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.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

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

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.