Our Bad Luck Is That Our Writing

The Problem Of Insufficient Security Was, Until Quite Recently, A Matter Of A Minority; Now It Is Becoming Very Quickly A Majority Matter. That Is A Major Change.

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".

Madness Is No Madness When Shared.

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.

In A World Of Global Dependencies With No Corresponding Global Polity And Few Tools Of Global Justice, The Rich Of The World Are Free To Pursue Their Own Interests While Paying No Attention To The Rest.