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“If the self is our object of worship and science our new priesthood, then we could say that sex is our liturgy and prayer rule.” P241

Using ancient Egypt and their gods/goddesses tied into the material-“This matters because societies built around a notion of the sacred have an immunity to the gravity of the purely physical.” P234

“Neither left nor right were equipped to understand what was going on:both,instead,would typically retreat to their historic comfort zones, with the left blaming ‘fascists’ and the right blaming ‘Marxists’ for the ongoing disintegration. The real source of the disintegration,though, was not partisan: it was the Machine.” P228