Whose children are we?
Are we not offspring of a common humanity?
Compared to that, everything that we allow to divide us
is rather trivial, isn't it?
I had called Steve from Suchumi a week before the end of the conference, long before Nicolai's final presentation. I had asked Steve if I could meet him in Leipzig on my way home from Russia.
"Sorry, that won't be possible," Steve had replied on the phone.
"Why, Is the border to East Germany closed?" I asked him.
"There will be nobody here, Peter. That's why. I'm going to South Africa with a scientific delegation, and Ushi leaves tomorrow for Mexico. But why do you want to come here? Do you want to talk about what happened in Russia? You can do this on the phone. Do you want to tell me about the great breakthroughs that were made in your little resort town at the Black Sea?" He began to laugh.
"No great political breakthroughs were made, Steve," I replied. "If anything we identified more problems that require urgent solutions."
"Oh! What problems, Pete?"
"The collapse of Russia, Steve," I replied, "and the coming Ice Age; the cultural crisis in India; the biological breakdown of Africa; the economic disintegration of America; the growing child genocide around the world; the western cultural warfare projects; and the ongoing imperial projects to massively depopulate our planet in order to save the collapsing empires around the world from a potential new renaissance. Yes, we also explored solutions, but that exploration was mostly just talk."
Steve burst into laughter at the other end of the phone. "That must have kept you quite busy, Pete." He laughed some more. "I could have told you all of that in Leipzig when you were here."
"Why didn't you?" I cut him off.
"I didn't, Pete, for many reasons. For starters, you didn't ask. And you didn't ask, because you didn't know what to ask. And if I had told you, you wouldn't have believed me. You would have sought that I am nuts. Besides, we didn't have time. So we did the one thing that you didn't do at the conference. We explored the solution in a deep and concrete fashion, and we took profound steps to develop the technology for the solution. There exists only one single solution, Peter, for all the problems that you identified and probably explored rather deeply. That solution is located at the third level, Peter, in the vertical model of progressive scientific development that brings us face to face with the sublime elements of our humanity and its principles. We talked about this model when you were here, remember? The horrendous problems that India is facing, that Africa is facing, that Russia is facing, and that America is facing without being aware of it, are not isolated problems. They appear to be isolated, but they are not. They all have one common denominator. They are all rooted at the lowest level of society's self-perception where society regards itself as animals caged up in an imperial zoo of countless different dimension. That makes the all problems appear to be different. But they aren't. The cultural dimension of India is not any different than the cultural dimensions found in Europe, in the Arab world, in Africa, and in the Americas. They are all reeling with problems that cannot be solved on the low-level platform on which small-minded thinking created the problems, where they all appear to be different problems. But they can be solved when society raises itself two levels above that quagmire, up to the progressive scientific domain where people begin to discover the sublime nature of their humanity. That is what we did in Leipzig when you came to our home, and we did it intensely in the social context where it really hits close to home, as close as one can get." Here Steve began to laugh.
