The Rationality Of The Ruled Is Always

The Consumerist Culture Insists That Swearing Eternal Loyalty To Anything And Anybody Is Imprudent, Since In This World New Glittering Opportunities Crop Up Daily.

When People Think, Rightly Or Wrongly, That Marriage Is Forever, They Are Stimulated To Seek And Find A Resolution, A Modus Vivendi, Whenever They Quarrel.

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.

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".

We Are Already And Will Remain All In The Same Boat.