At The Turn Of The

Indeed, I Did Not Truly "belong" To Any School, Order, Intellectual Camaraderie Or Clique; I Did Not Apply For Admission To Any Of Them, Let Alone Did Much To Deserve An Invitation; Nor Would I Be Listed By Any Of Them - At Least Listed Unqualifiedly - As "one Of Us".

In A Nutshell: If Freedom Visualised By The Enlightenment And Demanded/promised By Marx Was Made To The Measure Of The Ideal Producer; The Market-promoted Freedom Is Designed With The Ideal Consumer In Mind; Neither Of The Two Is "more Genuine" Than The Other.

It Is So True That In Liquid Modernity Freedom Was, So To Speak, Let Off The Leash, And For A Quite A Number Of Years The Freedom Of Choice Was "in Principle" Unlimited. One Result Was The Weakening Of Inter-human Bonds, Particularly Inherited Bonds, And The Counterfactual Assumption That Individuals Must And Can Fend For Themselves.

For The First Time In Living Memory, The Whole Class Of Graduates Faces A Future Of Crushing Debt, And A High Probability, Almost The Certainty, Of Ad Hoc, Temporary, Insecure And Part-time Work And Unpaid 'trainee' Pseudo-jobs Deceitfully Rebranded As 'practices' - All Considerably Below The Skills They Have Acquired And Eons Below The Level Of Their Expectations.

The Bible Unites Its Interpreters As A Shared Focus Of Attention, But It Does Not Demand Consensus. On The Contrary, It Invites And Prods Us To Make Responsible Choices, To Take Responsibility For The Choices That We Have Made... It Was Always Like That, And Our Holy Scripture Grows Over The Centuries, Gets Thicker And Thicker, With More Texts Around, Which Need/have To Be Looked Into, Referred To, Considered.