The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

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

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.