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"With me?" said Wendy surprised.
"With you and everyone who grew up in an oligarchic background," said Zy. "You see yourself as someone's wife and the owner of children. These are oligarchic concepts, gold-plated with the noblest intentions. But look what stands behind. You want to rule your children, and thereby you negate their humanity, which you should have helped develop. That's the root of every Hobbesian type philosophy. Out of it came the Thirty Years War that killed half the population of Europe. Out of this root also came Ortes, Malthus, Darwinism, the Eugenics movement, fascism, Martinism, the Jacobin terror, synarchism, and the oligarchic clamoring for the atomic bomb as a super-terror weapon with which to terrorize and rule the whole world. The whole stinking sewer that was created, needs to be taken back to its core-root, and that must be dealt with. That is where you fail, where the people on Earth fail, and where we have failed on Quian. If only we had been aware of this sooner, things would have been different for many people. But we weren't aware. We fell into the same trap. We helped destroy an entire civilization with the best intentions and the most honest desire to help them. They came to us for help. They pleaded with us to do something! We heard the same words that you speak now. We struggled with them almost day and night, but we did the wrong thing. They came to us, and we told that that we could help, because the people on Earth had managed to live with nuclear weapons for a long time and survived. We told them we would reveal to them how mankind had accomplished that feat of surviving in the face of 65,000 nuclear bombs that once sat ready to be launched at a moment's notice. And we kept our promise. That was our mistake. It was the biggest error we ever made. We didn't have the time to unravel the whole train of mistakes that the people on Earth had made that had created for them their own hypercritical situation. We tried to deal with the symptoms rather than with the deep causes for the symptoms. What we got into requires extreme vigilance. It requires turning back history. This is something and is extremely difficult. But we just charged ahead without thinking."
Zy turned to Wendy and me. "Do you still believe that this enormous task of overturning history can be accomplished by children? We once thought we could fix such situations easily with our special capabilities, zipping back to Earth and replicating on Quian what was done on Earth. 'Zy, come and help us!' That's what they said. They said it until we broke down. 'You can do it, you are wise men, you and your friends.' They kept insisting, but we failed, because we didn't realize that the Earth was in a more precarious state than they were. We failed them. We failed twice, and we failed miserably. You have no idea how hard it is to live with the terrible knowledge of such failures. Please don't ask us to become involved once more."
Olaf nodded in agreement. "You really don't want to hear the rest of it," he said.
I protested. "We need to know. We are not asking you to become involved again. We merely need to understand what you have experienced. Perhaps, by knowing why you have failed, the same mistakes can be avoided."
"When has it ever happened that our society has learned anything from its historic mistakes?" said Zy. "Has it happened even once? Why would it be any different this time?"
Olaf nodded. He seemed to agree. He turned to me. "How can you possibly understand what you need to understand? You talk about 'your' children as if you owned their life. This type of thinking is oligarchic thinking. Are you prepared to make the required deep fundamental changes? Those children that you refer to are a part of the whole of humanity. None of us stands apart from this universal oneness that exists without separation, though we have no right to dictate to their consciousness. You should have called them the children of humanity that you care for, instead of 'my children.' Did you create them? Your part in their being born is so minuscule that it doesn't warrant taking possession of them. You did your little part and the rest unfolded according to the principles of our humanity. And that was way beyond your doing, bordering on the miraculous. Are you prepared to regard all mankind in this manner? Oligarchism will cease if you do."
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