"The elitist" we have to think differently today. Farther and deeper, reaching beyond the social, not referring the elitist to the social layer. The elitist - that is, the elitist, which requires our care and pleading for what is important and forgotten - would be founded on human discipline. It would be formulated outside of herd thinking, whether it is related to a larger or smaller group, leadership or not. The elitist - necessarily referred to the subject - would consist (1) in cultivating a responsible, undisciplined thought (2) while maintaining discipline in life. The source of elitism is man, not society.
"Return to oikology" is our imperative that tells us what we are obligated to do with home in times of homelessness, migration, and travelling. The domestic thinking can lead us to extension our thought of home and emplacement, entering the remoteness and openness. The idea of being off the beaten track brings our domestication and dwelling again. Serious thinking about home and locality shows anew the task that becomes our challenge. Oikology uncover a poverty of being attached to the nomadic thoughts. We recognize the house in a place off the beaten track - on the sidelines of the world, on the sidelines of discourses, on the sidelines of the official route of culture, on the sidelines promoted the mobility of people and things, but on the sidelines of propaganda of stability and familiarity. We are already so far removed to see the house again, but close enough not to lose the simplicity of home. Oikology leads us to the disquieting question: are you really convinced of that house so easily let you go into all the world?
The author deals with the problem of the place and friendship. The starting point is the advertisement of Japanese porcelain, in which the cup becomes a symbol of lifelong / undying / immortal friendship. Tokyo cup, as a heartwarming gift, leads the author to questions about the community, distance, permanence, transience, time and place. Donated items connect the purchase, friendship, travel, artefact and duration. Ceremonial objects intensify everyday life and open the world - including the orders of nature, social life and metaphysical existence.A cup of Noritake reveals the radical philosophy of friendship - is a gesture of restoring ties in the world in which we severed the bonds of friendship. It is a fragile suggestion to rebuild what interpersonal and to resume our understanding of time and space.