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I raised my hand to interrupt her.
"No Peter, let me finish," said Helen. "I know what I am talking about. Let me give you an example. I had a scientific experiment built for a friend of mine who taught science in an elementary school. I had a cycloid experiment designed for her that illustrated the Least Action Principle. The experiment illustrated that the shortest path between to points is not always the quickest. The experiment used two steel balls, both were released simultaneously, one to roll down a straight-line ramp, and the other to roll down the steep curve of a cycloid ramp. The two ramps came together at the end. Each time the experiment was run, the steel ball that rolled down the longer path of the cycloid ramp, came to the endpoint before the one that rolled down the straight-line path, that was shorter. This amazed the kids. Of course they wanted to explore why this happened. I, in turn, was amazed by their dynamic involvement. They were in competition with each other, in asking question. And, Peter, you should have seen their smiles and felt their excitement in the process of making discoveries. It gave them a sense of identity. They were all participating. The hands went up and up. Before I knew it, the hour that I had been given had passed. This was a great hour. One of the kids even wiped the blackboard for me. Of course this amazing happening wasn't at all to my credit. That it wasn't became apparent during the next hour. I had been asked to present the same experiment to another class of similar age, taught by a different teacher. This time the class was a dead scene. No hands were raised. No questions were asked. I was done in ten minutes. I asked a few questions to encourage a response, but nobody was willing to answer. Most surprising was the lack of connection in this class between the kids. The difference between the two classes was that the primary teacher of the first class was a seventy-year-old teacher, who had been grounded in classical science, who had evidently inspired the kids in the art of making fundamental discoveries, whereas the other teacher was a product of the new-age teaching. The first teacher's background in classical science had awakened a part of the kids humanity, which in turn had forged a link between them."
"So you learned from the kids," I interjected.
"I did indeed, Peter. That day I began to discover how a renaissance is created. It was an amazing discovery. Whoever wants to destroy a nation, Peter, has to take these kinds of cultural aspects away that really create a nation. Taking that away is more destructive than war. And that is what the masters of empire have done to America, and likewise all over the world. That is what you have seen the end-result of in Chicago. The cultural destruction of America began with the erosion of education, of classical science, of the English language itself, by narrowing down their use. The cultural warfare then added to this the erosion of music, and the erosion of sex, into an 'entertainment' pursuit. And all of this happened in parallel, and is still happening. When this happens to an entire nation, and to the whole world, culture disappears, civilization ends, and nothing of substance remains in society to rebuild a nation with. There remains only an empty shell. That is the kind of war that has already defeated America. Without a profound culture, society looses its connection to one another, to its past, to its posterity, even to the future of mankind. The focus becomes narrowed down to nothing greater than ones isolated little self focused on the present moment. The rest falls out of sight as irrelevant. That's why nobody could give a dam at the Chicago airport. Who in such a defeated state would care, whether the nation be defended against an impending doom or not? That question literally had become irrelevant. That's the current outcome of the imperial project for cultural freedom, meaning freedom from culture. And this affects you, my friend, too. You said you were surprised by what you saw, but you didn't ask the question of what it takes to get out of the death stupor that you saw. I can tell you from history that in Europe it took the defeated society a hundred years of development to get itself out of its mess of a collapsed civilization and to rebuild what was lost. When the modern financial system disintegrates, which it will, because the current debt-load can never be repaid but eats up progressively all that is of value, then the sheer weight of the created debt will cause the entire system to self-collapse. It may take America and the world a hundred years or more to rebuild itself out of the resulting economic and cultural black hole. And this, Peter, will happen all across the world. What happened in Europe in the 14th Century, is now staged for the entire world. This time far more people will likely perish than merely a third of the population, because in the modern world everything is financially interconnected. When the financial system falls, nobody eats. If the collapse happens in winter, few will have heated houses. God only knows how many will freeze to death then, of those who don't starve to death first, or become victims of the 200 million handguns that society is carrying. And as I said, this collapse will be global, because the collapsing financial system is global, but the hardest hit will be America. The collapse is actually already ongoing, because the focus has long ago been shifted away from producing for one-another as a society, to stealing from one-another, and from cultural development to cultural decay and cultural rape. That's America's mark in this age. Also there might also be war in the near future. The war will likely be nuclear, biological, or radiological, as if war could make matters worse in an already collapsed society. It will likely take more than a hundred years this time, for society to recover from this kind of collapse. This means that mankind cannot afford to go that route. But who will cause a change in direction? Who will reverse the cultural defeat that has already gripped America so deeply that nobody cares to defend it? America is set in the direction of a defeated nation in which the defeat is far advanced. At the present stage it takes nothing less than a world-historic person to recognize the danger that America is in, and more so to develop the kind of aspirations of Love in society that restores culture, that develops intimacy in society, that develops science, literacy, even music, and develops a nobler sense of sex. All of these steps are needed to cause a cultural, and then an economic, recovery. Economic prosperity is a cultural thing, Peter. It is not a monetary thing. The production of goods is a cultural process. The foundation for this will not be restored, however, until society becomes world-historically oriented. That's the only way in which the scourge of empire can be vacated from this planet. Right now no one is interested. This shows how great a task lies now before us, Peter. Also the cultural restoration has to be achieved on every level, beginning with the Pharaoh's circumcision and its religious derivatives, extending from there all the way to the cultural mutilation that the western society has been increasingly subjected to in the postwar period. The reversal can be achieved, Peter, but the longer society remains asleep on the job, and its world-historic task is not taken up, the more revolutionary will the recovery have to become to avert total chaos. A culturally defeated nation is a collapsing nation. Right now the growing insanity is making the recovery increasingly more difficult. Society seems to be intent to wait until its house falls down over its head. The injuries sustained thereby will make the task of rebuilding more difficult and evermore dangerous. I for one would rather have us repair our house to prevent its collapse. Maybe I am too idealistic to fight for that. What do you think, Peter? Am I?"
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