"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.

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

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.

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

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

We don't need more stupid ideas.

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