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Sylvia shook her head. "I can't," she said. "In that case I, and probably the whole of society, are wrong. But are we wrong? If I am wrong on the grounds of not having a better solution to help you with, that implies that I have a lot of waking up to do. But is this really possible? I mean, can one get used to that kind of challenge and survive without going insane?" She put her arm around me as we were standing by the reflecting pool looking into the evening sun with the Lincoln Memorial far to our right.
I explained to her that the threat of nuclear war isn't a technical or political issue that can be resolved by technical and political means. I said that war has always been a human failure, and still is. "It is a failure of human beings in relating to one-another as human beings. This failure has had a long beginning and has over the centuries has created the divisions between people that forced our isolation from one-another to such a depth that people won't dare to stand up anymore for what is human. So, Sylvia, what has happened in East Germany and later on has nothing to with carousing around with women, or with free love, etc. I am quite aware that free love has historically turned into a big mess, likewise free sex that never created true intimacies, but emptiness as during the Nam days as you said. But that's not what happened in East Germany. What has happened there has a lot to do with preventing that kind of mess that you feel revulsion for. If I had as much as mentioned the phrase, free love, or even thought it, Steve would have given me the boot so fast that I wouldn't have known what happened. He made that quite clear later on. He also made it clear that this mess that you feel revulsion for, is but a symptom of a much deeper mess that needs to be cleaned up, because it has grown into a monster so that our civilization is now threatened by it, even our very existence. Steve's take is that we cannot afford to sit idly on the sideline anymore, because the deep issues that are involved reach now far beyond sex and war. They take us to the very core of the imperial model for a human relationship that destroys everything that is intrinsically human and spearheads depopulation by mass-genocide. Fighting against the scourge of imperialism and fascism isn't a fight against people. It is a fight against a defective model of perception. The people who are trapped into the defective model need to be rescued, and that includes probably most of mankind, the oligarchy included, and us as well. That's what I mean by bringing our humanity out of the closet on a universal scale, on the Principle of Universal Love."
Sylvia shook her head vigorously, but said nothing, though she kept on smiling.
"This isn't about us, but about two conflicting models for human relationships," I continued my battle. "One of these models is the imperial vertical model, which much of mankind is presently living under, created by the rulers of empires. The complete opposite of this imperial vertical model is the lateral model, which corresponds to universal principles and truth. That is where we find the Principle of Universal Love located, and ourselves and the whole of humanity with it, existing side by side with one-another without any isolating distance between us. That should be the model for our individual renaissance and the renaissance of society. Universal sex is only important in as much as it is a part of that renaissance development. Rather than being a blocking factor standing against it, it needs to put onto this higher ground as well together with everything else. The imperials of the world have set sex up as blocking factor. We have to transform this blocking factor into one of the renaissance factors in which we celebrate our common humanity and our universal human Soul."
"Just wait a minute, Peter!" Sylvia interrupted. "Are you saying that you want me to become a part of your renaissance?"
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