As Long As Being A Stranger And

Middle Class People, The Bourgeoisie, They Are Also Feeling Frightened At The Moment. Some Fear Losing Their Fortunes; Some Go Bankrupt; Some Are Thinking About Suicide. They Don't Know If They Will Retain The Beautiful House That They Bought, Or What Will Happen To The Five Family Cars.

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.

Unlike 'real Relationships', 'virtual Relationships' Are Easy To Enter And To Exit. They Look Smart And Clean, Feel Easy To Use, When Compared With The Heavy, Slow-moving, Messy Real Stuff.

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.

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.