The Value Of Other People Is That

The Descent Of Israel From The Morally Towering Position Of A 'light For The Nations' To The Lowest Of The Low And One Of The Last Relics Of Bygone Shameful Times Of Merciless Imperialism, Conquest, Exploitation Is On The Cards.

You Are A Stranger, I Am A Stranger, We All Remain Strangers, And Nevertheless We Can Like Or Even Love Each Other.

We Already Have Plenty Of Fundamentalism And Fundamental Sects Like For Instance Rabbi Schneerson And Chabad Lubavitch. They Feel More Secure Because They Are In The Warm, Caring/sharing Community. This Is The Difference Between Community (gemeinschaft) And What Ferdinand Tönnies Called Gesellschaft: A Kind Of Setting In Which You Have No Rights To Do Anything Unless You Pay For It, And No Right To Get Anything Unless You Prove That You Are 'credit Worthy'. In A Gemeinschaft, However, You Have A Place At The Table Guaranteed Whatever Happens.

In A World Of Global Dependencies With No Corresponding Global Polity And Few Tools Of Global Justice, The Rich Of The World Are Free To Pursue Their Own Interests While Paying No Attention To The Rest.

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.