Are we now in a kind of early lock-in to nations and corporations and elite structures of inheritance, education and rewards? I sense a shift in atmosphere, rather than an easy to describe shift in consciousness and categories. The West seems riddled with lack of leadership. The past looms. Europe seems small and the US seems rapidly weakening and uneducated. Note that nation comes from natal, to be born, and hence is a racial/cultural term, and corporations based on corpus, body, also draws on the mythical and organic power of old concepts. Lots to think about .