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"Our friend is beautiful," he said. "He has boldly challenged centuries of false traditions, but he has not gone far enough. He has taken only one step where he should have gone a mile. I'm a constitutionalist at heart, myself. But consider this. Is any new constitution that I forge for myself really different from a tradition, or is it just tradition in another form? Think carefully on this one. The instant a constitution is formulated it becomes automatically a tradition that I willingly follow, because I have created it. This then, becomes a highly advanced form of mythology. It is, here at this point, that I must be careful. Once the mythology is established and I say to myself; I have arrived at the truth; I will have closed the door on any further enquiry. I will have stopped to live. I will have stopped looking out for what reality is. Indeed, why should a person need to look further who fancies himself to have arrived? Such a person will stop and stand still. This happens all too easily. Look at the old Soviet Union for instance. The common man was exploited under the Czars. A revolution was required to achieve a decent life for the common man. Out of this, the Soviet State was born, and immediately the idea became a constitution. And that's where it stayed. Today, the word communism stands for a dead rite that had ushered in the worst atrocities in the name of good until it died itself. A similar process happened in the USA, too. Unbridled personal freedom became America's unwritten constitution. The lateral platform was missing. This started the collapse of America.
"No doubt America's steps towards freedom were giant steps at the time, and bold statements on the rights of the individual. But that's were the development was halted, because the lateral platform seemed to difficult to grasp. Soon the incomplete concept was all that remained. It governed the axioms of the slaves and rulers alike. The scene remained stagnant. The idea didn't develop further. It died. It hadn't moved. A constitution for living must be alive itself, it must be something dynamic or it is dead and we become immobile and dead ourselves. A constitution must represent the very edge of man's perception of himself and his world in the lateral domain, and it must never move from this edge, but stay at it, or else it represents decay and death."
The man paused.
"Now, when our constitution changes as we awake, we will grow its base with our new-found awareness, and so, we become more alive and more sensitive to what is. The result will be that we love more and have more peace. This is the only way wars will end, the only way in which they 'can' end."
He paused again, then continued. "Friends, there is another aspect associated with the girl watching speech that we have just heard. It was appropriate that this speech was made in the context of this conference, which I believe we have now intended to be for the healing of humanity, since we have ripped up the official agenda. Our friend spoke about the beauty of humanity and about a person's need to appreciate this beauty. He spoke about appreciating this beauty for its own sake. He did not speak about lust or intentions to rape. He spoke about beauty and the appreciation of it. We all need this appreciation, and we need it now more than ever. The last century has been a horrible period for humanity in which World War I was merely the overture. It has been a period focused on killing, destroying, creating poverty, depopulation, genocide, and deindustrialization coupled with the legalization of theft on such a huge scale that it collapsed nearly the entire world-financial system. It has also been a period that has become increasingly focused on violence. Theft and violence became used as tools to destroy the moral fiber of society in order that society can be more easily robbed and controlled by the would-be rulers. But now, in this hall, we have seen one brave attempt, daringly made, to get us to turn back this tide of horrors that has caused so much pain in society, and also destruction, and to get us to reach down to the root of the problem, that I would call this a gift that we should not let fall to the ground."
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