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"Can we really deal effectively with religious division and political division where the issues involved take us further and further away from our humanity?" I asked. "We've tried this for centuries without useful results. However, when it comes to questions of sex and marriage, our humanity becomes directly the issue, the primary issue, not a back-seat issue, but the only issue, which should make it an easy issue to be resolved. Let's make it our training ground for becoming truthful with ourselves. That's the key issue in saving the village behind the dam that is breaking. By dealing with sex as a human issue in which we want to be truthful with ourselves, we are dealing with a profound issue at the home gate where we don't get sidetracked into dead-end trails of secondary issues as we so often do in politics where nothing ever really gets resolved without that inner foundation of universal truthfulness."
I turned away from Sylvia when I said this. I realized that I shouldn't be preaching to her.
"But what does all of this mean?" she asked cautiously.
"It means that I am asking you to open your eyes, Sylvia, to what I have been working towards. The dam is breaking. The evidence is all over the world. It shows that the dangers are great as the dam is in the process of breaking up. It also shows that the denial is equally strong in the world. It means that I am involved, whether I like it or not. It means that we are all involved, either with creating a solution, or by default, with creating the conditions for the destruction of the village in which we live."
I reached my hands out to her and told her that I wasn't asking her to become involved in anything that she isn't already involved in. I told her that I was merely asking her to consider that she could involve herself in a more meaningful way by waking everybody else up from their dreams of denial, in order that they will do what must be done to save the village.
Sylvia shook her head. "I don't think I can do what you are suggesting, Peter. This sort of thing has never been done before."
"I am trying to save your life, Sylvia, together with everyone else's," I said forcefully as we were ready to leave. "The world has changed, the dangers have increased, and not just from the impending Ice Age, but also from the nuclear war camp where the players are becoming evermore restless. To say that our situation has become more critical is a gross understatement."
She shook her head. I noticed tears again.
"That is why everybody is still in a state of denial while the dam is breaking up," I said.
I spoke to her gently now. "Everybody says I can't do this. Indeed, you are not alone in this, Sylvia. Still, the work needs to be done, don't you agree? The necessary steps need to be taken. Whatever is required to empower us to win the wars that are in progress against us all, must be accomplished. The dam is breaking up, and it represents not just the Ice Age, but also the Nuclear War Age and the Cultural War Age. Doing nothing in the face of this huge danger, as we have done for far too long already, is not an acceptable solution at this critical stage. Doing nothing is indifference, and indifference isn't love, Sylvia. Indifference is a subtle form of hate. It allows hate to unfold and it makes it possible for wars to be waged and the truth to become hidden further and further until it dies completely."
With my refocusing onto war once more, tears came to her face. Oh, God, why did I have to bring this up! Still, everything I said was the truth.
"This isn't about you, Sylvia," I said moments later, "or about our relationship. It is about the survival of civilization in a nuclear-armed world, wrecked by cultural warfare. It is about being challenged as never before by the returning Ice Age that is now on the horizon. We are up to our necks in an existential crisis which must not be allowed to reach the point of no return."
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