čīkstuļa pieraksti

"The individual is forced to mistrust the promises of rationality of (..) institutions. As a consequence, people are thrown back onto themselves, they are alienated from expert systems but have nothing else instead. Disembedding without embedding - this is the ironic-tragic
formula for this dimension of individualisation in world risk society. For example, responsibility for the decision on genetically modified foods and their unforeseeable, unknowable long-term consequences is ultimately dumped on the so-called “responsible consumer”. The appeal to “responsibility” is the cynicism with which the institutions whitewash their own failure."