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

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

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

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

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.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?