Sovereignty grows out of the need to destroy the power of men to do evil. In a territory where men are free to do evil, absolute sovereignty is absolutely necessary. Sovereign power also establishes borders around communities to keep evil men from foreign territories out. Communities fight wars with one another. Winning communities grow larger. Empires or nation-states develop and find ways to unite their peoples with common languages and common religions. But in the global postmodern world, sovereign central governments of nation-states can no longer secure civil peace and produce just economic progress by remaining isolated. Nation-states such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria and Libya are being torn apart by various armed groups. Greece, Spain, and Portugal are in danger because their businesses and financial institutions can not produce the practices necessary to aid their governments to assure security by creating prosperity. Britain, France, Germany and Italy have complex and intelligent institutions of government best suited to the past. They all need an outside super government with the legal power to force them to govern themselves democratically and without corruption. They need an outside super army to secure their states militarily and a super central bank and a supreme court to backup their financial and judicial systems. No state that stands completely alone as in times past can function properly. A state must reach beyond the limits of its government’s sovereignty and equip itself with the advanced political, technological, financial, judicial and educational systems necessary to infiltrate intelligently into its native systems influences of all sorts penetrating it from all over the globe.
Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.
The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.
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