Happiness Needs One-upmanship.

We Live In A Globalising World. That Means That All Of Us, Consciously Or Not, Depend On Each Other. Whatever We Do Or Refrain From Doing Affects The Lives Of People Who Live In Places We'll Never Visit.

When Opting Out From Partnership Is So Easy, Every Minor Disagreement Is Perceived As A Major Catastrophe And Irreparable Disaster.

We Already Have Plenty Of Fundamentalism And Fundamental Sects Like For Instance Rabbi Schneerson And Chabad Lubavitch. They Feel More Secure Because They Are In The Warm, Caring/sharing Community. This Is The Difference Between Community (gemeinschaft) And What Ferdinand Tönnies Called Gesellschaft: A Kind Of Setting In Which You Have No Rights To Do Anything Unless You Pay For It, And No Right To Get Anything Unless You Prove That You Are 'credit Worthy'. In A Gemeinschaft, However, You Have A Place At The Table Guaranteed Whatever Happens.

The Problem Of Insufficient Security Was, Until Quite Recently, A Matter Of A Minority; Now It Is Becoming Very Quickly A Majority Matter. That Is A Major Change.

Why Do I Write Books? Why Do I Think? Why Should I Be Passionate? Because Things Could Be Different, They Could Be Made Better.