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Chapter 18 - Night ShadowsAt this point Olive stopped our walking and pointed to a faint light in the distance over the forest. She said that the ice-cream place is located where the light is, farther down the river and across the forest. "It won't take us more than an hour to get there," she added. The faint light in the distance that we were aiming for looked to me like a perfect metaphor for the human journey before us, and the countless footsteps it would involve. I drew Olive's attention to it. "Before any of that can happen, Peter, we have to change ourselves as human beings," Olive responded. She suddenly began to laugh. "Isn't it ironic, Peter, that I had to learn to appreciate music in order to discover what an economy is that accomplishes these necessary achievements, and what our humanity is all about? An economy isn't primarily a physical thing, Peter. It's primarily a structure of intent. The intent shapes everything. If the intent reflects the principle of the Second Renaissance, the Principle of the Advantage of the Other, then the outcome will correspond with that intent and the resulting economy will take us towards a brand New World with a prosperity in civilization that has not yet been seen on this planet. If, inversely, the intent is to create a liberal environment for stealing from one-another, like the one that we already have, then society will destroy itself in the process and we'll get nowhere. So it is again the future that determines the present." I began to laugh. "The present imperial intent appears to be to let the world disintegrate into poverty, insanity, and to let it wipe itself out in imperial wars for dominance over the remaining scraps that are left in the primitive world. That's already happening, isn't it? The Oil Wars have already begun. If we don't change course they will soon be expanded into vicious wars over mineral resources and wars over food resources." "Your Anglo/American liberal system of greed-based fascism, which runs much of the world today, assures that the stealing by force will escalate until the coming food wars will wipe out much of mankind," said Olive. I began to laugh again. "That's already happening," I interjected. "The majority of the global food production and distribution is already privately owned by the imperial cartels. They already determine who eats and who is starving to death. If the present course isn't altered mankind will meet the return of the Ice Age with empty hands and empty hearts as an inwardly empty society that is essentially already dead as human beings. Then the subsequent physical dying won't alter anything fundamentally." "That won't happen," said Olive. "The future will determine that there'll be a change in the present. If the intent of society reflects the principle of the Second Renaissance, the Principle of the Advantage of the Other, then the focus is on universal human development and the outcome will reflect that intent in the form of created riches for society. That, all by itself, would bring the present on track which what is needed for the future. No miracles are involved here," she said. "That's love-based economics," I interjected. "No, Peter, that's the principle of economics," said Olive. "Love-based economics is the principle of economics. There exists only one principle of economics and that is love-based economics. In music there is only one principle of harmony possible, which may have many expressions, but there is only one principle. The same is true for economics, Peter. The principle of economics is love-based economics in its countless expressions. There exists no other principle of economics, and consequently no other economic process. All other processes, such a financial looting and slavery-based stealing, result in poverty and the social and physical collapse of society. But that's not economics. That's insanity." || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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