Couple things

1. Why would an egalitarian society breed discontent? The problem in conservatism is entitlement and refusal to bend one's way of life for the good of the community. Therefore if a leader calls for sacrifice from a member in order to contribute to the community (taxes, e.g.) then that member will rebel on the basis that he disagrees with his individual freedoms being violated. A system that promotes individual freedom over the public/communal good will breed this race of individuals who is resolutely opposed to individual sacrifice over the public good; or, they have their own conception of public (I don't want my tax money funding abortions or going to any gay groups, but I will support my money going to the military or to anti-immigration groups) that is opposed to the leader's conception of public. So even the most egalitarian society will have to ask someone to make a sacrifice of some sort, and that sacrifice will go to benefit "others" and those others may be people he does not want to see benefit, especially at his expense. Thus we see the germs of discontent. And I'm mostly looking at this from a leftist point of view (considering the working class people recruited by the military in Z, or the recent anti-gay, anti-integration uprisings in Serbia) as it is the conservative-minded who conceptualize themselves more rigidly as cohesive groups unwilling to compromise. We need a good definition of communal good that excludes racists and terrorists, i.e. that does not recognize their rights! We can of course use Habermasian discourse, or participatory exercizes emphasizing common values and mutual responsibilities. I would say that the germs of discontent from people who want to oppose communitarian good are valid only if the way of life that is being denied to them is not "harmful" to others, a metric that I cannot define right now.

2. What about the information seeking habits of the mystically minded? This is a massive group, and I'm defining it broadly to include Christians seeking to hear the voice of God, psychedelic people seeking to take trips, Buddhists deep in meditation to erode the conception of self, new agers holding a seance to contact the dead, and so on. In our discussion yesterday, we talked about outlying information-seeking habits: pornography, piracy, hacking, drug users - as these are all counterculture, they are wrought with slightly more risk. Mysticism too is often counterculture - people seeking a mindstate that is at union with the divine or at least alternative consciousnesses. What does this "group" do to search for information? What sources do they seek?