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

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

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

We don't need more stupid ideas.

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

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.

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.