"You are saying then that the onus for enriching society ultimately doesn't fall onto the shoulders of government? Is that what you are saying?" I said quietly.

      "Of course that's what I am saying," said Steve. "The onus falls on society itself. The governments always reflect society. How strong is society's love for one-another? That is the real question. If society embraces itself in that love, no government can launch a war or impose policies for private stealing and for the death for millions."



      "I see very little of that kind of love," I said to Steve after a few moments of thinking about it. "As I said, mostly people don't give a damn about anyone but themselves. And that's not love."

      "That's not possible," Steve interjected. "If people truly cared about themselves as a human beings, they would find that living without the Principle of Universal Love is not an option, but is dangerous poverty and inhumanity that will kill them. People cannot live that way. Humanity and its Principle of Universal Love are one. Without this principle humanity dies. While this is not recognized anymore in our time, all isn't lost yet, Peter. We, as society, do carry the responsibility for the world in which we live. This may yet become apparent when the dream world falls apart that people live in and reality reasserts itself again. The dream of fascist prosperity is doomed to end. It is still possible for this reality to be recognized before the consequences of the long dreaming overwhelm society. One way or another, society will determine for itself what kind of world it will live in. If it drops this responsibility it will suffer by default as Germany did by allowing Hitler to rule. Yes, the German nation was trapped by Goebbel's propaganda. In a dream state this is possible, but in an a state of consciousness ruled by the Principle of Universal Love this mental entrapment would not have been possible."

      "I agree, the environment of the Principle of Universal Love is a fragile environment in its early stages," I interjected, "but right now one can find hardly a trace of this principle anymore, certainly not as one should find it. Almost nobody cares, Steve."

      "That is why civilization will likely disintegrate in due course as it did in Hitler's Germany. In Hitler's Germany, the people were not victims of Hitler. That came later. First and foremost they were victims of their own foolishness. If the people of a nation don't have enough love for themselves as human beings that they take whatever steps may be necessary to remove those defective leaders from power, then society isn't fit to survive, and it won't survive. A fascist leader in power is like an elephant in a china shop. It you want to protect what is precious, get the elephant out. The people in Germany failed to do this. We are failing the same way all over the world now, and that's only the beginning. In our modern world, people have become even more deeply corrupted than the people had been under Hitler. Now people sooner steal from one-another and tear each other down, by which they loose their civilization and the foundation for their existence, than to create riches for one-another by building a richer world. We are far from living in a democracy in which people take responsibility for their existence."

      "I know what you're getting at," I interrupted Steve. "You are saying that the train of all the historic tragedies was set into motion, not by men from Mars, but by society itself when it allowed itself to become little people, underlings, paying homage to their empire gods, gods of greed, and force, and destruction. They honor Hobbes and Adam Smith today, the man who outlawed love. How much sadder can things get?"

      "Right, Peter. Don't love one-another, love that gold! That's the new prayer song! Are you surprised then that our government reflects this?" Steve asked. "That's what I see happening in America all the way to the top, to the very President of the nation," said Steve, "just as it is happening in many other places. What you see in today's world would never be possible anywhere if society were like the Samaritan or even be supporting its Samaritans. Then society would do everything possible to uplift and defend its humanity anywhere in the world, and heal what needs healing. If there were a deep love in society for its humanity, society would create itself the type of government that would be mandated to provide education for all; universal health care; low cost financing for its advancing industries and its infrastructures for living, such as sufficient housing and efficient transportation infrastructures. Yes Peter, the Samaritan represents the General Welfare Principle, and the Principle of the Universal Brotherhood of All Mankind, and the Principle of Universal Love. This Samaritan isn't supported. This means that society isn't supporting itself. The Samaritan represents all of these principles, the only foundation that exists in the universe with the substance to support a human civilization. That foundation, although it was probably not scientifically understood, was most likely the platform that enabled humanity to survive the many ice ages it had to face throughout its 2.5 million-year history. Otherwise no one might have survived. Ironically our global society is now in the process of scrapping all of that and expects to face the return of the Ice Age without it, with a ten-billion world population that will be running out of food when the cold climate beings and agriculture becomes disabled thereby. Society must be insane to expect to be able to survive that way. Society is in need of a deep reaching healing."

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