The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight l... by Zygmunt Bauman

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

Zygmunt Bauman

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I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic insider: school loyalty, conformity to the procedure, and readiness to obey by the school-endorsed criteria of cohesion and consistency.

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I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen. by Zygmunt Bauman

I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.

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It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save the banks from bankruptcy and people from being evicted from their homes, is that this kind of life is unsustainable. We cannot go on like this... something must be done.

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A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

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Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

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Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr. Castoriadis - to change humanity?" He answered: "No, God forbid, I only want humanity to change itself, as it has done so many times in the past." I would be inclined to answer the same way.

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Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

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Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after novelties. In other words, be guided by new desires, not by extant needs.

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The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

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