The Descent Of Israel From The Morally

Everybody Is In Trouble, Including The Up-and-coming Economic Miracles Of China, Brazil Or India.

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.

What Is Happening Now Is That The Number Of People Who Are Not Strong Enough Or Do Not Feel Strong Enough To Decide To Live Without The Security Provided By The Community Or The State, Is Going Up.

Lev (léon) Shestov, A Russian Jew Who Later Became A French Jew And Even Converted To Catholicism, Defined God Not By His Power To Create The Laws Of Universe, But His Ability To Break Them At Will - The Capacity For Miracles. God Could Cancel The Past! For Instance, God Could Decide Retrospectively, That Socrates Was Never Poisoned... Assimilation Demanded A Miracle: That You Stop Having Been Somebody Else Before... But Only God Can Do It.

Questioning The Ostensibly Unquestionable Premises Of Our Way Of Life Is Arguably The Most Urgent Of Services We Owe Our Fellow Humans And Ourselves.