Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.
Mary DouglasReal 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.
Mary DouglasThe history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Mary Douglas