You Judge A Society By

Freedom Is The Slogan Which Speaks To The Ears Of People Who Feel Strong Enough To Manage On Their Own Using Their Own Resources, Who Can Do Without Dependency Because They Can Do Without Others Caring For Them.

I Worry About Younger Generations Who Were Born To View Their Country Trampling On Humanity Of Everyone That Comes In Its Way, As The 'normal State Of Affairs" - Because They Knew No Other. We Know How Easy It Is To Shed, Under Such Circumstances, The Thin And Frail Veneer Of Civilization, Not To Mention The Moral Standards Of Which The Jews Were Presumed To Be The World's Teachers.

We Have Found Ourselves In The Period Of "interregnum": The Old Works No More, The New Is Not Yet Born. But The Awareness That Without It Being Born We Are All Marked For Demise, Is Already Much Alive, As Is The Awareness That The Hard Nut We Must Urgently Crack Is Not The Presence Of "too Many Poor", But "too Many Rich".

In The Last Thirty Years We Have Gained Enormous Amount Of Freedom (everywhere, Except Perhaps In Places Like Burma Or North Korea), But We Lost Quite A Large Amount Of Security. Because Of All Sorts Of Reasons, Because Of Globalization Which Stripped The Nation State Of A Large Part Of Its Sovereignty Away, Because Of The Dismantling Of The So-called Welfare State. As A Result, People Feel Simultaneously Much Freer And Much More Insecure.

Partnerships Are Increasingly Seen Through The Prism Of Promises And Expectations, And As A Kind Of Product For Consumers: Satisfaction On The Spot, And If Not Fully Satisfied, Return The Product To The Shop Or Replace It With A New And Improved One! You Don't, After All, Stick To Your Car, Or Computer, Or Ipod, When Better Ones Appear.