I nodded. "You are right on the mark," I said. "However, what you have touched on is much more profound than this. I don't think we are moving in the wrong direction. I think we have simply stopped. We have subjected ourselves to a system that has corrupted vast segments of society into impotence and blindness to their humanity. Ultimately, I don't think we can go in the wrong direction. We can never be anything less than a human being. However, if we shut ourselves down with impotence and blindness we are putting ourselves into a precarious situation as individuals and as society. We try to run the world without our humanity. Suddenly we face insurmountable problems, like a mountain climber who wants to scale Mt. Everest with bare feet. The climber won't succeed unless the climbing boots are taken out of the closet and are worn. I think the world is in a mess because we've been corrupted to keep our humanity in the closet. It needs to be worn. I think we got into this trap, because we never moved far enough in discovering and developing our humanity, and really experiencing its value. That is why we were so readily compliant to the slightest bidding to lock it away into the most hidden closet for the slightest reason."

      "We don't do that!" Sylvia interrupted in protest.

      "Sure we do," I replied. "What else would cause us to walk through life with closed eyes and minds? Look at the Global Warming Dogma for example. The Global Warming Dogma has corrupted most of humanity. People embrace this dogma and fight for it. They are literally laying down their life for it and that of their children by committing mankind to enter the worst approaching crisis in human history without creating the renaissance that can enable it to survive the crisis. They are actively fighting against their own survival and are happy about it; they do it with a smile on their face as they succeed."

      "That is what I mean," said Sylvia. "I am afraid that you have fallen into the same kind of trap."

      I raised my hand. "What about you? What about the whole of society that perpetuates the corruption of the cultural warfare of the Three Thousand Years War and smugly feels good about it? Society thereby maintains a war against itself by rejecting the Principle of Universal Love that is the core principle of civilization, which is imbedded in our humanity. The ongoing cultural war is designed to prevent us from developing our humanity far enough to be effective. It's forced it into the closet so that it won't interfere with the empire's inhumane, fascist, imperial objectives."

      "So what is the answer?" said Sylvia.

      "The answer is found in the answer to the question of whether or not the Principle of Universal Love is a legitimate principle," I replied. "If the answer is that the principle is legitimate, based on great historic achievements, then the principle applies in all domains of human existence. In this case I am on track and no longer lying to myself, as you have suggested I am, as indeed I have in the past by keeping myself locked into a closet. I would say that the answer is to open the closet no matter what the appearance suggest otherwise. That's what I am committed to. However, I might be wrong and you are right. I might be sadly deluded. In this case I need your help to discover where I went wrong. In fact, I need your help on two counts. If the solution to the great problems of our world is not in bringing our humanity out of the closet, then I need to know what process offers the needed solution for protecting our civilization in a nuclear armed world and empowers us to so radically upgrade our world in an Ice Age Renaissance that makes it possible for us to survive the coming Ice Age unharmed. Or do you propose that we shouldn't give a damn if nine-tenth of mankind goes to hell by starvation or nuclear war, or mankind becomes extinct altogether. But Sylvia, if you say that, then I must ask you in return why we care so little about our children that we will have some day that we actively prevent them from having a future. So what is your answer, Sylvia? Can you offer me a better solution than my commitment that you reject? Can you offer me something that stands on higher ground than all the solutions that mankind has toyed with for the last five hundred years, which have all, failed? We are facing the greatest potential catastrophes in history, nuclear war and the Ice Age, and a global economic collapse. Offer me a solution that is sufficiently greater in scope and has the potential to work in all of these troubled areas where all solutions have so far failed."

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