Museum of Human Relationships

I am learning some fascinating things about Austrians that go a long way to explaining some of the cultural mysteries here. For example in regard to formality. Austrians are proud of their position as #1 in complexity of etiquette. They have protocols for things I cannot even imagine. As an indication of this pride, among the university faculty alone there is a kind of pecking order- a holdover from Imperial days- that manifests in 300+ titles- conferred in a string before one's name- which apparently place each person specifically along that hierarchy. I can imagine how there could be 300 serial divisions of a yardstick, but with a collection of humans, that division is quite beyond me. But that's because I am American and I believe in the basic equality of people. I bet anything that this qualification alone would place me, were I to join the faculty- at the very bottom.

For years I've had vague dreams about making a Museum of Human Relationships to display relationships that history has knocked out of evolution as obsolete (like slavery for instance). Such things should be lost but not forgotten, say I. Austrian Imperial Pecking Order seems like a good candidate for inclusion.