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Our Consumer-oriented Economy Wouldn't Survive Without Economic Growth. The Whole Mechanism Depends On Invention And Insinuation Of Novelties, Arousing New Wants, Seduction And Temptation. This Is The Problem We Face - Much More Than Recapitalizing The Banks. The Question Is: Is That Kind Of Economy Sustainable?

Now People Are Worried Not About The Prospects Of Buying New Things, But About How To Pay For The Things They Bought Yesterday, A Year Ago Or Years Before. It Is, As Americans Like To Say, "a Wholly Different Kind Of Ball-game".

With Globalization And With A Lot Of Power Evaporating From The Nation-states, The Late-19th Century Established Hierarchies Of Importance, Or 'pecking Orders' Of Cultures, Presenting Assimilation As An Advancement Or Promotion, Dissolved.

The Question Of Identity Has Separated From The Issue Of 'assimilation', Having Lost Much Of Its Drama And Become, So To Speak, A Secular Problem.

Jews And Gypsies Were Well-nigh The Only Diasporas In 19th Century Europe. Now Go To London, It Is A Collection Of Diasporas.