Madness Is No Madness When Shared.

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.

I Suspect That The Peer-review System Carries A Good Part Of Blame For The Fact That Something Like Sixty Percent Or More Of Journal Articles Are Never Quoted (which Means Leaving No Trace On Our Joint Scholarly Pursuits), And (in My Reception At Any Rate) The "learned Journals" (with A Few Miraculous Exceptions That Entail, Prominently, Tcs) Ooze Monumental Boredom.

In A Liquid Modern Life There Are No Permanent Bonds, And Any That We Take Up For A Time Must Be Tied Loosely So That They Can Be Untied Again, As Quickly And As Effortlessly As Possible, When Circumstances Change - As They Surely Will In Our Liquid Modern Society, Over And Over Again.

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".

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".