Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.