"But for the deep things of living, we have a different platform," said Tony, "we have a platform that ignores every bit of insight and advancing perception that we have made throughout the ages. Consequently, the defective platform that we have chosen to plant our life on, moves us backwards, back towards the Dark Ages. The name of this regressive platform is tradition - the tradition of something that doesn't work, that was for political reasons designed not to work. And it never has worked," he added. "It has been a killer from the beginning, rich in demands enforced by the death penalty, but lean in affection, love, compassion, and so forth."

      Tony told the assembly that the platform of tradition suggests that what was right yesterday is still right today, and will be right tomorrow, so don't you dare and look at the world with open eyes. He suggested that if the sciences had adopted this platform we would still be at the Stone Age stage, as indeed we are socially.

      "The traditionalist's platform is a platform based on the myth of the supposed absoluteness of perceptions," said Tony. "That's a religious perception, imposed from the top down. It doesn't come from individual scientific and spiritual self-development. It is imposed from the top down. That's why we haven't moved away from the level of Stone Age men in the social domain, because the perceptions that control us have been deemed untouchable, unquestionable, absolute. If mankind's race against nuclear war is to be won, the traditionalist perception must be replaced with a constitutionalist approach of an unbridled self-developing perception. Unless this happens, the time will come when run-away technology will get the better of us and a nuclear war will terminate the human species. However, the answer lies not in stopping technology. It lies in the kind of moral progress that advances the image of man by leaps and bounds, based on the same scientific method that gave rise to our technological wonders. Ancient traditions should not be believed to be absolute. They should be tried against known principles, against profound discoveries, tested with absolute honesty, and be subjected to the demands of love and unity.

      Again, he scanned the auditorium in silence. There was a stirring.

      "The answer is tied to girl watching," he continued quietly. "Some say it is human nature that our moral perception evolves slowly, and that this slow growth is somehow linked to biological evolution and must be measured therefore in tens of thousands of years." He said this is nonsense, because deep in our hearts we already know most of the answers. We just haven't begun to acknowledge them, and to build on them. He said that it took us only three days at Alberto's pub to acknowledge to each other that the girls are exceptionally beautiful in Venezuela. He suggested that this was a kind of a record. He suggested that some people couldn't make such a public acknowledgment in a lifetime, fighting against tradition, especially if there are ladies in their company. He demanded, that instead of sitting back and letting evolution take place, we should get off our butts and formulate a constitution for ourselves based on our innermost recognition of what is real, of what is love, of what is a reflection of our boundless humanity.

      "And how does this relate to girl watching, you may ask?" he concluded. "Well, that's you're lab assignment for today."

      He grinned as he stepped down from the podium in a thunder of applause.



      As he walked away, a frail man appeared, dressed in white pants and a Hawaiian shirt. He intercepted Tony. He shook his hand and motioned him to come back with him to the podium.

      The man took the microphone, adjusted it lower and raised his hand to calm the assembly.

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