To be social means to be qualified to communicate with other socially qualified beings, i.e. participate in the circulation of meaning. Asocial persons are thus those who are not qualified or are disqualified from social interaction. This is not the same a being anti-social, which involves the desire to detach oneself from social interaction, as do fugitives, criminals, ascetics and other fanatics. But fugitives, criminals and fanatics are still interesting from the point of view of the social: they are to be caught, punished or convinced of the superiority of social interaction and reintegrated in its transactions.