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It Would Appear That The Traditional Parliamentary Democracies Can Offer No Fundamental Opposition To That Automatism Of Technological Civilization And The Industrial-consumer Society, For They Too Are Being Dragged Helplessly Along By It. People Are Manipulated In Ways That Are Infinitely More Subtle And Refined Than The Brutal Methods Used In Post-totalitarian Societies.

Planetary Democracy Does Not Yet Exist But Our Global Civilization Is Already Preparing A Place For It. It Is The Very Earth We Inhabit Linked With Heaven Above Us. Only In This Setting Can The Mutuality And The Commonality Of The Human Race Be Newly Created With Reverence And Gratitude For That Which Transcends Each Of Us And All Of Us Together.

The Worst Thing Is That We Live In A Contaminated Moral Environment. We Fell Morally Ill Because We Became Used To Saying Something Different From What We Thought. Concepts Such As Love, Friendship, Compassion, Humility Or Forgiveness Lost Their Depth And Dimension.

In Any Case, Ideals Are Something We Strive For; They Are Somewhere On The Horizon Of Our Efforts; They Provide Meaning And Direction; They Are Not, However, Static Quotas That We Either Fulfill Or Do Not.

You May Ask What Kind Of A Republic I Dream Of. Let Me Reply: I Dream Of A Republic Independent, Free, And Democratic, Of A Republic Economically Prosperous And Yet Socially Just; In Short, Of A Humane Republic Which Serves The Individual And Which Therefore Holds The Hope That The Individual Will Serve It In Turn. Of A Republic Of Well-rounded People, Because Without Such It Is Impossible To Solve Any Of Our Problems, Human, Economic, Ecological, Social, Or Political.