Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

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

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

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

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

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