One needs to be something of a surrealist to appreciate them. But our appreciation is more than erotic, aesthetic, or spiritual. Lemonade Ocean Fourier was amazing. It's about time he was re-discovered again. To quote Fourier out of context is to betray him.
Passion draws humanity into association just as gravity draws celestial bodies into orbital systems.
The phalanstery is a little solar system revolving around the central fire of the passions. It's been jokingly said of him that the only sin in his system is eating lunch alone. Everything else is at best a sort of representation.