The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

We don't need more stupid ideas.