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"I suppose I don't need to add that my friend Helen never forgot this experience," I said to Nic. "She told me the story just recently. She spoke of it as if it happened only the day before, though it had happened years earlier. She explained that it took her some time to recognize for herself that she had witnessed an aspect of the Principle of Universal Love coming to light."
I paused for a while. When I broke the silence I spoke about Astrid and why I felt sad for her. I said that I felt sad because she had planted herself outside of the universal lateral lattice in which we all exist side by side with one-another and bound to one-another by strands of love. I suggested to Nic that Astrid had planted her life outside the reality of our being, maybe not far outside, but far enough so that I cannot help but sense a certain emptiness in her struggles. She aims to live like a sun that keeps its light bottled up. I don't see any happiness in that or a know of any principle that reflects that."
"Aren't we all a bit like Astrid?" said Nic. "Most of mankind seems to live that way, with the same sense of emptiness that people aim to fill with stimulating games, exciting sports, dangerous adventures, and so forth."
"Communism puts people even farther outside of the lateral lattice of our being and away from the Principle of Universal Love," I added. "Communism has been designed as a construct that denies love itself, especially our self-love for our humanity in which all stands of love are anchored, but which should be out-flowing. Communism, though, appears to be further off the mark than Astrid is. It aims to exist without the human 'sun' altogether."
"Of course Adam Smith is worse," said Nic and began to laugh. "Greed-based fascism is a black hole that gobbles up everything. It turns life into an overpowering emptiness. Imperialism is so far off the mark of the human reality that it cannot even be perceived in a human context. It denies love categorically. It slices and dices mankind into hierarchical relationship that are dominated by arbitrary force. That process terminates much of what is human. That's how Dark Age fascism begins. At this point society takes on the role of an impotent worm, wiggling helpless against the imposing forces. Adam Smith gives the human being that kind of super-Hobbesian identity, devoid of love and devoid of power even in the smallest domain. Love and humanist power appear to be linked, even interdependent. The resulting condition is aptly illustrated in the Ben Hur movie that I have seen in the West, Peter. Do you remember the scene where a bunch of slaves are being addressed by the captain of a warship? The captain laid it out straight. 'We keep you alive to serve the ship; row well and live!' That is really what the Western Empire is saying to society. 'We keep you as animals are kept to serve our purposes. That's the imperial system. Love is not a factor and you have no power in that zoo to assert your humanity. That's the Dark Age World imperialism imposes, and we are heading ever deeper into it, into the mental deep-freeze age."
"That puts us as far outside the lateral-lattice model as one can get," I interjected. "But can we really use this kind of measurement, Nic, like being close, or far out, or being infinitely far out? This type of measurement seems to be invalid. In every one of those cases, from Astrid to imperialism, people have planted themselves outside the lateral lattice that represents the principles of our humanity. So what does it matter how far off the mark one is? When one is off the mark it doesn't seem to matter if one has missed it by a little or a lot. It doesn't seem to matter how far a lie is off the truth. In every case a lie is a denial of the truth. So it doesn't seem to matter what one pursues, whether it is the British imperial system, or the communist system, or Astrid's innocent looking self-isolating system, in either case one has missed the mark of the Principle of Universal Love. Only with the platonic method of looking for the truth can one discover that. That means that only with the America System of Economy will one be on the mark in economics, and with Plato and his method in scientific discovery. The American society experienced a profound healing whenever it had once built its economic existence on its renaissance foundation of the Principle of the Advantage of the Other, and had illustrated its power in an efficient manner to itself and to the world. Outside of this model of reality nothing supports civilization. Nor is it possible to establish a middle-ground economy, located halfway between the imperial and the American system, or Platonic science and Aristotelian lying about the truth. One is either off the mark of the truth, or on it. It don't think it is possible to embrace a universal principle partially, and embrace its opposite, a perversion of it, at the same time."
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