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.

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

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

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

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.

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

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.