Social Environment

The roles of art,

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. Emile Durkheim

Our whole social environment

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. Emile Durkheim

We cannot command Nature

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon

In a social environment

In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, ‘Whatever happened to love?’ Desmond Morris

We have this sacred

We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can’t really be informed, not the majority of themmost people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulationthey are working out their own patterns of … Read more

Some cultural phenomena bear

Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution. Daniel Dennett

The role of humankind

The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values…. Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life. Daisaku Ikeda

Today, the growers are

Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn’t know he’s past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost – and the time to account for past sins is approaching. Cesar Chavez

So I hear we

So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? –Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn’t mind. Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other … Read more