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

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

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

If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

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