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I suggested that the great cultural explosion of beautiful developments that came out of the Golden Renaissance might offer a path for her to get her humanity back. Her humanity is her life as a human being. I asked her to consider the music from Bach to Brahms that emerged from the revival of that renaissance."
"That might help," said Ushi, "but she didn't suffer this alone. We see the same now happening more and more in the form of police state persecutions in many places around the world where the protector of society becomes society's enemy. Bach and Mozart seem to be too distant from this modern hell."
"Maybe its shouldn't seem distant," I interjected. "Their music remains valid as a bridge to what we have already lost again. And maybe this distance has been artificially created through cultural warfare in order to prevent us from getting our humanity back. How else would the imperials get society to willing swallow their rape of mankind in war that is now back on the agenda with no victory over war in sight. Bach seems as distant today as the Peace of Westphalia in which Bach uplifted the face of music. Look at the faces of war today, and look at what is now called music; one reflects the other. We are being raped on both fronts."
I also see it in finance and economics," said Ushi, "and in religion, and in the still ongoing practice of torture in the world, soft or hard. Anton suffered similar torture. I can appreciate why she couldn't dance with me. She feared that the 'violence' in her past would hurt her again. Love had become 'violence' in her experience. Will this wound ever fully heal, Ushi?"
Ushi nodded. "It will heal, Peter. You may have already started the process of healing by talking with her, and standing beside her. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about the national rape that America suffered and still does. Who stands up for America? Who stands with the American people side by side?"
"Who could even do this," I said, "when the people themselves don't stand side by side with one another? We live in a vertical world that is becoming evermore fascist. When the imperial's Hitler project backfired, America responded with a great commitment in love to bail out the whole world and the Fondi Empire with it, but as soon as the war on the battlefield was stopped, the Empire resumed its war against America. Within days after President Roosevelt had been in the grave all of his cooperative arrangements with Russia were being scrapped. Instead of the world-development that Roosevelt had envisioned and had almost promised, the world had been subjected to nuclear terror by American hands."
"This wound too hasn't healed yet," said Ushi. "America has been raped by the imperials, as surely as the German nation has been raped by the Nazis. They destroyed America's love. They coerced it into building the bomb and coaxed it into using it against defenseless cities. No one had managed to stop them. And even then America built tens of thousands more, and once again no one could stop the madness to the very day."
"Our youth has protested, but the protesters were arrested," said I.
"It was the same when Germany was raped by the Nazi machine, said Ushi, "only that case was worse. Millions of people were butchered to death by the Nazi's underlings that had lost their humanity, and quite a few thousand that refused to butcher other people to death were executed themselves. I've been told that over ten thousand of Germany's own people were killed by the Nazis, because they refused to kill, and four hundred thousand others were severely punished to force them into line. Thus, the universal butchering of millions proceeded without anyone being able to stop it. The larger Nazi madness became 'domestic violence' on an unimaginable scale, which prevented society from putting a stop to it. What Anton suffered was of the same sort, only softer and smaller."
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