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?

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

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.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

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.

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