“Civilization, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.”

 Zygmunt Bauman (87 y/o and born 19 November 1925 who is a Polish sociologist.  Since 1971, he has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign.