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Tony raised his had as if to interrupt, but let it drop again.
"The problem is that we, society, have made a big deal out of this little bit of specialization. We've built an entire mythology of incompleteness around it, by which we've become divided. But there is no truth in it, Tony. The fact is the whole of humanity is represented in each one of us, both the male and the female aspects, together. They are all there. The only difference that I can see is that some of us majored as male, and some of us as female. The decision for this is probably made at random, long before fertilization takes place, a kind of flip-flop type decision that is carried forward in chromosomes, which later determine the specialization divergence near the end of the primary development cycle of the fetus. This means that we are all human beings. No one is lesser or greater, or incomplete."
I suggested to him that the process of uniting male and female in sexual union doesn't make anyone's life more complete than it ever has been.
"The completeness is already there," I said. "The most that we can do by joining together in sexual union, is to celebrate of our common humanity, just as students in the universities join together for their common graduation celebration. They are all graduates together. If we look at sex in that way with a sense of universal completeness, the door suddenly opens to the Principle of Universal Love. Universal love becomes the most natural thing then, when we celebrate our common humanity and our common completeness in that humanity, the one humanity there is, that we all share."
Tony nodded and raised his hand again. "Admit it, Pete," he said. "I'm right. The Lord of the Ring saga has nothing to do with that, with sex as you have just described it."
"Oh it has," I replied. "That is what the whole saga may have been all about. The metaphor certainly fits."
"How?" Tony interjected.
"As I told you, the notion that sex conjures up a feeling of individual incompleteness is very old, very deep seated, it has evidently been developed in distant ages. It may have started there as a silent flame that eventually kindled a larger fire in which a whole pyramid of politically motivated evil was born. In the ring saga, the dark lord Sauron who lived in those distant ages, represents that fire of a false perception. In the real world this dark lord may be Aristotle who forged in this fire his theory of the natural slavery of mankind. He took the notion of incompleteness and extended it further and created a mythology from it, centered on subhuman beings that he called the natural slaves, and superhuman beings that he called the natural masters. From that Aristotle forged the notion that the slave is blessed by the dominance of his master, because he benefits in that relationship from his master's virtue that he lacks."
"What does that prove?" Tony interrupted.
"It proves that the ring was born at this point. On the basis of Aristotle's grand lie a whole cycle of cascading evil was conjured up by countless disciples of him who embraced that lie and extended it further. This is what the ring represents, Tony. Tolkien has wisely chosen when he named the dark lord, Sauron. In the German language, "sau" is the term for a mother of pigs. Aristotle, or rather his theory based on human incompleteness, should be seen that way, as the mother of pigs. That mother had suckled countless pigs. Many had names, such as Hobbes, who represented a whole school of war philosophers who all declared that man is naturally evil because of his incompleteness, and must therefore give up his sovereignty to a sovereign king to rule over him and society, for his own benefit in order to prevent an explosion of evil. These children of the sau also coined the notion that love has no place in the affairs of state and business."
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