Attempts To Tame The Wayward And Domesticate

Freedom Without Security Portends Chaos, Perpetual Anxiety And Fear.

"once There, Always There", Would Give You Less Freedom Than You Recently Enjoyed, But More Security. Security Not In The Sense Of Safety From Terrorists, Burglars, Or Pickpockets... But Security In The Sense Of Knowing Where You Are, Who You Are, On What Kind Of Future You Can Count, What Will Happen, Whether You Will Preserve Your Position In Society Or Whether You Will Be Degraded And Humiliated - This Sort Of Security. This Sort Of Security For Many, Many People - A Rising Number Of People - Looks At The Moment More Attractive Than More Freedom.

I Guess I Am Doomed To Remain An Outsider To The End, Lacking As I Am The Indispensable Qualities Of An Academic Insider: School Loyalty, Conformity To The Procedure, And Readiness To Obey By The School-endorsed Criteria Of Cohesion And Consistency.

There Are, By The Most Conservative Counting, Two Grave And Deeply Regrettable Collateral Victims Of The Peer-review Gruesome Stratagem: One Is The Daring Of Thought (wished-washed To The Lowest Common Denominator), And The Other Is The Individuality, As Well As The Responsibility, Of Editors (those Seeking Shelter Behind The Anonymity Of "peers", But In Fact Dissolved In It, In Many Cases Without A Trace).

There Is Less Pressure On Abandoning Native Communities: What For? There Is Nothing To Be Gained By It. On One Hand, There Are Plenty Tempting Opportunities Of Experimenting With Identities - Being One Kind Of Person Today And A Different The Next Day. On The Other Hand, There Is Little Pressure To Include The Ethnic Identity Or Religious Identity Into This Mechanism, Because Now Everybody Is In A Kind Of Diaspora Today.