Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

We are already and will remain all in the same boat.

When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.

With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved.

Community is like a big family.

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.