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Chapter 3 - Shared Roses.
We enjoyed the quiet atmosphere at the reflecting pool of the mall in Washington DC. Only a few people could be seen, and those were mostly on the other side. We were on the sunny side of the pool, where the evening sun painted its a golden playful image onto the water's surface. I explained to Sylvia while we ere looking for a place to sit that everything that had happened to me in East Germany, my falling in love with Helen and Ushi, and later with Heather, Olive, and Tara, all had to happen. I also said that much more of the same was still required.
"We are standing with one foot in the grave of a nuclear war," I added, "but the whole world says don't you dare to counter the trend and speak of love, much less universal love. However, Sylvia, that's exactly what needs to be done no matter what it will take, no matter the cost, no matter the struggle it will bring with it. It is required of us that we come face to face with the Principle of Universal Love, or else we cannot survive, and therefore will not survive. It is essential that mankind begins to think in terms of universal principles. So, will you help me, Sylvia? It is essential for us as human beings all over the world that we embrace one-another universally as human beings and love one-another more fully and more universally, as much as we can. If we don't, we will lose everything, and this long before the Ice Age begins."
"I accept that you are sincere, Peter, in what you are trying to accomplish," Sylvia gently interrupted me. "But I do doubt your wisdom. The way you go about it isn't right! What you have laid before me to justify yourself looks like an excuse to me to justify you indulgence in sexual escapades, Peter. You talk about universal love. What happened to loving me? Did this fall by the wayside? You have hurt me with this, and you don't seem to care. You speak of universal love, but when I close my eyes I see your self-justified 'womanizing' that blots out the love we have had for each other."
I noticed tears again in her eyes again.
"You go around carousing with other women all over the place and you justify it all in the name of love and peace and creating a bright New World. Where have we heard this before, Peter? Make love not war, make peace! We had those slogans on bumper stickers and billboards during the Vietnam days. And what did we get, especially us women? We got screwed. We got pregnant. We got drunk. We got drugs. We got messed up with this screeching called music that wasn't music anymore. Heavy metal they called it later. We got everything but peace. And Peter, love wasn't even on the agenda. Social destruction was on the agenda, and that's what we got. Now you are singing the same song again. Make love to free the world from nuclear weapons. It see it as a replay of a Dark Age cultural descend in an ill-perceived attempt to excuse your 'womanizing,' your carousing. How can I ever respect you after that? I felt that what you have done was worse than lying, but you want to go further with this. Maybe you are lying to yourself."
We stood by the pool when she said this, as many people before us probably have. Some may have stood there alone, or in pairs as lovers do, or in large crowds up to million people in size for political rallies. Sylvia also referred to the rallies. "Can you imagine how many of those who have come to these rallies have been lying to themselves? The political system corrupts people to accept doctrines that have nothing to do with reality, that 'inspire' them to make them their own, which is like an indulgence that is to their own worst disadvantage, which they are too blind to see. I see your quest for universal love in the same light, as a hopeless delusion. On the other hand I have to agree, the present trend is hopeless, too. We seem to be going in the wrong direction all over the place. We are going backwards, faster and faster. We have more beggars and homeless now than we ever had before, more violence, more stealing and destruction, more poverty, more slavery, more lies, more inhumanity, more families breaking up, more insecurity, and more indifference to the human conditions. We've even got more fascism all over the place than ever before. The only thing that we don't have is sufficient employment, prosperity, and solutions to our problems like the nuclear weapons standoff that we seem to stand impotent against. Maybe we are going in the wrong direction."
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