Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic views, but I do not remember anybody being killed due to the tolerance of difference, to relativism; ethically relativism does not seem to be such an awful thing, really.
Zygmunt BaumanToday's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.
Zygmunt BaumanThe secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.
Zygmunt BaumanIf there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order of succession), it is the change in both the manifest and latent purpose behind the effort.
Zygmunt Bauman