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UN: moribund or what?


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I voted for the UN as obsolete, largely because the world has moved on dramatically since 1948, and therefore institutions need to do so to. Most individual states are quite different in their governmental structures, adapting either well or poorly to the changed times. Those that adapt poorly suffer. The UN sits there, with a significantly increased membership, in pretty much the same form as 1948 (China as a Security Council member is about the only real change). It has adapted poorly, but any organisation with a constitution such as it has, can have no mechanism for adaption, and is now in a sclerotic state. It has become a self perpetuating bureacracy, with no political (democratic or otherwise) controls. It needs significant reform to match the demands of the current world actuality. If it cannot reform itself (it appears it cannot), then some form of revolutionary action is required. It may be getting this now. Good.