On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 4:07:57 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > Switzerland (where I live now) has such little cultural diversity, and > the government does such a good job of generally keeping the bad guys > out that most spheres of life have a sort of blind trust. You can get > on a train and almost always no one will check your ticket; or you can > order something on the Internet and it will be shipped to you along > with a bill, and you have thirty days to pay it at a bank or post > office.
Not to worry. This system will be brought crashing down. Pools of "order" in chaos are possible but only chaos is permanent. In the 1990s my relatives who lived in the US (visiting India in the middle of the monsoon and naively calling it "summer") used to curse me as if I was responsible for the need to be at the airport two hours before an international flight. I was told "Hey you know in Atlanta I don't even have to enetr the airport - my bags are checked in even before I enter. All I need to do is be in the airport 15 minutes in advance." That lasted till September 11 2001 In an earlier era, the UK used to be like the description of Sitzerland above. Until Pakistan was discovered. shiv
