Life Purpose May Be Shifted From Achieving

Once Upon A Time There Were The Pampas In Argentina, That People Could Treat As "empty Lands" And Where They Could Run Away From Their Problems From Problem-ridden Homes. That Eventuality Is No Longer Available.

In A Liquid Modern Life There Are No Permanent Bonds, And Any That We Take Up For A Time Must Be Tied Loosely So That They Can Be Untied Again, As Quickly And As Effortlessly As Possible, When Circumstances Change - As They Surely Will In Our Liquid Modern Society, Over And Over Again.

An Ideal And Flawless Freedom, "complete Freedom", Enabling Without Disabling, Is I Believe An Oxymoron In Metaphysics As Much As It Is An Unreachable Goal In Social Life.

The Tragedy Is What - Given The 'right Circumstances,' - Normal Decent Folks, Like You And Me, Will Do. This Is What Makes Me Worry Whenever Looking On The Road That Israel Entered And Shows No Intention Of Leaving.

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.