Meson2000 Conference Summary Lite *

This short contribution is a lite MESON2000 conference summary. As appropriate for the 600th anniversary of the Jagellonian University, it begins with a brief summary of the last 600 years of European history and its place in hadron physics. Next a " physicist chirality " order parameter PC is introduced. When applied to MESON2000 plenary speakers this order parameter illustrates the separation of hadron physicists into dis-joint communities. The individual plenary talks in MESON2000 are next sorted according to the subconference associated with each of the 36 plenary speakers. Finally, I conclude with a previously unreported Feynman story regarding the use of models in hadron physics. 1. Hadrons and the Last 600 Years of European History I was very happy to accept an invitation from H.Machner to give the summary talk for MESON2000. However I was quickly surprised and somewhat dismayed by many of the plenary talks, which discussed meson physics from viewpoints with which I was only vaguely familiar. A second theme of this meeting, beginning with Prof. Jarczek's welcoming talk, was the 600th anniversary of the refounding of the Jagellonian University, and its place in Polish and European history. Late one night, while puzzling over how to reduce this rather broad meeting to a few remarks, the random thought occurred to me that it would be easier to summarize the last 600 years of European history than to summarize this conference. And, like many wild ideas, this one would not go away. So, please bear with me through Fig.1.