Inhaltsangabe1. The crisis of contemporary education between mixophilia and mixophobia 2. José Saramago:"There are ways of being happy that are simply hateful" 3. Gregory Bateson and his third level of education 4. From ballistic missiles to the smart ones: from closure of mind to "permanent revolution" 5. The hundred years oak trees have grown from ridiculously minute acorns 6. Looking for a genuine "cultural revolution" 7. Depravation is the cleverest strategy of deprivation 8. It takes but a few minutes and a couple of signatures to destroy what took thousands of brains and twice as many hands and lots of years to build 9. The youth as a disposal tip for the excesses of consumer industry 10. The effort to improve mutual understanding is a prolific source of human creativity 11. The unemployed may always play lotto, don't they? 12. Disability, abnormality and minority as a political problem: the examples by Wells and Saramago 13. Being indignant is not enough for swarm-like ephemeral political groupings 14. The riots of defective consumers and the never-ending minefields 15. Richard Sennett: "Informal, open-ended cooperation is how best to experience difference" 16. From the Lacanian "discourse of the capitalist" to the Baumanian "discourse of consumerism" 17. Zizek and Morin: does religion necessarily have a monotheistic nature? 18. If even Proust's pétite madeleine is exploited as the last resort for consumerism 19. On fuels, sparks and fires 20. On globalization coming of age