"I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain."

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Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.

— Kenneth E. Boulding