But the point is that it did not evolve, not is it enforced by merely ' mutual consent on both sides'.
Britain is big enough that when railways began to operate, noon in London was not noon in Cardiff, and a national time keeping system was required. hence we run on GMT in Britain , not local noon time for any given town.
At some point in history ( not sure when) governments became neccessary. People without one of them eithr got swallowed up by conquering empires or quietly dissappeared.
like you said , the problem in Somalia is too many small governments - basically , one man and his warband against another guy with different ideas and a warband of his own.In effect, this is no national government what ever.
so, a government has to be a certain size to be effective- too big or too small is not gonna work. however, governments per se do not ' set people up to fail'. Only bad ones do that. There are just far too many of them about though.
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Date: 2/12/10 21:54 (UTC)Britain is big enough that when railways began to operate, noon in London was not noon in Cardiff, and a national time keeping system was required. hence we run on GMT in Britain , not local noon time for any given town.
At some point in history ( not sure when) governments became neccessary. People without one of them eithr got swallowed up by conquering empires or quietly dissappeared.
like you said , the problem in Somalia is too many small governments - basically , one man and his warband against another guy with different ideas and a warband of his own.In effect, this is no national government what ever.
so, a government has to be a certain size to be effective- too big or too small is not gonna work. however, governments per se do not ' set people up to fail'. Only bad ones do that. There are just far too many of them about though.