Zygmunt Bauman

What is wrong with the society we live in, said Cornelius Castoriadis, is that it stopped questioning itself.

point is, however, that contemporary society has given to the ‘hospitality to critique’ an entirely new sense and has invented a way to accommodate critical thought and action while remaining immune to the consequences of that accommodation, and so emerging unaffected and unscathed – reinforced rather than weakened – from the tests and trials of the open-house policy.

Fulfilment is always in the future, and achievements lose their attraction and satisfying potential at the moment of their attainment, if not before.