corporatism we must revitalize citizen-based democracy. Citizens should control the thinking about 'goods' in their societies. Swallowing massive deceptions have produced an 'unconscious civilization'. The Unconscious Civilization is a kind of intellectual last chance for both young geniuses and old hedgehogs everywhere.