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"So it all becomes a moral question then," Steve.
"Competent living is a moral question, Peter. Our responsibility as human beings extends forward in time even past our own children, to our children's children, and their children. We have to flood the whole horizon with our love, fully backed up with deeds, starting now. All of that becomes critical for meeting the Ice Age challenge. As I said we are entering a new geometry, and that covers all fields, not just politics and economics. It extents into physics, science, our humanity, and our love, even time. In real terms it's always been the human way to extend our love to embrace future generations. Only now that becomes imperative. Competent living has become imperative."
"Sylvia and I don't even have any children," I said quietly.
"Neither do we, Pete, but that doesn't change anything. All children are our children, the children of our common humanity."
"Ushi and I have explored this in Cozumel to great depth, Steve. Did she tell you about it?"
Steve nodded. "That's the point, Peter. We are not heading that way. Instead of heading that way and regarding all children of our universal humanity, as 'our children,' and this with the same care we would devote our personal child, we stand still and allow ourselves to be doomed. For the vast task before us to be accomplished, we have to create a world of super-intense universal wealth. However, instead of doing that, we are heading in the direction of a zero-wealth disaster, Pete. I suggest, that instead of kissing our children and their children goodbye, we should kiss the notion of privatized financial wealth goodbye, including the 'my property' syndrome that has become the chief counterproductive, counter-economic, counter-humanist, fascist element that ever was, that robs society of its humanity."
"Right now," said Steve, "the illusion of financial wealth can still be maintained by the manipulators, through increased stealing, and evermore daring emergency measures, such as printing more money to cover the deficits in the dying system. In the flair-out zone however, when the financial illusions and the collapsing physical reality become evermore widely separated from each other, which we may reach in a decade or two, the fundamental lye, which rules the world today, built on stolen wealth, will fall apart. Unfortunately, if the trend is not reversed, society will fall apart with it. By then, when the physical collapse is in progress, it may be too late to turn the ship around towards the needed Ice Age Renaissance. It's physically impossible to build a grand renaissance on barren ground, and in short order."
Steve pointed out, that the ongoing physical collapse, and the collapse of the so-called financial wealth, are by their nature so tightly interlocked that both systems will disintegrate simultaneously, with consequences that cannot be imagined, and he added that the consequences would be worse if society fell in this collapse onto barren ground. "If you treat the physical and the financial elements of an economy, which are elements of a single principle, in isolation, and apply different principles for each, then the whole thing that you create that way, eventually disintegrates into nothing, like a soap bubble pops," said Steve. He suggested that every competent scientist should know this.
I agreed. "We know this," I said. "Nor does the apparent lack of understanding in the world, alter the principle of society's inseparable unity. Our failure in perception doesn't change the nature of our humanity," I said. "What we, that is you and I, understand, everybody is able to understand."
"Of course it doesn't change the underlying principle, Pete. Still, society can't be lax about it. We are all in the same boat together. We can't afford to loose the ship. The people in Germany found this out the hard way under Hitler. Their collective insanity, no matter who created it, was eventually reflected in their collective tragedy. Millions of people that where shouting proudly, Heil Hitler, ended up bleeding to death in the ditches of Russia. Some of them may have recognized that Hitler was criminally insane, but they have said to themselves, this doesn't effect me, I can work around that. Well, they couldn't work around the principle they ignored, and escape the loss of its effect. Universal tragedies occur when people loose their focus on the Principle of Universal Love and drift into utopian dreaming, where nothing is real."
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