The Underground

The world, according to little r, is made up of connecting lines; no single line is more important than the other; and it would be hard to say if the lines radiate outwards or point inwards. For the Sufis such distinctions do not count; what is of prime importance, however, is to remember the colours.

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"Who thrives in a state of anarchy? The warlord, the impostor, the speculator, the jester if he is lucky enough to find a protector..but not the citizen."

One wonders if Dahrendorf will be proved right after all: the growth of right-wing parties/sentiments in Europe, for example; the way people view Singapore/ Dubai/Qatar as the future; and the growth of fundamentalism as a response to the loss of security, "family values", and the open-endedness of globalization?