Not only is the current jumble of international rules and protectionist habits a mess, it propels countries and airlines into interim arrangements like "open skies" deals and alliances as ways of mitigating the legacies of a different age in air travel, but without dealing with the basic challenge of modernisation.Regrettably, any global change is likely to be made at the speed of the slowest.
Thomas Seale, chairman of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry, says that even though his business is pan-European, it is held back by a jumble of national rules and taxes and by a lack of competition among distributors, most of which are banks.
It had only been under intense public pressure after the 2011 uprising, particularly from families of the estimated 866 civilians killed in street violence, that the chief state prosecutor, a Mubarak appointee, agreed to file a hasty jumble of cases against the man who ruled Egypt for 30 years.
There are no simple rules for turning a jumble of numbers, hypotheses, and hunches into a clearly argued scientific paper.
Besides rhyming, the class might write tongue twisters, practice spelling rules or make as many words as possible from a jumble of letters.
Other rules have the opposite effect: seed them with a random jumble of cells and, after a few iterations, they begin generating complex order.
The original ten are a self-serving jumble of the Almighty's insecurities ("Thou shall have no other gods before me") and oddly specific rules about who you can and can't bear false witness against.
For voters who spent decades – even lifetimes – trying to understand the rules for elections in California, the last four years of a new system have been a jarring jumble of candidates and choices.
Or a jumble of broken glass.
