“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) is a Polishsociologist. Since 1971, he has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-semiticHYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Polish_political_crisis” campaign.