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"That's like Hobbes talking, right?" I interrupted Nic.
"Of course it is, Peter. I have been in America. I have tried this. Most people didn't know what I was talking about, and those who did know, called me a traitor or a communist. Do you believe that? I spoke to them about their greatest heritage and the called me a traitor. A few people even called me an anti-Semite and a hater of the British Queen, neither of which I ever mentioned, but its efficient slander. And people react to the slander. People who witness you being slandered join the act and want to spit at you. It makes for an ugly atmosphere in which it becomes quite impossible to engage in a dialog with people about universal truth and universal principles," said Nic and sighed. "If they only knew how closely their own doom is tied to the doom of communism that they so freely slander. I don't think that any person that I spoke to had come to the faintest recognition that the mess the American society has created for itself by trashing its own cultural heritage is the same mess that communism has brought to Russia, except that communism hadn't been quite as efficiently destructive. Maybe not even you, Peter, can see the similarities."
"Oh I see enough," I said. "I can see a striking similarity, both in the process and the effect. The imperial system, which America now fully subscribes to, is focused on looting and throwing away the looted populations. It's the old British Malthusian mentality. Exploit people until they get poor, and then get rid of them. Don't support any useless eaters. That was Hitler's slogan. That's on the banners now in America. And don't allow people to develop and become human beings in the truest sense, because that would endanger the Empire. You want to keep humanity in a zoo, like a herd of cattle in the fields that you can cull to the size that suits your desires. That is why the Western Empire is harping ever louder about the supposed 'need' for worldwide population reduction and are staging evermore genocide. Communism is likewise designed to trash the population, isn't it? Communism glorifies human labor, but it does little towards developing the human potential by scientific and technological means in order to vastly increase the power of human labor. It is designed to be an enslaving system by which the power of society to create itself a brand New World becomes trashed. The human potential is thereby, likewise thrown away. So where is the fundamental difference between the British liberal system and the communist system, Nic? I don't see any. The slight difference that I see is that the communist system is not as radically ruthless in throwing its population away, but it is just as fascist in operation than the imperial liberal system always had been and ever will be. Liberal fascism is natural in both worlds, because the human being doesn't count for much in either world. The Principle of Universal Love is as dead under the Soviet system as it is under the western liberal imperial system. I think Thomas Hobbes would be delighted to see the two worlds that we have created on his model of keeping love completely out of the human realm. He might see today's world as the fruit of his inspiration in which love has virtually no place anywhere. He might rejoice even, to see another Thirty Years War looming black on the horizon again."
Nic applauded me. "So you do know a bit of history after all," he said.
"Actually I know a lot more," I replied. "Did you realize that Astrid's social problem is not that far off from what is imposed under communism?"
"What is wrong with Astrid, Peter? She is a nice and open-minded woman."
"No, Nic, she has a significant problem. She couldn't join us, because that's not her style. A long time ago she was desperate to meet her prince and to be loved by him, but the prince never came. Being a resourceful and rather beautiful person she decided to fall in love with herself. Thus, she made her own self her closest friend."
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