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feeling of participation in something large or
something bigger.
Strangely enough, while the world becomes a small,
little environment, a little area, because of
electricity, it breaks up into even smaller groups,
tribes. The U.N. is a hopelessly impossible kind of
thing. It’s based on the hardware ideas of
communist or communal approaches to things: the
idea that we can sit around as reasonable people
and behave as if we were civilized right in a period
in which we’re dumping civilization and all of its
trappings. So the U.N. has got a lot of nostalgia
invested in it. It’s the way we should have been, the