There Is Less Pressure On Abandoning Native

The Inequality Between The World's Individuals Is Staggering.

I Suspect That The Peer-review System Carries A Good Part Of Blame For The Fact That Something Like Sixty Percent Or More Of Journal Articles Are Never Quoted (which Means Leaving No Trace On Our Joint Scholarly Pursuits), And (in My Reception At Any Rate) The "learned Journals" (with A Few Miraculous Exceptions That Entail, Prominently, Tcs) Ooze Monumental Boredom.

Being Condemned By Fate To Perpetual Togetherness, We Better Make That Shared Fate Into Our Shared, Consciously And Gladly Embraced, Destiny.

If You Look Back On The History Of The 20th Century, The 19th Century Or Even To The Ancien Régime Of The 18th, You Will See That First People Rebelled Against The Order Of The Things Because Of Lack Of Liberty, And Demanded More Freedom. And When They Got More Freedom, They Got Frightened, And They Desired More Security For A Change. After A While, They Started Complaining, Although More Secure, They Also Become More Dependent And Rule-bound.

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.