Marcus Aurelius Appoints Personal Character And Conscience

In A Nutshell: If Freedom Visualised By The Enlightenment And Demanded/promised By Marx Was Made To The Measure Of The Ideal Producer; The Market-promoted Freedom Is Designed With The Ideal Consumer In Mind; Neither Of The Two Is "more Genuine" Than The Other.

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.

Life Purpose May Be Shifted From Achieving A 'steady State' (an Equilibrium Between Desires And Plausibilities) To The Excitement Of Running After Novelties. In Other Words, Be Guided By New Desires, Not By Extant Needs.

In Our World Of Rampant Individualisation, Relationships Are Mixed Blessings. They Vacillate Between A Sweet Dream And A Nightmare, And There Is No Telling When One Turns Into The Other.

Ingeniously, Capitalism Discovered That The Economy May Be Moved Not By Satisfying Existing Needs, But By Creating New Ones.