We Have A Reversal Of

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.

Most Young People Today Prefer Just To Move In Together And Stay Together As Long, But No Longer, As Satisfaction Lasts.

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".

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

Power, In A Nutshell, Is The Ability To Get Things Done, And Politics Is The Ability To Decide Which Things Need To Be Done.