Where We Hope To Land (and Where

Every Interpretation Is But An Introduction To Another Interpretation, And That Is How Talmud Pages Are Printed.

We Live In A World Of Communication, Everyone Gets Information About Everyone Else. There Is Universal Comparison And You Don't Just Compare Yourself With The People Next Door, You Compare Yourself To People All Over The World And With What Is Being Presented As The Decent, Proper And Dignified Life. It's The Crime Of Humiliation.

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

Jews Are No Longer Pressed And Obliged To Fight, Hide Or Deny Their Jewishness. What For? No One Actually Requires Today To Abandon The Idiosyncrasy Of Some Other Culture Or Ethnic Tradition. The Great Achievement Of This Last Period Is That We Have Been Slowly, Sometimes Reluctantly, Yet Steadily, Learning The Art Of Living With Differences.

We Have A Reversal Of A Longstanding Trend, From Rising Inequality Across Nations And Constant Or Declining Inequality Within Nations, To Declining Inequality Across Nations And Rising Inequality Within Them.