It is the social worlds in which we exist that ultimately determine who we are and how we behave.
The age we are entering, in which we exist apart, is unlike any that has gone before.
"Perhaps without even knowing it they have influenced the climate in which we exist today," he continued.
Our administration wanders aimlessly, clinging to one tree or another with little understanding of where we have been and of the forest in which we exist.
Time is not money but "the element in which we exist," as Joyce Carol Oates put it more than two decades ago (in a relatively leisurely era).
As Alexander Rodnyansky, who is the head of CTC, one of Russia's major television networks, put it, "Television is the only reality in which we exist".
Mansfield thinks the biggest problem lies in "the willingness of people to recognise the parlous state in which we exist now – economic frailty overseen by someone who is not remotely in touch with it.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Royal Troon captain, Martin Cheyne, said of the policy review: "We care very much for the reputation of Royal Troon golf club and it is important the club, much like the wider game, reflects the modern society in which we exist".
In a statement after the vote, Dr Martin Cheyne, the Royal Troon's club captain, said: "We have said a number of times recently that it is important for golf clubs to reflect the society in which we exist and the modern world that looks to us.
Eveybody knows that our society now is under the scourge of pornography which wipes away the human face from the sexual encounter, leaving something that's not only unworthy of us but also brings us down from the world in which we exist as free beings into to the realm of polluted objects.
