"Oh, we can get away from the Principle of Universal Love all right, Peter. We've stepped far away from it already, but not without those consequences that I have mentioned earlier."

      "That's what I mean, Steve, we can't get away from this principle. One way or another, we are tied to it."

      "All of that will be recognized, Peter. I am glad you are beginning to wake up to it."

      "Of course it will be recognized. It is the truth, Steve."

      "It needs to be recognized in our time, Peter. We cannot afford to loose our civilization. That's the platform for our existence. If that goes, it's game over for 99.9% of mankind, if not for all of it. The problem is that society has become so dull with playing games and putting itself asleep with illusions, destructive entertainment, violence and hate campaigns, that it is hard for society to gain even a glimpse of its potential humanity. I agree, Steve, in the end the truth will be recognized, but right now we are asleep to it. The truth may however, be recognized with bitter tears in the end when we missed the boat and find ourselves defeated."

      "Sure it will be recognized with bitter tears," I interjected, "perhaps sooner than we think. Just let our President and his clowns drop even one of our tens of thousands of nuclear bombs, and all hell will break loose. It will be like stirring up a beehive. The bitter tears will then flow like rivers. They are already beginning to flow on the unemployment lines and on the streets of the homeless.  Yes, and the tears will also be flowing in acknowledgement of our stupidity when it becomes too late to pull ourselves out of the mess that we have created."

      "I doubt that," said Steve and began to laugh. "If society doesn't recognize the principles of its potential now while we still have a highly developed civilization left, though it is fast failing, none of that will be recognized during the next Ice Age transition when mankind is shrinking back to a minuscule presence corresponding to the less than the five million that we had when the last Ice Age ended. What we throw away today will then seem so far out of sight that nobody will even dream about it. They won't shed any tears then over it. They'll be too busy crying over their miserable lot when they're starving to death."

      "Why then are we as stupid as we are, Steve?" I asked. "Right now we are on the fast track in that direction, playing mindless games on the train to oblivion and nobody is putting the breaks on. Doesn't that scare you?"

      "The human path has always been a path of a progressive development," Steve countered. "It is my hope that this pattern will continue. All we need is a decisive breakout from our slumber. We have the capacity at the leading edge of scientific and technological progress to create the kind of renaissance world in which the coming Ice Age won't have an affect on us. It may take a hundred years project to do that, but we have the potential to carry it out.  My point is that if we have that kind of a potential, Peter, to shift the entire world's agriculture into indoor facilities, then we certainly have the potential within us to snap out of our current economic crisis and stage a fundamental reversal before the crisis becomes a nightmare. With the enormous potential that we have within us to achieve the near impossible, like protecting our global society from the coming Ice Age that no species of life has ever been able to do in the entire history of the planet, then we also have the potential within us to do these little things that require so much less, such as applying the Universal Principle of Economics that has already been discovered and proven, and create a New World with it. Compared to that, getting rid of an incompetent President that likes to play King, isn't such a great task at all. That's what I mean with society needing to face reality. It also means that we begin to sin a new song as a people. Our old song, 'what is in it for me?' has to be changed to, 'what is in it for us, for mankind? The second question really answers the first. Ultimately our survival hinges on that question."

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