You Judge A Society By The Decency

In A Consumer Society, People Wallow In Things, Fascinating, Enjoyable Things. If You Define Your Value By The Things You Acquire And Surround Yourself With, Being Excluded Is Humiliating.

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

Where We Hope To Land (and Where We Do Land, Though Only For A Fleeting Moment, Enough For Tired Wings To Catch The Wind Anew) Is A 'there' Which We Thought Of Little And Knew Of Even Less.

While A Few Poor Countries Are Catching Up With The Rich World, The Differences Between The Richest And Poorest Individuals Around The Globe Are Huge And Likely Growing.

Civilisation, The Orderly World In Which We Live, Is Frail. We Are Skating On Thin Ice. There Is A Fear Of A Collective Disaster. Terrorism, Genocide, Flu, Tsunamis.