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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (28292)	1/31/2003 9:56:38 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The institutions are behind their times. They move too slowly. We are surrounded by artifacts of old. Things that for all practical purpose have lost their meaning: Universities? 1.000 years old. And we depend on those type of institutions for learning!!! Amazing but very few people contest this. Why? Because they find change -any change- painful. Religion institutions? 4.000 years old. No wonder we see N. Ireland people in a procession across a Protestant district causing a conflict. No wonder we see this James Bond state at the throats of the Arabs the same way they did 4000 years ago!!! This is anachronisms clashing with the modern society. Our institutions, made for an agricultural society, are the cause of most of the trouble. And they don't evolve slowly and steadily apace with human progress. They hold there, like a tectonic plate, and then release the energy in a earthquake-like jolt. Those jolts are called war. Look to the sixties in the US and in some parts of Europe as an example of people getting rid of the ropes they discovered themselves had tied up around themselves. Then there is this dead man walking institution, this evolution of the tribe, called the nation-state. This is a very dangerous anachronism! We should get rid of this institution before it create a catastrophe that send us back to the dark ages. But people love it just for its symbolic value. They love postal stamps, national anthems, people in uniform, colored piece of cloth, a.k.a flags, and patches of different color in maps named countries' boundaries, people like visas and passports!!! They even love their languages as something they should be proud as part of the national heritage! Look to those queens and kings in Europe. Am I the only one that find them ridiculous? Apparently, yes. And them there is this time bomb created by Bismarck, retirement, But that is another story :-)