I also felt that our own little group had a lot to do with establishing the background for these types of comments, such as Tony's girl watching speech, and also those deeper breakthroughs that went beyond what could be presented on the speakers platform. Of course, many comments were directly lifted from what was presented on the platform, such as my call to make "contempt of humanity" a criminal act to be prosecuted with all the zeal that is usually applied to the prosecution of war crimes. Erica's call for a new world-economic order was another example of this category, that contained many variations that focused on the sovereignty of nations, the end of speculation, national banking for issuing development credits for infrastructures, for farming, for the sciences and industries, and the like. Another bunch of comments that were directly taken from the speeches of our group were centered on Erica's metaphor of the flower garden in overturning the social codes that force humanity to focus tightly on but a single flower, or in another context a single issue, a single perception, a single sphere and closes its eyes and minds towards the full scope of the human potential, and the beauty and the love of human beings that are endemic to us all. Many variations of this general theme were presented in the comments, relating to politics, business, finance, even science and technology.



      In only one regard did the respondents voice their reservations about a concept that our group had pioneered, and that reservation was about the concept's impact on children. This confusion, of course, was the result of an omission on our part. We had failed to develop the mutually enriching aspect of the wider view that tends to bridge the bounds of isolation that has many a single parent family confined to a state of economic impotence because of the financing, and the logistics involved with the caring for children. If these isolating bonds can be crossed with the spirit of the wider view as we have experienced it ourselves, a view that is reflected in the commitment to enrich one-another's existence, then the children that are drawn into this sphere cannot suffer but have their lives enriched as well, according to the needs of children.

      We should have pointed to the fact that the minds of children should be regarded as something most sacred, that children should be encouraged to embrace the brightest achievements of humanity in art, music, literature, in fundamental discoveries, in science, in understanding the tallest breakthroughs that cast down the barriers of mythologies, false religions, destructive ideologies. We should have acknowledged that children should be encouraged to replicate in their own curiosity for discovery the great discoveries of the geniuses of the past, thus to learn the process of discovery itself. We should have pointed out that this is how children should be educated, rather than being reared on a diet of politicized information, weapons mythology toys, mind destroying video orgies, and movie violence that kills a person's innate human sensibilities. We should have pointed out that the essential goal of a true humanist education is more likely achieved in an atmosphere that embraces the whole of humanity, deeply, than can be achieved in a mental atmosphere that is very much confined to narrow ranges of perspectives.

      In spite of this omission, that I felt terrible about, I felt we had much to celebrate in terms of our contribution to what this conference had achieved. I was sad, though, when I realized how little of all this was recognized and acknowledged by the whole of our English speaking group.

      There were twenty-one of us in this group, at this "victory dinner," including Anton, Erica, Erica's friend, and to my great surprise, Olive. We embraced each other, but she said this wasn't the time for such emotions. She said that she broke her own precepts by coming to the celebration. She said she simply had to come to let us know that we have exceeded her wildest expectations. She said that nobody in any government talks about property rights anymore. "The conference was created to establish by international treaties the primacy of property rights over human rights in the post crash era. All of this evaporated. The primacy of human rights has been established, and not by treaty, but as an understood fact. Never in history was so much overturned and so completely than was overturned during your conference," she said.

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