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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that…

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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop…
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases…
Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when…
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should…
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material…
Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the…
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who…
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things…
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It…
Madness is no madness when shared.
Happiness needs one-upmanship.
In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is…

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