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"So you see, you are saying it yourself," Tatsuhiko replied. "Love gets squeezed out of the world everywhere. Its space is getting smaller and smaller. People want what they want, even if it means hurting one-another to the point of killing or looting one-another. That reflects itself everywhere. Love gets squeezed out of the marriages, too. Society runs them like corporations now, focused on stockholder values, rather than being focused on enriching and uplifting one-another's life. There shouldn't be such a thing as marital rape and spousal murder, but it's become common. This paradox should never have come up. Even jealousy shouldn't be possible within the sphere of love, but it is becoming every more widely spread, because that sphere has become smaller and smaller, infinitesimal almost. It's Adam Smith again, parading in a different garment."
"I know what you mean," said Olive. "If something nice happens to a spouse, like a new love unfolding, people should rejoice over this in their love for one-another. Instead, all hell breaks loose. There is no real love left, is there? Even that, which barely resembles love, is becoming more and more rare. I can't image this happening in your marriage. Your marriage is built on universal love. The way I see it, it would likely be still the same if your family was now made up of only two people. Once one embraces the Principle of Universal Love, one can't go back."
"The USA is aiming to do this. It had committed itself to go backwards in giant steps, to destroy the very foundation on which it has been established," said Tatsuhiko. "If it hadn't been for the Principle of Universal Love and universal sovereignty that came out of the Treaty of Westphalia, that is now being torn to shreds in the USA, the USA would have never been created. But all of that is gone now; gone with the wind; and so the nation, too, becomes endangered to be lost."
"Unfortunately, the USA has never really embraced the Principle of Universal Love on which its General Welfare Principle is rooted," I said to Tatsuhiko. "The USA was founded on the intellectual achievements of the leading edge pioneers of Europe. I don't think the American society has ever truly committed itself to live up to the principles of which it was created. If it had, the Principle of Universal Love would be established and be an unwritten constitution, and America's continuing existence as a nation-state republic would be secure.
"But can't we roll back the clock and make up for what we lost?" Tony interjected, as he had joined us again.
"No, Tony! I wouldn't want to roll back the clock," said Olive spontaneously, almost interrupting him. "That is why we have come together here. What we had in the past wasn't good enough, not by a long shot. That's why we no longer have it. It was mediocre, emotional. We have to go beyond even the best of what we had. We have a totally different goal. A much tougher goal; a goal that has never been chosen as a goal before; that has never even been recognized as possible and achievable. We are not looking for more love, we aiming to establish universal love as a social and political reality, and as a practical platform for sex. We can't afford to look merely for a new sunrise, Tony. Our aim must be to draw the whole human society into the full brilliance of the glare of the noon-day sun."
I just nodded and smiled. This was Olive speaking, all right. I knew that these words were not idle words with her. She meant every bit of what she said, and she meant to reach those goals as she always had in the past. I wondered if Tony realized that. He raised an eyebrow when Olive demanded that sex too, be founded on the platform of the Principle of Universal Love.
"I have heard about all the wonderful things that have happened with Pete and Antonovna at the Caracas Conference," said Indira, "and about all the developments that came before and afterwards. I was filled with joy to hear about them."
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