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I'm Sure Putnam Is Right That There's Been A Decline In Certain Kinds Of Organizations Like Bowling Leagues. But People Participate In Communities In Other Ways.

Even If One Is Interested Only In One's Own Society, Which Is One's Prerogative, One Can Understand That Society Much Better By Comparing It With Others.

He Who Sups With The Devil Had Better Have A Long Spoon. The Devilry Of Modernity Has Its Own Magic: The [believer] Who Sups With It Will Find His Spoon Getting Shorter And Shorter--until That Last Supper In Which He Is Left Alone At The Table, With No Spoon At All And With An Empty Plate. The Devil, One May Guess, Will By Then Have Gone Away To More Interesting Company.

To Be Located In Society Means To Be At The Intersection Point Of Specific Social Forces. Commonly One Ignores These Forces One Also Knows That There Is Not An Awful Lot That One Can Do About This.

An Economy Oriented Toward Production For Market Exchange Provides The Optimal Conditions For Long-lasting And Ever-expanding Productive Capacity Based On Modern Technology.