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.
Mary DouglasInstitutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.
Mary DouglasWhere there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.
Mary Douglas