Pretensions To Moral Superiority Are Devastatingly Destructive.

Every Year The Progress Of Advanced Capitalist Society Makes Our Population Consist Of More And More Isolates. This Is Because Of The Infrastructure Of The Economy, Especially Electronic Communications.

Hierarchy Works Well In A Stable Environment.

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 Very Suggestive Approach. It Implies Two Conditions: A Set Of Ordered Relations And A Contrevention Of That Order. Dirt Then, Is Never A Unique, Isolated Event. Where There Is Dirt There Is A System. Dirt Is The By-product Of A Systematic Ordering And Classification Of Matter, In So Far As Ordering Involves Rejecting Inappropriate Elements.

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 Rituals And Music And Preaching, To Love Their Neighbors, Then They Would Put Jealousy And Frustration Aside?

The History Of The Church Of Rome Is A Constant Leakage Of Members Into Such Breakaway Cults, Which Go On Splitting.