Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.