the responsibility for resolving the quandaries generated by vexingly volatile and constantly changing circumstances is shifted onto the shoulders of individuals – who are now expected to be ‘free choosers’ and to bear in full the
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“a young American with a moderate level of education expects to change jobs at least eleven times during his or her working life – and the pace and frequency of change are almost certain to go on growing before the working life of the present generation is over.”
― Liquid Modernity
― Liquid Modernity

“Flexibility’ is the slogan of the day, and when applied to the labour market it augurs an end to the ‘job as we know it’, announcing instead the advent of work on short-term contracts, rolling contracts or no contracts, positions with no in-built security but with the ‘until further notice’ clause.”
― Liquid Modernity
― Liquid Modernity

“the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”
― Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche
― Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

“But as soon as he has outgrown whatever local form of religion he was born to—as soon as this religion can no longer embrace his life in all its fullness—then the psyche becomes something in its own right which cannot be dealt with by the measures of the Church alone.”
― Modern Man in Search of a Soul
― Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Living under liquid modern conditions can be compared to walking in a minefield: everyone knows an explosion might happen at any moment and in any place, but no one knows when the moment will come and where the place will be.”
― Liquid Modernity
― Liquid Modernity
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