The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.