General Discussions

[Baggers]

If people didn't use race, religion etc., they would find something else. Paul Tillich once said that all institutions are inherently demonic, by which I think he means that all institutions are a mess, either at the start or some later point. And the reason they're a mess is because they have people in them, and people are a mess.

Beat me to it, Pauly. When you have the controlling creatures of a planet (us - humans), and those creatures are fundamentally imperfect (to be polite) you can only expect varying degrees of, as you note, 'mess.' We spend most of our lives in damage control.