Those professional qualities can suddenly and unpredictably become utterly worthless, no matter how differentiated and well-grounded they might otherwise be. So high were the expectations regarding the paradigmatic change one found oneself in, that it was forgotten that this particular changing of the guard was by no means to be the last. From a rare reversal within the scientific ground model, the paradigmatic change turned out to be a permanent fluctuation from one standard to another. This instability structurally undermines the social position of all those who are directly related to the manufacture of knowledge. The labor relations of this industry are characterized by the deployment of temporary workers, freelance specialists, traveling visionaries, and wonder children uprooted before their prime.
People grow old too fast, because no one stays young forever.
All of this is not without reaction. Ortega y Gasset, the catechism, Saabs, marriage, Heidegger, a strict upbringing, buying a house, neckties and women's suits, zinc buckets, reading a good book. Similarly, the shift to the right is not a movement or struggle, but an expression of an individual form of protectionism. This artificial reliability is neutral and pale. It strives to keep all novelties, with their colorful aspect, at bay, out of resentment of all radical expression.