"Me, too, said Olive. In fact, it was for that very reason, to bring that about, that I had instigated the Caracas conference in the first place. Right Peter?" she said and winked at me. "It was a gift of love from me to the world, in every possible sense of it."

      I simply nodded. "It was that," I agreed.

      "But that's not enough anymore," Olive replied. "Even that sort of thing is too small a goal now, because not enough good resulted from it. What we have seen and experienced in Caracas was great, but it was only comparable to a sunrise. We can't allow ourselves to be satisfied with that. Plato always demanded that we look for the noonday sun, and that we never stop asking what the next steps must be. In our case those next steps must be directed towards a fuller understanding, and a fuller experience of the dimension of universal love and universal sovereignty, both in marriage and in sex, and in everything else as well."

      Olive repeated again that we have to make up today for what had been missed during the Renaissance for which the Renaissance collapsed, which has been missed again at the time of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which also collapsed for the same reason. "Society, not only has never implemented the principles of universal love and universal sovereignty in the social and sexual domains, but it has never even contemplated that possibility seriously. I think society came closer to that through the Treaty of Westphalia, and it might have even succeeded eventually, had the British Empire not started the French Revolution in order to kill the intellectual elite of France, which had promoted this principle. Any further development of this principle would have indeed endangered the empire's very foundation with its republican notion of the General Welfare and Universal Love, and the idea of Universal Sovereignty. History tells us that the ruling imperial oligarchy of the British East India Company effectively shut down any further development of these principles, almost in mid-stream, in order to protect its power over society. It was as if society had been forced to stop living. Since that time, we have never really gotten anything moving again anywhere in the world along the lines of the Principle of Universal Love, except in the most superficial manner. Even in America, the nation's own founding principles were never fully embraced after that, probably as the result of this imperial intervention in history."

      I didn't protest or add to what Olive had said. I felt she was totally correct in what she was saying, except in what she said about Caracas. In Caracas Tony had dared to stand up and boldly attempt to invalidate Adam Smith without even knowing that he did so. Why should this bold beginning be discounted? Or was this too, still but a part of the sunrise?

     



      "The Caracas Conference was a milestone," Olive continued. "A deeply rooted development was started there, in the social domain, of the kind that we should have seen unfolding in the years immediately after 1648. Unfortunately, the conference is over and the world grinds on, as Fred has put it. This means that we mustn't see the conference as anything more than just a milestone. We must go on. We must go further. We must inspire the whole of humanity to follow this course. Our love must be so big that we embrace huge goals, even if we face mortal dangers on the way like Nicolai is facing right now. Nicolai has launched a war against the financial oligarchy, and he is fighting this war around the world in an effort to rescue Africa by organizing the global society to establish a new development oriented world-financial system. That's dangers stuff, but is also in the domain of love where great things can happen. He is boldly grabbing the lion's beard and staring it into the eye with the full recognition that he understands their game and demands them to drop it. That's pretty big love, right? It is big, because Nicolai knows that this tidal wave for an equitable change that he has set in motion, will never stop, even if he can't seen the final victory himself. There is nothing timid about what Nicolai is doing. If he dies in the process, he will still keep on fighting."

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