The UN, notwithstanding all of its flaws, is the one inclusive international institution.

Of course, the greatness of America s democracy should not hide its deep flaws and current dysfunction.

In face of economic failure or military defeat, their emperors turn out to be naked.

Another possibility is that the Europeans concluded that an FTT s political advantages outweigh its economic flaws.

Risks that really move architecture even with all its flaws, into a space which is much better that the ever again repeated hollowness of a ready made thing.

As humans, we are highly evolved to adjust to our surroundings we tend to adapt to a culture, well conceived or not, and lose sight of its failings.