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Chapter 7 - The Byzantine SpeechThe next morning, to my great surprise, I found my name on the conference schedule. I was scheduled to present my findings on the Thousand-Year Anniversary of the Christianization of Russia. I was scared. I was totally unprepared for this. Anton may have felt that I had made those presentations a thousand times before, while the opposite was true. In order to pull the thing off, I repeated what I had presented to Anton in the restaurant, as far as I could remember it. I focused especially on what I had said about the nature of Soviet Russia as a reflection of Byzantine orthodoxy. I summarized what I said, by pointing out in unmistakable terms that there exist only two models for people relating to one another, the vertical model and the lateral model. No other models exist or are possible. I said that the vertical model is about dealing with the truth, and the lateral model is about responding to the truth. "If we know the truth about our humanity," I said, "and respect the truth, we find ourselves standing side by side with one-another on a lateral platform that reflects the Principle of Universal Love, because that is the truth of the human dimension. There is no choice involved at this level. The truth is the truth. We don't make the truth. We can only acknowledge it. That's our renaissance. But we are not there yet, and to get there we utilize science. Science is a vertical process. Science, through discovery, reason, honesty, and integrity, is our open door to understanding the truth. That is why scientific and technological development is progressive. And that makes science the upper part of the vertical model, the civilizational part of it. But there is a lower part to the vertical model that represents the exact opposite of science. It is the model of top-down domination of mankind that puts mankind into the dust of the Earth and the truth out of reach, with an intermediary in the middle that dominates mankind with lies. That's the imperial model whose song it is, 'In lies we trust!' The lower part of the vertical model, below the moral level, thereby becomes the model of top-down domination, prominently represented by the Byzantine ideology that is itself rooted in the Roman Empire, which turned Christianity upside down and championed the perversion as a state religion that puts the Emperor in control by divine right." I pointed out that Soviet Union is about to celebrate Russia's thousand year subjugation to this system, which is reflected in the political structure of the Soviet Union as well as in many governments in the West, including the USA in modern times. It is the model for war and nuclear war, and for all the fascist imperial structures that support it, and the rape of mankind that flows out from it. I pointed out that with mankind living under this model no one on the planet is free, East or West, rich or poor. I explained that the other model, the lateral model, is the model that reflects the Principle of Universal Love, which is to some degree reflected in the General Welfare Principle of the Federal Constitution of the USA. I said that this Constitution was a gem created in a time when science and truth meant something to society. I suggested that those days had evidently ended, both in Russia and in America. That is why we see our leaders in America trashing our Constitution and regard it as a god-dam piece of paper. They are not saying this yet openly, but they are acting that way. Their actions are glaring testimonies of their perception. We have the same in the Soviet Union. Its leaders speak the words of communism, but their actions reflect fascist imperialism. I pointed out that the lateral model is rarely implemented anymore anywhere in the world, since it is by its very nature an anti-imperial model. But it is the model of every renaissance. If we want to have another renaissance the lateral model becomes indispensable. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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