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"Now I know that I've been blind," I interjected. "And you are right, it was just blindness against seeing the world scientifically. I hadn't realized that. I had fully agreed with Erica on an issue that turned out to be an aspect of poverty. And all this happened just a few hours earlier. Isn't it amazing how fast ones world can change? Erica was wrong on that issue, and neither of us could see this. Drawing a line across the path of progressive unfolding isn't the way to go."
"That's not important," said Helen. Helen pointed out, that countless people look to the past and moan. It took me decades to get to the point where I am now where the moaning stopped, and Peter, don't expect to glimpse in a few hours what took me a long time to come to terms with. Tomorrow you will likely have forgotten most of what we explored tonight. But some will remain. That is why it is important for you to have seen my landscape, the landscape in which I live. Maybe in some dark hour, when you most need it, a vista of it will come to mind. Or maybe you will be inspired by me to create your own landscape of the same color, step by step, year by year, and therein remember me. So it will be worthwhile for you, no matter what, that you have come here. In any case the old world will no longer seem as dark to you. I also, hopefully, have closed a lot of doors for you permanently, that society still celebrates, like those that Hobbes has opened. Many people look to the past, and their emptiness within, to justify fascism in some form, both in themselves and in the world. Many people in leading positions in government do this and are proud of it. Many of those find in their own 'poverty' an excuse to re-launch the antihuman atrocities that should have been long forgotten. The war-philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is being kept 'alive' in modern times, by the forces of empire for this purpose. Hobbes is therefore still admired by many leading people in today's world. The Hobbesian ideology has lingered on for this reason. Though he was just one of many such 'fascists, Hobbes came to be chosen as the State Philosopher of the British Empire, perhaps for his special zeal in fighting against Love. I predict that his door will be closed to you now forever. Hobbes is sometimes regarded as the father of the 20th Century geopolitics of the new Anglo/British Empire, that is presently aiming to become the World Empire. This means that his strong banning of Love from world-affairs all the way down into the smallest personal domain, hasn't ended by any means. But I predict you will never become a disciple of that. Instead you will fight this trend as I am fighting it. Many more wars will likely be fought under the old banner, unless of course, we kill each other more completely with nuclear weapons the next time around. But you will stand in the way of this train now, and maybe you will find the power in you some day, to stop it altogether. You might even make it possible to found a movement to banish Hobbes for all times to come. "The important thing is," said Helen, "that you keep on looking ahead. As world-historic persons we can learn from the past, but we must look ahead and embrace the future, and uplift the present for it. As world-historic persons we shape the future history of mankind. We have the potential to make real historic breakthroughs every day."
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