Brief von Karola Erdmann (anonymisiert) aus Dresden vom 16. Mai 1982 an das Fernsehen der DDR, Sendereihe Prisma Wir diskutieren das Problem des Wegwerfens von Brot schon seit einiger Zeit und wollen die Ursachen erforschen. Ich möchte deshalb Ihnen folgende Begebenheit erzählen.
Historically, modernization is the process of change towards those types of social, economic and political systems that have developed in western Europe and North America from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth and have then spread to other European countries and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[...]
Our age is preeminently the age of great cities. Babylon and Thebes, Carthage and Rome, were great cities, but the world has never been so covered with cities as at the present time. [...] [p. 1] Yes, cities, and their resources, must soon become, in a greater degree than ever, the acknowledged wealth and power of nations.[...]
''What I envy you is your liberty," observed M. de Bellegarde, „your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you. I live," he added with a sigh, „beneath the eyes of my admirable mother." [...]
Die psychologische Grundlage, auf der der Typus großstädtischer Individualitäten sich erhebt, ist die Steigerung des Nervenlebens, die aus dem raschen und ununterbrochenen Wechsel äußerer und innerer Eindrücke hervorgeht. [...]