Dumping Your 'Old World' View [10/06/06 ] Make no mistake, the world out there is changing before your eyes. You are witnessing the death rattle of the nation state and the ideas that support it - and cracks are starting to appear everywhere. (David MacGregor)

Love and Hate at First Sight [10/05/06 ] I've touched on the subject of this article in my others on individualism. It's about recognition, particularly that kind of recognition of people which is sometimes referred to as "intuition" or "first impressions." Most of us have had the experience of meeting someone, and after only the briefest of encounters, had a very distinct impression about the kind of person our new acquaintance is. While we are tempted to dismiss these, "first impressions," because we do not like to judge people unfairly, it is surprising how often they turn out to be correct. (Reginald Firehammer)