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N° 19 - The WORLD is...

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... always changing. Whatever we do, it is changing. Probably a little everyday. Sometimes a lot. One day, UK is in the EU, the next day, a small majority expects to have UK out of the EU...   No need to judge if it is right or wrong: people voted and this is democracy. Maybe some would have liked t o get a larger majority   (in one direction or the other) to make sure the choice represents its people. This is what I find amazing: 1>0 but also 2>1 The fact that democracy allows us to make a choice, thanks to this 1 vote that makes 1 group larger than the other.   This is just mathematics: 1<2 so if there are 3 persons and 2 say YES and 1 says NO , YES is the winner. In case you analyse the situation with a total of close to 80.000.000 inhabitants: 40.000.001 is also larger than 39.999.999. The difference in numbers is completely objective. We all agree that 1>0...   Sometimes I feel that those who are under the mathematical sign "inferior(<)" are clos