If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

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

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

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.

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.