The Nature of Post Nationalism and Rootless Power

I once heard that if a shark stops swimming it dies. The story goes that sharks have no ability to force water over their gills, aside from moving forward; so they are condemned to a life of endless swimming, never stopping to rest. This is striking and odd at first, but the lesson is obvious: any organism, institution, or family which stops moving forward inevitably stalls out and dies. We might not need to literally walk forward to keep our lungs flush with air, but a failure to provide fo...