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"No you haven't," Wendy assured him.
"All right!" he said, and stood up in his mud hole. "Remember..."
"Yes, I know, we asked for it!" I interrupted him.
He sat down again and started by explaining that every civilization goes through a typical sequence of stages. "Very early they discover that two and two equals four. Then they put other facts together. Eventually they discover that heavy atoms are very unstable, and reason from this, that if one were able to poke at them, they would fall apart with a big bang! Suddenly, the nuclear bomb is born. They also realize that the sun has a different nuclear furnace that burns only light atoms, those of hydrogen. So once again, they put some facts together and reason this thing out by which they discover that the sun's furnace might be made replicated. And it will work, because the lightest elements also have an extremely weak atomic structure which can be penetrated if one bangs these atoms together violently enough that their structures fuse into each other. By this process a heavier structure is created, but the process also sheds off a lot of left over, free energy that has no place in the resulting structure. And so, with another bang, the hydrogen bomb is born. This bomb gives them for the first time in their history the capability to erase their civilization."
He told us that every intelligent civilization reaches this stage at some point in its development, and it frightens the people. He said that most civilizations find it extremely difficult to deal with this newly found capability to blow up their entire world. "Some deal with the capability intelligently and make it the basis for their rapidly advancing self-development. Others stop developing out of fear and shut themselves down, technologically, or they blow themselves up. In either case, their civilization disappears. And then there are those other civilization that chase after the dream of empires. Empires are created to steal from society. Empire's steal their existence from them. They put them into poverty, subject them to endless wars, demand depopulation, and so bit by bit they take away society's humanity, the people's very core and very life. At this point civilization is but an empty shell. When the nuclear bomb gets built in this development everything becomes extremely precarious. The people on Earth are at this point and have played with matches for over sixty years. That is the stage the Earth has reached. Are you telling me that this what your children want to protect? They want to protect what is killing mankind. The focus on the atomic bomb. They think the atomic bomb is their greatest threat to existence. They don't even know what the real threat is. The threat is empire, and empire is the process of the relentless privatization of wealth, power, money, even love. When they discover that their real disease is empire, then, and only then, will they have a glimmer of hope for survival. Fighting the nuclear demon is a diversion that hides from their vision the real disease."
"Is this is what happened on Quian?" I interrupted.
Zy nodded and let himself sink back into the ooze, relishing his mud bath. "But it doesn't have to be that way," he continued. "The collapse situation is usually created by some form of greed which tends to be encouraged, if not induced conspiratorially as it was on Earth. The ruling empires need to do this conspiracy to maintain themselves. Stealing is their basis for existence. In such a situation everything that is vital for the development of a real civilization becomes sabotaged, diminished, blocked, underfunded, and people that live in the sphere are worked to death or starved to death, or worse. This type of society, a society that embraces or tolerates oligarchic systems, cannot long survive especially when it gets into the nuclear age, because oligarchic systems are inherently fascist by nature. Fascism and nuclear weapons add up to an end-game that dooms all. All oligarchic systems are that way. They are fascist by nature. It's as simple at that. The Earth has suffered the oligarchy disease for 4000 years. The Brahmins might have been first. They nearly destroyed the budding civilization in India. India has never recovered from that. The Roman Empire nearly did the same thing. The British Empire was educated in India by the Brahmins. The British Empire started doing the same thing. The people on Earth have lived under this kind of system for over 4000 thousand years. If it hadn't been for mankind's tolerance of oligarchism, mankind would have stood on the moon in 500 AD or sooner, and would be more advanced today that the people on planet 'O' are. Instead, they've created a classical sewer society. The only hope for their survival lies in eradicating the oligarchism that manifests itself in the disease of empire building. If your children can do this they can unravel the entire historic mess and overturn the mistakes that were made. Nothing else will save mankind and the Earth in the age of nuclear weapons. This means that the people's humanity must rout out all oligarchic structures, beginning in their own consciousness, then their economies and political institutions, and their supporting institutions, ideologies, practices, axioms, and beliefs, from the very top to the very grass roots level. Not a thought, hint, or tradition rooted in oligarchism must be allowed to remain. And here it becomes difficult. That process has to begin with you."
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