One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -