Similarly, the idea of having consciousness without some kind of residual feeling is hard. Most of the time we re not having road rage and we re not in great ecstasy. But one has some residual mood and residual feeling. It s always there every moment you are awake. There are constant attempts to bring about world peace, yet they always fail.
Human beings are people who like to feel tribal.
They like to work in relatively small groups. I find it interesting to look at the European Union and how increasingly global it s becoming. I once had a Latvian student who, at about the time the EU was coming together strongly, held Latvian currency for the first time. He was so proud of this as the old Soviet Union was being disbanded. I found it interesting to compare his euphoria at the disbanding of the Soviet Union with Europe s efforts to become more centralised.