The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

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.

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

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

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.

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

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.