Quote Originally Posted by Martinus
Another thing, why is it so political?
Because it is a reference.

References are highly important in the collective unconscious. That's what makes peoples different. That kind of thing is part of a people's identity. You cannot deal with such things simply with reason - as it does'nt shake one's brain. It does shake one's unconscious.

Many are bathed soooooo deep in the imperial system that it simply went a part of them. I'm a metric boy, but god knows that if I was imperial, I wouldn't want to give up a part of myself.