The human body is always treated as an image of society..

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment..

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand ritu….

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they sta….

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power..

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between….

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another v….

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program..

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat..

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization..

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure ….

Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social r….

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, a….

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, ….

If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a v….

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are da….

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what y….

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter..

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive..

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements..

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too..