wa y than you're attacking them... and Jews, and Iranians, doctors, and all
religions for that matter."
"Those who are free of fear will understand me, and the brave will
strive to be free, just as you are attempting to do in the only way it can be
done—by discovering and facing the truth. As I have said many times,"
she bumped my shoulder, "I'm not attacking you or any culture. I‘m
talking about how they created the way things are."
She slowed her pace, stopping short of a three-foot diameter, twenty-
five foot log. Apparently pondering how much she was going to tell me,
she said, "America is in a unique position to facilitate global changes, but
not through their military might; that is the means of their downfall. I‘ll
come back to that. For now, it‘s enough to know that they have the
economic influence, and a particular population needed to create a wave of
new thinking. They also have a massive pool of uncorrupted courage to
make the changes that will be required of them to survive."
"Only them?"
"America can lead, because it is their lesson. The population chose it,
and now it is their time." She stepped to the log, brushed the top of its
worn surface, and sat down. I did the same.
"The free among your audience might agree with you," I said,
bumping her shoulder lightly, "but the rest will see your views as a
personal attack because, as you‘ve said, they‘ve lost too much to their
indoctrinations to change their thinking. I think our movie won‘t be made,
or you‘ll be shot. Maybe both," I added as the thought arrived.
"Between being told what to fear and what to overlook, leading a
nation into bankruptcy through greed and warfare isn‘t difficult. When
that reaches the tipping point, a spark will set fire to the myths they have
been defending so vigorously as to give away that they are myths." She
looked across the inlet toward Point Atkinson. "There are a lot of sparks
awaiting solid fuel—many more than any government would care to
admit, or are aware of, because they‘ve used them and thrown them away
as well. They‘ll be a formidable force when they organize."
"But you‘re not advocating that," I teased her.
"I have not lived their experience, so I have no voice."
Uncomfortably, I said, "You were saying wars are scripted long in
advance—that we don‘t want peace?"
She looked my way. "I‘m saying the Players don‘t want a healthy
population, or peace in particular, because there‘s no money in it
compared to the alternative. We‘ve been following their scripts into debt
and degradation for decades."
