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

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

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

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

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

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.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.