The Task Is To Keep The Lost

What Is Happening Now Is That The Number Of People Who Are Not Strong Enough Or Do Not Feel Strong Enough To Decide To Live Without The Security Provided By The Community Or The State, Is Going Up.

Throughout Early Modernity There Were Very Strong Pressures On Jews To Assimilate. Assimilating Meant Cutting Your Ties With The Community Of Origin.

For The First Time In Living Memory, The Whole Class Of Graduates Faces A Future Of Crushing Debt, And A High Probability, Almost The Certainty, Of Ad Hoc, Temporary, Insecure And Part-time Work And Unpaid 'trainee' Pseudo-jobs Deceitfully Rebranded As 'practices' - All Considerably Below The Skills They Have Acquired And Eons Below The Level Of Their Expectations.

The Woe Of Mortality Makes Humans God-like. It Is Because We Know That We Must Die That We Are So Busy Making Life. It Is Because We Are Aware Of Mortality That We Preserve The Past And Create The Future. Mortality Is Ours Without Asking--but Immortality Is Something We Must Build Ourselves. Immortality Is Not A Mere Absence Of Death; It Is Defiance And Denial Of Death. It Is 'meaningful' Only Because There Is Death, That Implacable Reality Which Is To Be Defied.

Never Paint Epic Canvases During The Revolution, Because The Revolutionaries Will Tear Them Apart.