Where There Is Dirt There Is System.

It's Unlikely That The Organized Religions Will Get More Sectarian... Or Is It? I Am Not At All Sure.

Without The Letters Of Condolence, Telegrams Of Congratulations And Even Occasional Postcards, The Friendship Of A Separated Friend Is Not A Social Reality. It Has No Existence Without The Rites Of Friendship. Social Rituals Create A Reality Which Would Be Nothing Without Them.

If We Can Abstract Pathogenicity And Hygiene From Our Notion Of Dirt, We Are Left With The Old Definition Of Dirt As Matter Out Of Place. This Is A Very Suggestive Approach. It Implies Two Conditions: A Set Of Ordered Relations And A Contrevention Of That Order. Dirt Then, Is Never A Unique, Isolated Event. Where There Is Dirt There Is A System. Dirt Is The By-product Of A Systematic Ordering And Classification Of Matter, In So Far As Ordering Involves Rejecting Inappropriate Elements.

Institutions Have The Pathetic Megalomania Of The Computer Whose Whole Vision Of The World Is Its Own Program.

Pretensions To Moral Superiority Are Devastatingly Destructive.