|
"Perhaps this will happen some day," I suggested.
"But it has not happened, yet," she said. "We are not ready for this new land. We can't survive there until we are ready. This is why we must draw a line for now, why we must close the gate as it were, beyond which we cannot go. This means that the single flower in our garden still controls the dimensions of our existence. This also means to me that the goal of freedom has not yet been won, though it must be won. The point is, Peter, that the freedom that we must seek, must be won on a responsible basis. Freedom must never be destructive, but be enriching; it must never be imposing, but be uplifting; it must never be irresponsible, but be a blessing to all."
"You are asking a lot, Erica," I said quietly. Deep down inside, I knew that she was right.
"No, to the contrary, Peter, I am not asking for much. This is the most minimal request that I must make. Anything less than this won't do. There can be no freedom without responsibility. Each increment of freedom that we allow ourselves to experience requires more than its equivalent in taking responsibility, and in scientifically understanding the truth on which that freedom rests. It has to be that way. We are not in a war where freedom must be won by the sword. We are in love where freedom must be won by our scientific understanding of the truth of our humanity. This understanding needs yet to be developed."
I wanted to shake my head, but who was I to argue. She was the scientist. Who was I compared to that? I was like somebody who had just been shaken out of a long sleep, still drowsy from the night. Nevertheless, I also realized that I was a human being with the same scientific capacity that she had, as a human being.
"Let me illustrate the point," she said patiently. "For many years there had been no speed limit on the autobahn. The drivers had total freedom, but they lacked responsibility. Speeds of 200 Km/hr, and greater, were observed, rain or shine, sometimes even in fog. Many times 50 to 80 cars would pile into each other when an accident occurred. This freedom to embrace insanity had to be curtailed to protect the public. Limits had to be imposed, because people hadn't cared enough about one-another to act responsibly. Now, the autobahn is safer. It is rare now, that more than ten cars pile into each other."
With this said, she expanded the illustration into all kinds of areas where people claimed more and more freedoms without the slightest care about the consequences. She spoke of children becoming engaged in violence against each other as they see it acted out on TV, even to the point of committing murder. She further expanded the scope, speaking of wars being rushed into for political goals without the slightest thought by anyone about the dimension of human suffering. She expanded the scope even further than that, speaking about the world's financial games of speculative profiteering, without anyone having the slightest regard for who foots the bill for the profits that are demanded. She was adamant that the shuffling of paper, from one hand to another, doesn't produce anything tangible in real terms that could be counted as profit, which means that the profits that are taken, are stolen. She was also adamant that the real economy, the physical economy that alone produces things that profit society in real terms, is being collapsed by this process of irresponsibility, by which the investment funds are channeled into the dream world of financial profiteering. The end result is that the societies suffer, which tolerate such insanity. She said, "It is irresponsible for people to steal from one-another and from the industries that support society. But we do it to the point that these industries are being collapsed thereby."
Of course she blamed America for this utter irresponsibility and insanity. But the worst example, she said, was the depopulation game that the old British Empire and its modern assets around the world were pushing upon humanity. "They want to cut the world population back to the two billion mark, or less. They want to rid the world of four thousand million people," she said, "by which, they say the Earth is overpopulated. And you better believe that they've got plans for carrying out whatever their policies call for." She said that the principle of taking responsibility goes very deep and should not be thrown out of the window for any reason.
Next Page
|| - page index -
|| - chapter index -
|| - Exit -
||
|
