If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.