The Proof Of My Jewishness

In A Consumer Society, People Wallow In Things, Fascinating, Enjoyable Things. If You Define Your Value By The Things You Acquire And Surround Yourself With, Being Excluded Is Humiliating.

Being Condemned By Fate To Perpetual Togetherness, We Better Make That Shared Fate Into Our Shared, Consciously And Gladly Embraced, Destiny.

Unlike 'real Relationships', 'virtual Relationships' Are Easy To Enter And To Exit. They Look Smart And Clean, Feel Easy To Use, When Compared With The Heavy, Slow-moving, Messy Real Stuff.

Marcus Aurelius Appoints Personal Character And Conscience The Ultimate Refuge Of Happiness-seekers: The Only Place Where Dreams Of Happiness, Doomed To Die Childless And Intestate Anywhere Else, Are Not Bound To Be Frustrated.

We Already Have Plenty Of Fundamentalism And Fundamental Sects Like For Instance Rabbi Schneerson And Chabad Lubavitch. They Feel More Secure Because They Are In The Warm, Caring/sharing Community. This Is The Difference Between Community (gemeinschaft) And What Ferdinand Tönnies Called Gesellschaft: A Kind Of Setting In Which You Have No Rights To Do Anything Unless You Pay For It, And No Right To Get Anything Unless You Prove That You Are 'credit Worthy'. In A Gemeinschaft, However, You Have A Place At The Table Guaranteed Whatever Happens.