. "Sociology."@en . "The Massey lectures"@en . . . . "Civilization."@en . . . "The Massy Lectures are the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's equivalent to the ABC's Boyer Lectures. Established in 1961, they are named in honour of Vincent Massey, former governor-general of Canada. In A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilisation, a ten-thousand year experiment we have ridden but seldom controlled."@en . . .