"Peter, I am deeply disturbed by your use of the word, must! I am especially troubled by your use of it in utilizing the political crisis as a ploy to justify your 'womanizing' of your life. I didn't expect that kind of an obsession from you, the kind of flight forward, all underscored by the term, MUST. That has hurt me. It leaves me behind in the dust, crying." With this more tears came again.

      I looked away from her. I couldn't face her tears anymore. "When I say we MUST, that isn't me talking. The MUST is the demand of universal principles that I have no option but to respond to, since suffering the consequences isn't an option that I can endure. The same goes for all of us. It's as simple at that. We have to respond to the demands of the principles that operate universe that we are a part of. If we want to get to the top of a ladder we MUST take the steps to get us there, rung after rung. I can see no other option.

      "I can see a lot of these demands put on us," I added. "I would call the process of our recognizing these demands of universal principles, a process of waking up!"

      I spoke in a quiet tone so as not to hurt her more.

      "I have seen the preparations for a great crisis that has been long in the making," I continued while we were waiting for the bill. "I have seen a column of 500 tanks coming down from Berlin, inside East Germany. I have seen trucks loaded with pipes for the fuel supply pipeline that is supposed to supply the rear guard infrastructure behind the rapid invasion force. I also know the underlying policy, the Ogarkov policy, which calls for a limited nuclear blitz, just small enough not to trigger a global strategic response, but big enough to cause a shock that is then to be exploited by a rapid occupation of Western Europe. That's not conspiracy theory, Sylvia. That's in preparation now. We are all hell-bent on destroying, rather than building; on annihilating mankind, rather than developing it into a productive and creative force that can snub the Ice Age with a profound renaissance and snub nuclear war all at the same time. Nothing less will defeat the dangers for nuclear war. If the Ogarkov Plan fails to come off, other plans will be developed. Sooner or later one will succeed and wipe out much of humanity. The Cold War is aptly named. It's a manmade Ice Age in the making. It has the same effect as the real one, and requires the same solution. Only our creating of a profound renaissance on the Principle of Universal Love can preempt the currently prepared for eventual destruction of mankind.

      "That's what the CIA spy was in East Germany for, whom I brought out in a prisoner exchange," I continued. "The Ogarkov Plan is presently in the final stages of being implemented. It's even being talked about on the beach. The entire war-plan is openly discussed on the beach. It's real. The communist sector let Leroy Anderson back out to convince us that they mean business. They want us to back off. If we don't win a victory over our own madness in the West before that war starts, then all the beautiful things that we cherish individually have no meaning. They become irrelevant if we don't protect them with everything that we have, and are, and are able to do while we still can. To me that means that we are running up the wrong ladder right now. We are on a broken ladder. We MUST come down from it in order to survive and get onto a ladder that we know to be safe. That's not me talking when I say this. That's reality. The whole of mankind MUST reverse course, assuming that we want to survive. History tell us that we have no choice, but to rally around the Principle of Universal Love that has been at the center of the greatest developments in civilization. We MUST pursue this course to the deepest recesses in our thinking. Naturally, the MUST isn't absolute. We can certainly choose to close our eyes, go to sleep, do nothing at all, and die of the consequences. I assume, however, that you, like me, are not suicidal. Therefore we MUST take certain steps as must when our house is on fire. We must respond to the fire. We must stir our stumps and get out of the burning house, and then douse the flames. We must do the same globally, even if this means changing humanity and its habits and axioms and ourselves from our small-minded narrow thinking. We must stop the current rush towards a war that we cannot survive, and our refusal to respond the coming Ice Age that we won't survive either if don't change the world for the changing conditions."

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