28 April 2016 - progress 2

Another thing we’ve been doing for thousands of years is organizing ourselves into ever-larger affiliation groups. First there were hunter-gatherer bands, later cities supported by agriculture, and today we’ve made it all the way to overwhelmingly big nation-states, an arrangement so stable that, just like all the arrangements before it, we imagine it will last forever. That lack of imagination is why the European Union is so feeble. Well, someday we’ll achieve the new world order, and Europe still has a chance to lead the way. It would take only one more war.