"Actually the term, disintegrate, is too mild to describe what is already happening as we move deeper into the sewer, especially in the financial arena," I interrupted Steve. "The world-financial system is fast becoming a sleazy casino. Hundreds of billions are now riding the dice every single day. We see blue-chip giants loosing their shirt in this casino-driven world where physical production doesn't count for anything anymore."

      "And that's how it is meant to be," said Steve. "When you see America's blue-chip giants loosing their credit rating in the imperial court of money bags, you can bet this is a coordinated effort in bringing the nation further to its knees, rather than to enrich it. And the real target is always the society at large. It always is. Do you know what it means to society when one of its blue-chip giants that was once deemed as solid as the rock of Gibraltar gets downgraded to junk-bond status? That means that all the pension funds that aren't allowed to hold junk bonds must sell their core assets at deep discounts, just to get rid of them, which the vultures then snap up for a song. That, all by itself, will unravel the whole imaginary value system if it continues unchecked. In addition, America, and with it much of the western world, is deeply locked into the imperial's financial-derivatives casinos where the gambling is a thousand times bigger than the physical economy. What we have happening there in comparative terms is a fleabite killing an elephant. The fleabite is the intentionally created financial insanity built on the cultural warfare efforts that America has been subjected to. America, the giant, refusing to defend itself, consequently dies."



      "The fleabite could also represent what we are going to unleash against the imperial's Empire to bring their house down," I said to Steve moments later and began to laugh. "If we can inject into this insane world a faint sense of reality it could have the potential of causing huge ripples that will take down the entire financial fairytale bubble, though it may be the biggest bubble of all times."

      "Don't dream, Peter," said Steve. "What you propose has never happened before. We are moving towards our self-destruction with breath-taking speed and with an absolute resolve to see this through. Of course, if you are serious instead of dreaming and are willing to devote yourself to actually doing what you are talking about, then great wonders are possible."

      "So, we face a paradox then," I said to Steve. "But why shouldn't we do this? The key to doing it is to pour flood tides of love onto the human scene. If love is a universal principle and empire is but the darkness of a void, why shouldn't the Principle of Universal Love enable us to illumine the dark void of empire with the light of our love as human beings?"



      Steve changed the subject. "Technically, one always ends up with a paradox, Pete, when one separates two elements that are inseparable by their very nature, like separating the world of finance from the physical economy. One ends up lying to oneself by splitting apart what is inherently one, creating a world of illusions that will eventually cause one to destroy everything that one has built, if not society altogether. But you are right, Peter, it doesn't have to come to the bitter end. The trend can be arrested. Love as a principle can cause people to step away from their tradition in stealing from one another and from looting the poor through slavery."

      "Another paradox is that this tragedy can be rather easily prevented while nobody cares enough to do it," I added.

      Steve nodded. He said that he continues to be amazed that everybody still clings to these insanely created illusions as to what the wealth of society is, since these illusions have been created to destroy society's real wealth. Steve suggested that it should be obvious to everyone by now that it doesn't really matter whether the financial aggregates that people hold in their portfolios are measured in trillions of dollars, or in hundreds of trillions, or in thousands of trillions of dollars. "If the physical economy is worth next to nothing in terms of its wealth-producing capacity for enriching society that the financial aggregates are a claim against, then all the financial aggregates in the world are likewise worth next to nothing. The simple reason for this is that nothing is being produced when the physical economy is collapsing that the financial aggregates could buy. Thereby, most of the laid-up aggregates have already become meaningless. In real terms that have become worthless."

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