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The only thing that Rome, as an empire, didn't defeat and destroy, was the humanist intellectual tradition that had flourished before Rome became a fascist power. Somehow this tradition survived in far away hidden places. In the late 1300s, after the great financial crisis in 1345 had weakened the population of Europe and the Black Plaque had swept through the lands in the aftermath so that half of the population of Europe perished, a reverse paradigm shift was set in motion. That movement started a shift back to what had been established during the age of the great humanist intellectual tradition centered on the Greek Classical Era.
In the wake of the Black Death catastrophe, the people were searching for what it all means to be a human being. They found answers in Plato's writings and in the ideas of Socrates. This happened long before books were printed. The ancient manuscripts had to be copied manually. The monasteries performed this functions, and to aid in this work, certain boys became taught to read and write, to help copy the manuscripts, who thereby became independent thinkers in their own right.
I told Jacky that once the utility of this process was recognized, a formal teaching order was created, called the Brotherhood of the Common Life. It was set up to provide a high level humanist education, and that process worked well. It created quite a few geniuses. The people who were taught in this manner, in turn, laid the foundation for the kind of thinking that created the Renaissance. On this basis, the Renaissance became one of the greatest eras of scientific and spiritual development in mankind's universal history.
I told Jacky that in scientific terms, the Renaissance was therefore the direct result of a deliberate reverse paradigm shift, a shift back to the old humanist intellectual tradition of Classical Greece, a reverse shift that bridged across the entire thirteen centuries of intervening dark ages.
I also pointed out to Jacky that the principle of the reverse paradigm shift was actually already established during the classical age. We see the principle illustrated in Christ Jesus' parable of the prodigal son that deals precisely with that kind of reverse shift issue.
I pointed out, that after the Venetian Empire had successfully destroyed the Renaissance, like the Roman Empire before it, which resulted in this case in eighty years of war, a second reverse paradigm shift occurred that linked this war torn, collapsing society, back to the closes historical bright era that existed, that of the Renaissance intellectual tradition.
I told Jacky that it was during this second reverse paradigm shift that the principle of universal love and universal sovereignty were put on the map as a combined world-constitutional principle. "This is what the people resorted to," I said. "They had become desperate for a measure to shut down the wars that had been ranging endlessly and were destroying Europe. They couldn't sink any lower. They had no option left to them, except to lift themselves up. Now we are at the crossroads again. We are on the fast track towards a new period of dark ages, worse than the Thirty Years War, that none of us may survive. We face a foe in ambush that China is too naïve to acknowledge. China is the Number One target in an asymmetric war in which it can be destroyed without a single soldier crossing its borders. The old rules no longer apply, nor does it matter whether China even regards itself as being at war. It is."
I told Jacky that effectiveness of this reverse shift principle was astounding, because it enabled in 1648 a peace treaty that included the total forgiveness of debts, and acknowledgement of universal sovereignty, something that no other treaty in history has achieved since. I pointed out to Jacky that the establishment of the principles behind the treaty, the principles of universal love and universal sovereignty, as a constitutional platform, may be seen to the present day as the tallest achievement in mankind's humanist intellectual tradition in its entire universal history. Nothing has yet superseded it. I suggested that even the U.S. Federal Constitution is merely an echo of it, though this echo has been the foundation for momentous economic and cultural achievements.
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