You Cannot Have A Cake And Eat

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

There Are, By The Most Conservative Counting, Two Grave And Deeply Regrettable Collateral Victims Of The Peer-review Gruesome Stratagem: One Is The Daring Of Thought (wished-washed To The Lowest Common Denominator), And The Other Is The Individuality, As Well As The Responsibility, Of Editors (those Seeking Shelter Behind The Anonymity Of "peers", But In Fact Dissolved In It, In Many Cases Without A Trace).

Avoid The Crowd, Avoid Mass Audiences, Keep Your Own Counsel, Which Is The Counsel Of Philosophy Of Wisdom You Can Acquire And Make Your Own.

For Intellectual Authority, The Appropriate Version Of Descartes 's Cogito Would Be Today: I Am Talked About, Therefore I Am.

There Is Less Pressure On Abandoning Native Communities: What For? There Is Nothing To Be Gained By It. On One Hand, There Are Plenty Tempting Opportunities Of Experimenting With Identities - Being One Kind Of Person Today And A Different The Next Day. On The Other Hand, There Is Little Pressure To Include The Ethnic Identity Or Religious Identity Into This Mechanism, Because Now Everybody Is In A Kind Of Diaspora Today.