Författaren skriver sedan vidare några sidor senare;"It becomes harder and harder to live out a life whitin the premodern condition of an undisturbed traditional society or even within the modern condition of a strong and well-organized belief system. All the major-league belief systems are still around, but all of them are in some kind of postmodern trouble: internal civil wars. Believers commuting in and out. Innovators creating strange new variations - free-market communism, feminist Christianity, New Age science. We are living in a new world, a world that does not know how to define itself by what it is, but only by what it has just-now ceased to be."
"This time is, for all its jangle, complexity and dissonance, a moment of great beauty an opportunity. We glimpse new ways of thinking about ourselves, new possibilities for coexisting with others - even profoundly different others. We begin to feel a sense of ownership of our worldviews and identities. My own feeling about this time is a hopeful one. I believe that such works as these [syftar på bokens innehåll], taken together, do more than describe the world in terms of what it has just now ceased to be. They also help us understand the world in terms of what it is struggling to become."
Jag tycker att det är mycket bra. Och hoppas nu innerligt att det är ok att citera sånt här? Antagligen inte I'm afraid.
Och i övrigt.
Önskar att jag kunde göra gott.
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