This Awful Concept Of Underclass Is Really

I Suspect That One Of Capitalism's Crucial Assets Derives From The Fact That The Imagination Of Economists, Including Its Critics, Lags Well Behind Its Own Inventiveness, The Arbitrariness Of Its Undertaking And The Ruthlessness Of The Way In Which It Proceeds.

Once Upon A Time There Were The Pampas In Argentina, That People Could Treat As "empty Lands" And Where They Could Run Away From Their Problems From Problem-ridden Homes. That Eventuality Is No Longer Available.

It Is So True That In Liquid Modernity Freedom Was, So To Speak, Let Off The Leash, And For A Quite A Number Of Years The Freedom Of Choice Was "in Principle" Unlimited. One Result Was The Weakening Of Inter-human Bonds, Particularly Inherited Bonds, And The Counterfactual Assumption That Individuals Must And Can Fend For Themselves.

The Bible Unites Its Interpreters As A Shared Focus Of Attention, But It Does Not Demand Consensus. On The Contrary, It Invites And Prods Us To Make Responsible Choices, To Take Responsibility For The Choices That We Have Made... It Was Always Like That, And Our Holy Scripture Grows Over The Centuries, Gets Thicker And Thicker, With More Texts Around, Which Need/have To Be Looked Into, Referred To, Considered.

Once We Realize That The Strangers Are Here Forever And Won't Go Away, Then, Like Husband And Wife In The Old-style Marriage, We Would Try To Find A Way Of Living Together Peacefully And With Mutual Benefit. The Sooner We Understand That In A Globalized World The Diasporic Nature Of Cohabitation Is Never Likely To End, That It Will Always Be With Us, I Believe Such Modus Vivendi Will Be Found.