"Platitudes, platitudes!" said Indira.

      "No, no! What you call platitudes is a the minimal starting point. Physical poverty is a breeding ground for diseases. When the European financial system collapsed in 1345 it caused such a deep poverty that the Black Plaque swept across Europe two years later that wiped out a third of the population. Africa is at this stage again, but airborne diseases know no boundaries. The world is at risk thereby. India has the same kind of deep poverty. If we don't fight for civilization globally, we won't have any at all. There is no such thing as a local fix anymore. It is crazy to say that uranium bombs are OK because they only kill people locally, in the theatres of war. The radioactive dust that is so fine that it is invisible is in the atmosphere globally affects people globally. It attacks the human DNA, but it also attacks the DNA of viruses and bacteria and pests, creating exotic new diseases in the process, like the Avian Flu, or the Morgellons Fiber disease. The great truths that have been recognized for so long already that they have become platitudes are vital aspects that now require urgent attention. The Dalits' problem is a part of that larger problem. Therefore, it cannot be resolved in isolation. It is a part of a universal problem that has not yet been addressed in a meaningful manner. It can only be fully addressed when it is addressed globally on the universal level with large-scale infrastructure and industrial development right around the world. The Dalits' problem is merely another image of the same problem that is presently destroying Africa and other places by imperial policy, and is endangering humanity as a whole. Humanity has sunk into a rut and allows this to happen to itself. Most people say that the life of others is not my concern. I am not married to them. Society needs to get out of this self-isolation mode. It needs to achieve the globalization of its humanity in order to survive, and that includes every one of us, wherever we may be. That is also what the Dalits need for them to be able to have a free and productive existence. That is what we all need. That is what the medical van symbolizes. That's its great value. I am hoping that it may inspire a few people to stir themselves to get out of the global collective rut."

      Indira raised her hand as if to protest, saying that I was dreaming.

      I cut her off. "I am talking about big developments here, global developments that I must be put forward internationally to complement our individual efforts. Our work in India is a vital element in the overall scheme of things. It is needed to create a paradigm shift in people's thinking at the local level. You'll be carrying on with this when I'm gone back to America, while I must put the fight onto the global level towards the same goal that necessarily involves something really big."

      Indira shook her head in disbelief. "My God, how far do you intend to push this, Peter?" she said astonished. "How big is 'really big?'"

      "How big is 'really big?'" I repeated. "The Taj Mahal is said to have taken twenty-two years to be built with a workforce of twenty-thousand people. A fleet of a thousand elephants is said to have been needed to transport the materials to the construction site from all over India, China, and Central Asia, and it probably happened long before that days of Shaw Jahan, possibly as far back as 800 years ago. That was a really big effort, wasn't it? But that was nothing in comparison with what must be accomplished with the Principle of Universal Love to inspire the needed renaissance that ends the age of empires and war; that enables global economic development and ends poverty. In order to eradicate poverty all over the world, which presently threatens all mankind, we need large-scale economic infrastructures projects that stretch from the Bering Strait to Spain and into Africa and India; that connect China with America as well as with the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. A land bridge must be build across the Bering Strait via a tunnel into North and South America. I am talking about the economic development of the whole world, based on the utilization of new political and physical principles. I am talking about new forms of nuclear energy; new transportation and water technologies; new mineral resources; hundreds of entirely new cities as new platforms for the societies of the world to live and to relate to one-another as human beings. That's big! However, Indira, nothing less will do."

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