Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

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

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

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.

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.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.