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!

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

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

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

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

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

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.