Yeah, "we need a new religion"!!! Have you read The Guru Papers by Kramer & Alstad? A great book on authoritarianism. Made me think long and hard about how you have a community in the modern age. It definitely won't be like the one we came from, it is time for a leap forward. Oddly enough, LJ is one of the more supportive communities that I have in my life these days. That is kind of sad to me.....but hey, I'll take what I can get in the way of intelligent open discourse about the stuff that matters to all of us.