"We could then start rebuilding our economies in peace and create for ourselves a New World," I interjected.

      Here Nic burst into laughter. "Your people would then have to go the China, Peter, to relearn your American System. We all would have to do this, because your own precious Principle of Economics of the American System has been drained out of your hearts."

      "There may be a few people still alive in America that remember what the American System is," I interjected, "and remember how it had made America great."

      "I challenge you to find even one of them. Even you may have trouble to define the most profound difference for me between the British imperial system and the American System of Economics," said Nic in a serious tone of voice. "This is important, but I bet you can't do it. As you say, it's been drained out of you. I give you a hint. It's a difference in the meaning of wealth...."

      "The biggest difference is found in what constitutes actual wealth," I replied. "You are right. Few people recognize this difference. The imperial concept is that wealth is what you can steal from society, or from human labor, or what human labor can dig for you out of the ground. That's the old concept of feudalism that goes way back in time. In the American System of Economics wealth is understood to be that which society creates for itself to improve its living and its civilization. It is unscientific to assume that a society can exist on a platform of stealing from one-another, or exploiting one-another in slavery. That doesn't create a richer world. The principle of economics, on the other hand, which the American system represents, is designed to develop the human potential to create new resources by discovering new physical principles, and developing these principles. This process isn't focused on human labor, but on scientific and technological development as you said earlier. Wealth is that which vastly extends the power of human labor and opens the door to creativity and the creating of new resources for living. That is how wealth is produced. Feudalism and its platform of stealing from society would never have been able to create the kind of world we have today that supports a thousand times as many people as the natural would support on its own. What society creates for itself with its productive potential is the only real wealth that society can have. The development of education, science, healthcare, culture, industries, beauty, and of love for one-another, is the only possible path for the development of this wealth. If this development potential were allowed to be realized, it would put any empire to shame. That's why the principle has always been trashed and slandered. Can you imagine the insanity involved, Nic? The only existing principle of economics on which civilization rests, has been trashed almost universally and slandered out of existence by the imperial forces, and we bow to that? Nothing worse could have happened to mankind, short of nuclear war. Society has been robbed of its very Soul in the worst possible way by the imperial process of taking away from it its real wealth, and giving it Adam Smith."

      Nic just nodded and grinned. "No politician that I know of has ever been slandered as viscously as the principle of economics has been slandered, even in America. Just stand on any corner, Peter, on Main Street in America and talk about such things as industrial development, regulation of infrastructures, protection of industries, nuclear power development, federal central banking, federal protection of farming and industries, the building of transportation infrastructures, social support structures, the General Welfare Principle, or even universal truth and universal love. If you mention any of these items people will treat you as if you were some kind of an idiot blabbering about ancient and outdated relics. They will tell you that they just finished struggling to get rid of all these archaic detriments to unrestrained freedom. They will brag to you about the riches found in the marketplace by shrewd and ruthless investors, and...."

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Stories about  Love from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche