All The Skills Which I Have Acquired

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

Some Dozens Of Years Ago, There Was A Debate Conducted Between People Insisting That "this Loaf Of Bread Must Be Redistributed," And The Others Who Said "instead Of Worrying About Redistributing It, Cutting Differently, Let's Make It Bigger." A Third Possibility Was Not Imagined: That The Loaf May Be Shrinking. But It Is Now A Genuine Possibility. It Is Even Acting Upon Already, Like In The Case Of The American Invasion Of Afghanistan And Of Iraq In Order To Secure The Supply Of Petrol For The Americans Addicted To Gas-guzzling Cars.

Security Was The Demand Which Set In Motion Labour Movements In History; Trade Unions, Friendly Societies, Consumer Cooperatives Were All About Compensating For The Impotence Of Individual Resistance.

In Our World Of Rampant Individualisation, Relationships Are Mixed Blessings. They Vacillate Between A Sweet Dream And A Nightmare, And There Is No Telling When One Turns Into The Other.

Questioning The Ostensibly Unquestionable Premises Of Our Way Of Life Is Arguably The Most Urgent Of Services We Owe Our Fellow Humans And Ourselves.