Without Free, Self-respecting, And Autonomous Citizens There

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.

Man Is In Fact Nailed Down - Like Christ On The Cross - To A Grid Of Paradoxes. He Balances Between The Torment Of Not Knowing His Mission And The Joy Of Carrying It Out, Between Nothingness And Meaningfulness. And Like Christ, He Is In Fact Victorious By Virtue Of His Defeats.

The United Nations Would Probably Have To Rest On Two Pillars: One Constituted By An Assembly Of Equal Executive Representatives Of Individual Countries, Resembling The Present Plenary, And The Other Consisting Of A Group Elected Directly By The Globe's Population In Which The Number Of Delegates Representing Individual Nations Would, Thus, Roughly Correspond To The Size Of The Nations.

Ultimately, Power Only Really Listens To Power, And If Government Is To Be Improved, We Must Be Able To Threaten Its Existence, Not Merely Its Reputation.

We Must Come To Understand The Deep Mutual Connection Or Kinship Between The Various Forms Of Our Spirituality. We Must Recollect Our Original Spiritual And Moral Substance, Which Grew Out Of The Same Essential Experience Of Humanity. I Believe That This Is The Only Way To Achieve A Genuine Renewal Of Our Sense Of Responsibility For Ourselves And For The World. And At The Same Time, It Is The Only Way To Achieve A Deeper Understanding Among Cultures That Will Enable Them To Work Together In A Truly Ecumenical Way To Create A New Order For The World.