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

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.

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

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

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

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