¶ Sovereignty (1)
RBF Definitions
What do you mean, sovereignty is dead?"
A. (RBF): "I am a student of large patterns. And as I look around I try to see what evolution is trying to do. We sometimes forget how important is the role of Universe. I have just been telling you that all the things that came in since I was born, automobiles, jet planes and the Queen Mary, radio, satellite communications, they were all unexpected, they were all surprises, and none of them were the result of conscious and deliberate development.
"I do not look on it policywise. I see it as a worldwide biospheric pattern of honey bees and chromosomes.
“The continental congress in Philadelphia has been so movingly described this morning, how people designed a democratic and marvelously representative government. But the congressman went back home on foot or horse. The city of Washington got one or two letters from Europe a month; and everyone knew what was said and went home and talked about it. Democracy flourished in a one-to-one correspondence of stimulation and response. With the advent of telegraph we lost all this;”
