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Chapter 8 - Expanding Circles."If you want to tour the United States with an economics lecture, you need help," I told Nicolai the next time we met. We were talking on the balcony. "Economics has become an emotional issue with Americans. There are a lot of hotheads out there in America. The process of stealing from one-another, demanding huge profits from one-another, that sort of thing, has become a national pass-time. You want to tell them to level wealth with honesty, which is noble, but if you do that, won't you embrace the Byzantine model of top down control. If you do that, you are bound to fail. What you want to tell them has been demanded for a hundred years already by America's own, and by the very best, but no one has listened so far. If you tell the hotheads that they should reconsider the basis of their imagined wealth, they will laugh you to scorn and consider you their enemy, even if you are trying to save their skin. This is America, Nicolai. In America people don't think very far. They are not accustomed to it. They haven't been allowed to do that for a long time. They have been trained shoot from the hip." Nicolai raised his hand to stop me. "I agree with you," I said. "I know these issues need to be brought up, even if they have been brought up before, but not by an elite who tells people how to think and what to regard as the truth. Society has been spoon-fed for so long. And now you want to continue that, but change their diet. Isn't that what you are aiming at?" Nicolai laughed. "No, I don't want to spoon feed anyone. That technique applies only to lies. That's how you spread lies. The truth spreads itself. Still, the American people need to be confronted with the truth, as does the whole world," said Nicolai. "Our precious world-financial system is bankrupt, it's dust, it is kept alive only in dreams, and in the real world by increasing cycles of looting and hyperinflating the currencies, which is another form of looting. You don't have to convince anybody of that reality when the foundation of their existence evaporates. Also, they will understand that they have to change course when they find themselves on the highway to hell, rather than intensifying their effort in the same direction. Communicating the truth is a lateral process. It is the same process as love. Ones understanding of the truth becomes a light that lightens the world. You don't have to spoon feed the world with it. Communicating the truth is never a vertical affair, Peter. It never is. Heather understands this. That's the most basic element about economics," said Nicolai, "that you don't have to push the right thing. How else can you change an entire nation? How do you think the United States of America was created by a bunch of exploited farmers? It certainly wasn't created by spoon feeding everybody." "Heather told that?" I asked. "Heather agreed with me totally," said Nicolai, "in her own way, and she was totally right in saying what she said. She said to me that all people need to be told the truth. They need to be told that their pensions are at risk; their jobs are at risk; that even their entire livelihood is at risk. She said to me that there is hell to pay if the bankrupt system isn't taken down smoothly and intelligently in a global bankruptcy reorganization, in order to save whatever is left of the real economy. She understands that." "I know what you are saying," I said to Nicolai, "but how many other people would say that? Not many to be sure. Not yet, anyway. That's why I think we must help you. We must all help one-another, but most of all we must address the world laterally as you said, not vertically as under the Byzantine model. I didn't fully realize that when I made my Byzantine speech in Moscow. I adopted the Byzantine model, to fight the Byzantine model." || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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