Happiness Needs One-upmanship.

I Am Not A Prophet; I Cannot Predict What Will Happen.

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.

I Was Leftwing, I Am Leftwing, And I Will Die Leftwing.

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.

As Long As We Say: "alright, It Is Truth For Me, And I Believe In It And I Am Ready To Fight For It, But I Accept That Others Have Different Beliefs - And So Let Me Have A Closer Look At What They Believe" - We Can Gain From Our Intercourse Thanks To Our Difference, Not Despite Our Difference.