Madness Is No Madness When

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".

We Are Already And Will Remain All In The Same Boat.

Our Consumer-oriented Economy Wouldn't Survive Without Economic Growth. The Whole Mechanism Depends On Invention And Insinuation Of Novelties, Arousing New Wants, Seduction And Temptation. This Is The Problem We Face - Much More Than Recapitalizing The Banks. The Question Is: Is That Kind Of Economy Sustainable?

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.

In Our World Of Rampant Individualisation, Relationships Are Mixed Blessings. They Vacillate Between A Sweet Dream And A Nightmare, And There Is No Telling When One Turns Into The Other.