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"Why then don't we stand together as one and end the war of empire against us?" I interjected.
"Because America is a nation of traitors as I pointed out before," said the man. "We are all traitors on that count and enemies of mankind, and thereby enemies of ourselves. First, we have to learn to stop being traitors."
He reached for his glass again and emptied it to the last drop, then pointed to the clock and said that it was time to go. He said he was tired enough now, to sleep.
Before he stood up I was able to ask him how any of this could possibly be related to love pains, as he had suggested in the beginning.
"That is for you to figure out," he said slowly and began to grin. He wasn't too steady on his feet. "For this you have to go much farther back into history," he added and tapped his fingers on my shoulder as he stood beside me. "If I was you, I wouldn't concern myself with it," he reversed himself. "Concern yourself with the real world." He emphasized, "real." "Respond to it honestly," he added. "Stop being a traitor. Maybe people will respect you for the gesture. They certainly don't respect you if you tell them the truth. That's why I am not teaching anymore. That's why I am here in this hellhole. Our society has become a society of liars as well as traitors. People lie to their governments, they lie to each other, to their friends, their spouses, but most of all they lie to themselves. And this, my friend, is destroying your chance to free yourself from being a traitor. Think about that. "In Lies we Trust!" This is the modern watchword. One of the biggest lies in modern times is the lie you Americans believe in, that you live in an era of prosperity. The fact is the entire world-economy has collapsed to half of what it used to be. It was once possible for a single worker to buy a house and support a family of three. This was possible once in America, a few decades ago. I have read that it now takes three people working full time to accomplish the same, if they are lucky enough to get the jobs. This leaves not a single person of the family left over to look after the children. That isn't prosperity, it is insanity. Our world is doomed by insanity."
The man then laughed and put both his hands on my shoulders as though he would shake me to my senses. He said that people lie to themselves when they believe that their laboriously accumulated financial portfolios represent riches. "There exists no real wealth anywhere apart from that which society creates for itself," he said, "no matter how much the people's financial portfolios hold."
He took hold of my beer mug. He said its content represents the total product of society. He said that it doesn't really matter how much money society has in its portfolios, it cannot buy more than what is in its mug, because that's all what is being produced. Whether society has a trillion, or ten trillion, or a thousand trillion in financial wealth, it can't buy anything more than what is being produced. He pointed to my beer mug. The mug was almost empty.
"It is stupidity for society to imagine that its financial wealth can buy more than what is being produced," he added. "But that's what they believe they can do. They accumulate financial wealth and destroy by this process the foundation for the economy that alone produces things of value. They are traitors. They have joined the war of empire versus civilization on the side of empire, fighting against their own welfare and existence."
He pointed out that over the last several decades the financial values have increased twenty-fold, especially in America, while at the same time the economic output has collapsed to half of what it was. He took a large sip from my mug and pointed out that it is now empty. "That's all what their trillions of money can buy," he said.
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