The Secret Of Every Durable

While A Few Poor Countries Are Catching Up With The Rich World, The Differences Between The Richest And Poorest Individuals Around The Globe Are Huge And Likely Growing.

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.

The Secret Of Every Durable ... Social System Is The Recasting Of 'functional Prerequisites' Into Behavioral Motives For Actors.

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.

The Risk Of The Holocaust Is Not That It Will Be Forgotten, But That It Will Be Embalmed And Surrounded By Monuments And Used To Absolve All Future Sins.