It is time for Moammar Gadhafi to realize that his "Third Universal Theory" was a dysfunctional type of government that functioned like a social "pressure cooker." Now that cooker has blown its lid off, and Libya is making its turn toward the "Standard Universal Theory" - popular consent. After all, the Greek historian Herodotus predicted that 2.500 years ago: "Tyrants and despots don't last forever," he said. But Gadhafi's egomania became so over-bloated during his unchallenged 42 years of rule that he has become delusional. Now he is living in a state of complete disbelief, and he cannot understand that his despotic rule is evaporating under the boiling anger of his people. Nikos Retsos, retired professor