The Task Is To Keep

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

It Is Easy Now To Break The Vows. It Is Even Easier To Part Your Ways If Vows Haven't Been Taken.

The Question Of Identity Has Separated From The Issue Of 'assimilation', Having Lost Much Of Its Drama And Become, So To Speak, A Secular Problem.

For One To Be Free There Must Be At Least Two. Freedom Signifies A Social Relation, An Asymmetry Of Social Conditions: Essentially It Implies Social Difference--it Presumes And Implies The Presence Of Social Division. Some Can Be Free Only In So Far As There Is A Form Of Dependence They Can Aspire To Escape.

In "solid Modernity" Difference Was Tolerated As A Temporary Irritant Only, Expected To Disappear Tomorrow, When "those Aliens" Will Become Like Us. "living With Strangers" Was Therefore Not Something To Last And Did Not Call For Developing Appropriate Arts And Skills. Now, However, It Looks Like That Diasporic Context Of Our Living Will Not Go Away - It Will Be There Forever, So Learning How To Live With Strangers Day In, Day Out Without Abandoning My Own Strangeness Is High On The Agenda.