The Consumerist Culture Insists That Swearing Eternal

The Art Of Walking On Quicksand Is Still Beyond Me. What I Learned Is Only How Difficult This Art Is To Master And How Hard People Need To Struggle To Learn It.

At The Turn Of The Twenty-first Century, The Richest 5 Percent Of People Receive One-third Of Total Global Income, As Much As The Poorest 80 Percent.

The Bible Provides Unity Without Imposing Uniformity, Without Prohibiting Change; It Is A Standing Invitation To Thinking And To Take Responsibilities.

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?

We Already Have Plenty Of Fundamentalism And Fundamental Sects Like For Instance Rabbi Schneerson And Chabad Lubavitch. They Feel More Secure Because They Are In The Warm, Caring/sharing Community. This Is The Difference Between Community (gemeinschaft) And What Ferdinand Tönnies Called Gesellschaft: A Kind Of Setting In Which You Have No Rights To Do Anything Unless You Pay For It, And No Right To Get Anything Unless You Prove That You Are 'credit Worthy'. In A Gemeinschaft, However, You Have A Place At The Table Guaranteed Whatever Happens.