Ascmjk@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/20/2002 7:53:58 AM Central Daylight Time,
> RISKYBIZ9@aol.com writes:
>
> What nation is closest to your ideal and why?
>
>
> Now there is a question I'd like everyone on the list to answer. (And if
> the USA is your choice for number one, also list number two)
>
> Jon
Vatican City. It is closest to my ideal in that its official raison
d'etre is spiritual advancement, and because it has no military power
(so I would not have chosen it prior to 1870, when it still ran the
Papal States). It remains a long way from my ideal, of course, in that
it is dominated by a set of outdated static patterns (though Vatican II
did improve things a bit), but at least it is focused in the right
direction, as Western societies are, by and large, not.
- Scott
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