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What Is Assumed To Be The Materialisation Of The Inner Truth Of The Self Is In Fact An Idealisation Of The Material - Objectified - Traces Of Consumer Choices.

In The Last Thirty Years We Have Gained Enormous Amount Of Freedom (everywhere, Except Perhaps In Places Like Burma Or North Korea), But We Lost Quite A Large Amount Of Security. Because Of All Sorts Of Reasons, Because Of Globalization Which Stripped The Nation State Of A Large Part Of Its Sovereignty Away, Because Of The Dismantling Of The So-called Welfare State. As A Result, People Feel Simultaneously Much Freer And Much More Insecure.

For The First Time In Living Memory, The Whole Class Of Graduates Faces A Future Of Crushing Debt, And A High Probability, Almost The Certainty, Of Ad Hoc, Temporary, Insecure And Part-time Work And Unpaid 'trainee' Pseudo-jobs Deceitfully Rebranded As 'practices' - All Considerably Below The Skills They Have Acquired And Eons Below The Level Of Their Expectations.

It Is More Or Less Clear That One Idea Which Should Emerge From The Crash, Whatever Happens With The Attempts To Save The Banks From Bankruptcy And People From Being Evicted From Their Homes, Is That This Kind Of Life Is Unsustainable. We Cannot Go On Like This... Something Must Be Done.

What Has Been Cut Apart Cannot Be Glued Back Together. Abandon All Hope Of Totality, Future As Well As Past, You Who Enter The World Of Fluid Modernity.