When self-evident is lost, gods, nations, flags, borders, armies, laws, and prisons are born.
We are “condemned” to admit that there have never been periods in the historical becoming of human communities in which the majority of their members did not display behaviors that could only mildly be called light-mindedness and confusion — in their literal sense, madness and irrationality. A principal characteristic of such behavior is disobedience to … Περισσότερα