Liquid Modernity: Are We Too Free? The Hidden Cost of Individualism
Details
This is NOT an online meeting but an in-person meeting.
Reading the book is not required.
During the book discussion the leader of the discussion presents the most interesting parts of the book. The great emphasis is placed on discussion.
Book Description
In Liquid Modernity, Zygmunt Bauman argues that we no longer live in a “solid” world of stable institutions, lifelong careers, fixed identities, and durable relationships. Instead, modern life has become fluid - flexible, unstable, and constantly shifting. Freedom has expanded, but so has insecurity.
This discussion explores what it means to live in a world where nothing is meant to last: work, love, community, even identity itself. Is this liquidity a liberation—or a quiet source of anxiety and loneliness?
Discussion Topics
- “Solid” vs. “liquid” modernity — what exactly changed?
- Individualization: freedom or forced self-responsibility?
- Relationships in a culture of disposability
- Consumerism as identity construction
- Precarious work and the collapse of long-term stability
- Can community exist in liquid conditions?