We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich".

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

We are always confronted with choice.

I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings and the long-awaited ability to see their families... In short, suffering. No one complained, though! They kept repeating: we are so grateful for the care taken of our safety, for feeling. They were ready to surrender a good deal of their human dignity, individuality, freedom of choice.

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

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

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