Seascapes and Sand

a novel by Rolf A. F. Witzsche

Episode 4A of the series The Lodging for the Rose

Page 16

Chapter 1 - Snowflakes

      "We live in a world," he said, "that is filled with paradoxes that no one recognizes or cares enough to open his eyes to. Economically, humanity has shifted its focus away from the physical production of the things necessary for its daily existence -- away from creating and maintaining infrastructures and industries, including farming -- towards financial speculation on a scale that goes far beyond what is wagered at the roulette tables in casinos. By this trend humanity is loosing the physical foundation for its very existence, and it is rushing towards this tragedy by its own action, by its own insanity. It is happening on a vast scale without most people even recognizing that it is happening."

      He told us that he had found it paradoxical for a long time before the great financial crash had occurred in the West, that while the physical economy was collapsing, the financial portfolios were growing in leaps and bounds that represent this collapsing economy. He pointed out that the vastly inflated financial values that result from this ever-expanding swindle represent fundamentally a huge lie against the truth of the real situation in the world. "But people close their eyes to the real things," he said, "and lie to themselves. They don't see the reality that stares them in the face. And, like the Afghan refugees have experienced, they cannot escape the consequences of their naive denials of the truth that they should have recognized."



      The man lamented that the same was happening in education, which is the foundation for the future of humanity. "Education is being decimated for purely ideological reasons. The lack of money is just an excuse. Society is throwing its future away and blaming it on money so that they can cripple the children financially before they even come of age. Also, what goes for education has been reduced to match the environment of the world's decaying economy and its degenerating civilization. No school is teaching the art of making discoveries anymore and guide its pupils to relive the process of discovery achieved by the great pioneers in the unfolding history of mankind. That kind of teaching, which was pioneered by an institution called the Brotherhood of The Common Life, is the strategic force that broke the dark ages and gave us the Golden Renaissance. All of that is gone now, since there is no renaissance allowed that would eliminate empires. The dark age mentality has been reestablished with the destruction of real education."

      The professor lamented that the students are no longer taught to think, to discover, to learn the process of making fundamental discoveries. Instead, education has become smothered under the mantle of power, greed, and insanity, and been reduced to a process of disseminating information that may be politically correct, but is often actually fundamentally false, and this by intent in order to serve some imperial objectives. The man suggested that in this process of making people dumb, falsely called education, the students become diseducated. They loose the little humanity they had to begin with. He concluded that the resulting tragedy is fast becoming a platform on which society has doomed itself to collapse into a New Dark Age. He suggested that the outcome is in no way different than the fate of the refugees because of their refusal to protect themselves from a danger of war that they couldn't see.

      He said that he was also disgusted with the way that health-care was collapsing around the world. "A person's right to live is no longer deemed absolute," he said. "Whether a person lives of dies has become a matter of cost-effectiveness. If it costs too much to save a person's life, then, according to the modern axioms, one should aid the affected person to die efficiently. The next step will be to provide no choice whatsoever." He said that this impossible seeming trend to ever-greater insanity is here. "It's here now! Weighing human life against the cost to maintain it is already being discussed in a big way in the imperial halls around the world. The discussion is conducted secretly of course."


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