"Prize-winning author Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly under the sway of group identities and emotions and believe structures that tolerate no question or dissent. In a forthright attack on inhumanity, Lessing calls for individuals to rise above societal constraint in order to build a better world."

Contents:

When in the Future They Look Back on Us
You are Damned, We Are Saved
Switching Off to See "Dallas"
Group Minds
Laboratories of Social Change

Audio excerpts:

• Part 1: "I think when people look back at this time..."
  
• Part 2: "Everyone knows that at such times..."

• Also, see the 15 April 1996 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Program,
  "A World of IDEAS"

• Also, an hour from her lecture at the CBC web site.

Also see the book:

• Prisons We Choose to Live Inside - British Edition
  
• Prisons We Choose to Live Inside - American edition