The Task For Sociology Is

Throughout Early Modernity There Were Very Strong Pressures On Jews To Assimilate. Assimilating Meant Cutting Your Ties With The Community Of Origin.

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

Our Bad Luck Is That Our Writing Is Linear, While We Think Circularly.

Some Dozens Of Years Ago, There Was A Debate Conducted Between People Insisting That "this Loaf Of Bread Must Be Redistributed," And The Others Who Said "instead Of Worrying About Redistributing It, Cutting Differently, Let's Make It Bigger." A Third Possibility Was Not Imagined: That The Loaf May Be Shrinking. But It Is Now A Genuine Possibility. It Is Even Acting Upon Already, Like In The Case Of The American Invasion Of Afghanistan And Of Iraq In Order To Secure The Supply Of Petrol For The Americans Addicted To Gas-guzzling Cars.

An Ideal And Flawless Freedom, "complete Freedom", Enabling Without Disabling, Is I Believe An Oxymoron In Metaphysics As Much As It Is An Unreachable Goal In Social Life.