Ulrich Beck Quotes
Ulrich Beck QuotesThe world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
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