Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
Barbara EhrenreichAs anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
Barbara EhrenreichUpscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.
Barbara EhrenreichNatural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich