You Judge A Society By The Decency

Security Was The Demand Which Set In Motion Labour Movements In History; Trade Unions, Friendly Societies, Consumer Cooperatives Were All About Compensating For The Impotence Of Individual Resistance.

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.

Freedom Without Security Portends Chaos, Perpetual Anxiety And Fear.

In Our World Of Rampant Individualisation, Relationships Are Mixed Blessings. They Vacillate Between A Sweet Dream And A Nightmare, And There Is No Telling When One Turns Into The Other.

Jews And Gypsies Were Well-nigh The Only Diasporas In 19th Century Europe. Now Go To London, It Is A Collection Of Diasporas.