which make me a socialist

• From Within the Context of No Context by George W.S. Trow ("an extremely weird book famous among weirdos that was published in 1980" ~IOZ?):
  • "MEMBERSHIP: The middle distance fell away, so the grids (from small to large) that had supported the middle distance fell into disuse and ceased to be understandable. Two grids remained. The grid of the two hundred million and the grid of intimacy. Everything else fell into disuse. There was a national life—a shimmer of national life—and intimate life. The distance between these two grids was very great. The distance was very frightening. People did not want to measure it."
• From Wendell Berry's "The Unsettling of America":
  • "By now the
    
    revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution had imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat."