The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.

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.

Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.

It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.

As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta", function of the governments has become now to assure that it is the meetings between commodities and the consumers, and credit issuers and the borrowers, that regularly take place.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.