Zygmunt Bauman tried to settle for the metaphor of liquidity as the positive not negative but positive description of the kind of the world in which we live at the moment.
START 306 YOUTUBE YyyvCdR9MPg Liquidity
Why Liquidity? Well because liquid is uh notorious for for not being able to keep its shape unless it is forced artificially for a time being to be in a Container like now in this glass for example it will spill over leak sip it will change all the time it shape and that's exactly what our world around is like it is liquid we can't rely that when we go out for a for for a trip and come back the things will be as they were before they will be certainly changed one way or the other that's why I selected the pro the metaphor of liquidity to describe the distinction the distinctive feature of the society in which we live
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– but then the uh most uh haunting question for me was what does it mean to be in the state of liquidity is it a temporary irrit is it a transitory period uh things are not yet finally settled but they are going to settled they are going to settle they are going to acquire a new shape new system one system is finished but here is the prediction of another system emerging these are uh preliminary uh insights into the world to to come. That was one possibility.
7:03 – the other possibility was simply that we are in a state of Disorder and here uh from here any in in this condition everything can happen and doesn't can be really done now when I'm looking 50 years later on the on what I remember from uh debates and discussions and doubt 15 years old I come to conclusion and which I would like to suggest to you ladies and gentlemen that we live in a period of Interregnum.