"Globalization, ecological problems, Islamic fundamentalism, and modernity are only some of the perspectives through which we can consider our contemporary world: in fact our experience of the contemporary life is hanging by a (thin) theoretical thread in conformity, with the individual becoming each time flexible (Sennet), new cosmopolite (Bauman), atomistic (Rifkin), supertechnologic (Castells), ecologist (Beck), democratic, and for this reason happy (Bell, Fukuyama)."