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Risk (n.) is bound up with control and controlling the future.
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Risk (n.) is bound up with the aspiration to control and particularly with the idea of controlling the future.
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Risk (n.) is characteristic of societies that are future-oriented... that see the future as a territory to be conquered. (i.e. Modern capitalism which is continuously calculating future profit and loss).
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Risk (n.) is future oriented while in the past, societies believed in past-oriented luck, or faith.
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Risk (n.) is part of modernity because modernity is not about fate, but about the future. It is to live after tradition where one lives a life without fate.