Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

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

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

I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

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