Today is the 200th anniversary of Immanuel Kant's death. Of Kant, Joschka Fischer says (in an interview at Radio Deutsche Welle) that he is the most important philosopher of modernity--evidently, on grounds of his 'political' Perpetual Peace. In that work Kant outlines his idea for a league of nations. Fischer does not, however, suggest that the UN follows Kant's design. Interestingly, Kant suggested that one of the inhibiting conditions was the technical contraints on [global] communication. Speaking for myself, the most intriguing aspect of his philosophy is his grounding of ethics in aesthetics, as the very possibility of community. With respect to *this (awadian)* community, overcoming those constraints is, obviously, fundamental. Whether or not that same revolution bodes the possibility of perpetual peace...