Relationships, Like Cars, Should Undergo Regular Services

Human Attention Tends To Be Focused On The Satisfactions Relationships Are Hoped To Bring, Precisely Because Somehow They Have Not Been Truly Satisfactory. And If They Do Satisfy, The Price Of This Satisfaction Has Often Been Found To Be Unacceptable.

I Suspect That One Of Capitalism's Crucial Assets Derives From The Fact That The Imagination Of Economists, Including Its Critics, Lags Well Behind Its Own Inventiveness, The Arbitrariness Of Its Undertaking And The Ruthlessness Of The Way In Which It Proceeds.

I Was Watching The Tv Broadcasts Interviewing People Stranded At Airports For Days On End, Losing Their Holidays, Their Important Business Meetings And The Long-awaited Ability To See Their Families... In Short, Suffering. No One Complained, Though! They Kept Repeating: We Are So Grateful For The Care Taken Of Our Safety, For Feeling. They Were Ready To Surrender A Good Deal Of Their Human Dignity, Individuality, Freedom Of Choice.

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.

Power, In A Nutshell, Is The Ability To Get Things Done, And Politics Is The Ability To Decide Which Things Need To Be Done.