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As historian John Dower points out, the numbers of people forcibly displaced by war over the past 20 years is estimated by the UN to have risen by 75 per cent, from 37.3 million in 1996 to over 66 million today. __The total number of displaced people today is greater than at the end of WWII. Many of these people have been directly displaced by US and UK-led invasions in the Middle East.__ Suggesting that it is irrational to worry about this problem isn’t helpful – it certainly doesn’t help policy-makers to generate political will and resources to find the type of lasting settlement solutions reached post WWII, or to hold the US and UK to account for their role in people’s displacement.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
We are the product of our own intensities; the product of a constant balancing act that goes on between the ups and downs of everyday life and how we interpret that in order to impose on ourselves a sense of our own identity. We live a life of intensity, but such intensity is ultimately empty in that it can never provide the promise that appears to underpin it, and a life of exhaustion is the end product (see Garcia, 2018). The experience society perpetuates this process and as such, as Horkheimer and Adorno (1972) would no doubt have put it, the consumer is indeed forced to be satisfied with the menu.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
“When someone is searching,” said Siddhartha, “then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. __Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.__
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