I think the most important thing to realise is that the older chaps are institutionalised. They see institutions as the arbiters of power and that is where the fear lies with some people because the comfort of a belief in an institution. Every grain of comfort holds the seed of fear. Suffice to say, decentralisation has the momentum, like a tide encroaching on the sandcastles (institutions) that have been built on the beach. Has it all been planned this way, well, it wouldn't be called a plan-et, if it hadn't?