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"So what?" I replied. "Many people study history literature."
The man put his beer down. "Yes, they do. They read the textbooks and study lies. They don't study the literature that lays bare a poet's soul. When I studied Schiller, I knew I also had to study history in order to understand Schiller, because that man was deeply aware of the universal history of mankind. The two are one. And this, my friend, is the reason why I am here."
"History?" I repeated. I must have stared at him, perplexed by the paradox of a professor of history clutching his beer mug in this stinking hole in the wall at one o'clock in the morning.
"Ah, I have you puzzled," he said smiling. He spoke English now, and spoke it well. He must have noticed my accent. "You are American, aren't you?"
I nodded cautiously. "I'm not here as an enemy. I'm on a diplomatic mission."
"Of course you are an enemy, a bigger enemy that you can imagine." He raised his beer mug. "You are a traitor to your country and an enemy to all mankind." He raised his mug higher. "Didn't I tell you that you don't what to hear what I know?" He raised his mug higher still. "Here is one for you!" he said and lowered the mug again and turned to the bar tender, saying in German, "bring my brother another beer."
"Are you American, too?" I asked.
"No I am not!" he said proudly. "But we are both fellow traitors. We are both fighting on the wrong side in war of empire versus civilization."
"The war of empire versus civilization?" I repeated. "We are not at war. World War II has ended decades ago."
"Yes it has," he said and smiled as if speaking to a child. "But the real war that threads through all history, the war of empire versus civilization, has never ended. It began in ancient times and has been maintained by every empire that ever was. Plato understood this. The war of empire versus civilization had destroyed the Greek Classical Culture. Athens has had its own Thirty Years War by which it lost everything. Plato discovered that the war of empire versus civilization is designed to diminish the human being, to make the human being small, weak, dumb, and easily defeatable so that society will never become a threat to empire. Understanding this, Plato struggled to bring the lost Greek culture back, by promoting a profound recognition of the greatness of the human being. Some call him the precursor to the unfolding of Christianity. He was a great man, but the war of empire versus civilization continued. After Persia destroyed itself with its madness, Rome carried the torch of empire to burn down civilization. It nearly succeeded in destroying it, before it destroyed itself. Islam rose out the ashes and brought the dignity of the human being back into view and with it, the development of science, and of course Plato. Plato in turn rescued Europe when the war of the Lombard banking empire versus civilization had created a disaster in the 14th Century that had wiped out half the population. Plato, revived by the Islamic Renaissance, brought the perception of the value of the human being back to Europe, which set the stage for the Golden Renaissance. The Renaissance nearly succeeded in closing the door to empire, and possibly forever, but the Pope intervened and kept the door open. The Venetian Empire survived and started a subversive religious war to destroy the Renaissance that had threatened its existence. It took more than a hundred years to destroy the Renaissance completely. The devastation was so great that Europe lost a third of its population, especially in the latter part of it, the Thirty Years War. But a spark of the Renaissance spirit survived. It was brought back to the foreground and caused a renewed recognition of the value of the human being. Out of it came the greatest peace treaty in history, the Treaty of Westphalia. While the Peace of Westphalia didn't last, the little renaissance that had created it gave rise to the founding of the USA as a Plato-type republic in which the human being was recognized as of great value. The USA became the guiding star of the world and the hope of mankind. It was the most daring large-scale breakout ever attempted by society from the rule of empire. By this it posed the most serious threat to the existence of empire itself. Thus the war of empire versus civilization was put in high great to destroy the USA and all the intellectual elements in Europe that stood behind the American republic and had helped bring it about. The empire's French Revolution that Napoleon rose from accomplished the desired intellectual destruction. While Napoleon failed in his biggest task, to take Russia, the empire succeeded through the back door. The empire created communism as a Trojan horse that succeeded subversively in what Napoleon had been unable to do with force. But the biggest thrust in the war of empire versus civilization has always been directed against America as the chief threat. The empire failed on the battlefield to recapture America, it also failed on the high sees, and it nearly succeeded in destroying it with civil war, but as it failed on all of these fronts it eventually succeeded subversively, and this happened on the day before Christmas in 1913. America was destroyed by traitors, traitors like you my friend. America betrayed the whole of mankind." The man raised his beer mug and smiled, waiting for a response.
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