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"When Helen talks about economic development as an element of our joy," said Heather, "I suppose she really means the entire ecology of human development."
"Universal economic development appears to be the most representative aspect of it," I replied. "If we let go of our humanity, no economic development takes place, the physical economy collapses and people die. I am sure, the sexual dimension is similarly affected."
"Tony's girl watching speech will reflect all of this?" Heather asked astonished.
"Of course not, Heather. A little bit, maybe. But he will open the door, and maybe next week, or next month, when people begin to reflect on what he will say and ask themselves questions, they will attempt to draw every aspect of it together. I'll have to lay the groundwork for this. I'll have to play the role of Homer. Homer set out in around 600 BC to create a high level language in Greece, in order to enable the people there to think in complex terms. They needed to be able to do this as a platform for scientific development, which they needed in order get themselves out of those oppressive mythologies. They needed to be able to think in human terms in order to be able to create a nation. Out of that nation that came Socrates and Plato, and a few hundred years later Christ Jesus emerged in the background. If I do my job right, Tony's speech can have quite an impact on a whole lot of people. Unfortunately, I didn't do anything right, way back then, when our love affair started. Hopefully, I'll do better this time at the conference"
"Right, we had taken a few daring footsteps, and suddenly we didn't know how to go on," Heather replied. "We had no one to turn to, especially not during our last day at the Sandcastle."
"Actually we had all the help we could have ever wanted. We just didn't bother to look, Heather. We had Homer, but we didn't hear him. We had Socrates and Plato, but we didn't think. We had Christ Jesus, but we didn't bother to even look. I had told you about Helen, but we had both ignored her. We didn't know about Mary then. But apart from that, we had the foundation beneath our feet that civilization was built on. We didn't need another Homer, another Socrates, another Plato, or another Jesus, or whoever. Their work was done and will forever remain complete for what it was. We just didn't know what we had available to us. We had been waiting for something to happen that never came. It didn't even dawn on me then that Helen had defined the element of our economic development as the element of our joy. I might have focused more on generosity right there and then. This breakthrough would have saved us untold agonies."
"I think we were too fixated on Helen's concept of the universal kiss," Heather interjected. "We never spoke much about it, but all of our days together evolved around the wonderful freedom this concept inspired."
"Helen called it the element of our peace," I added.
"There was a beautiful peace in that love, Peter, but that alone wasn't enough, was it?"
"This idea would have been enough," I said to Heather in a quiet tone of voice. "It would have been enough to see us through if it had been scientifically developed by us, and not just by Helen. We never really got this development going in all those years that lay in between until Ross brought Mary's work onto the scene. We've come through a dozen years of agony, in spite of our beautiful beginning. I am just glad that you didn't give up on me for all this time while I had my hands and feet bound with religious traditions that will control us unless we are in control ourselves."
"I had hoped for a long time that we would get back to the way we were," said Heather. "We were so carefree and bewildered, and drunken with a love we didn't understand. We were living in the clouds in more ways than one. Eventually, I realized that we had to move forward to build that foundation that had never been developed."
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