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As it was, instead of this goal becoming realized, colonialism and imperialism won once again the upper hand. With Roosevelt out of the way (some say he was murdered by a clever assassin) the British Empire, that Roosevelt had hoped to dismantle, became the world controlling force that it still is to the present day. In the shadow of this imperial 'success' the virtue of generosity became replaced with an orgy of legalized looting by means of financial speculation that soon destroyed the livelihood of entire countries, even continents. The fact is, mankind prospers according to the measure of its generosity, and dies when this becomes lost. Therefore, one can recognize that historical boundaries, are fundamentally spiritual boundaries.
Generosity, obviously, became a lost cause in the shadow of the revival of the British imperial era after World War II. Perhaps Richard Strauss had sensed that this revival had brought to an end the beautiful world that he had cherished. Still, the loss that occurred didn't begin there. The victory of the looters of humanity resulted, as it always does, from a clash of ideas, of cultural paradigms, and a people being untrue to their innermost nature. The course of human history, therefore, is largely defined by the course of this inner warfare. This inner (cultural) warfare is fierce and always goes on in the background long before the engines of war are ever cast into steel. This warfare is the mother of all warfare. Understanding history requires an understanding of the nature of the counteracting ideas, or more specifically, mankind's response to them. At times the thrusts of power by empires are so great and so intimidating that they meet little or no resistance. A nation's surrender, however, does not make the outcome benign.
The British opium wars against China, for instance, where such events that cannot rightfully be called wars in the standard sense. The event should be called an invitation, an act of rape committed against a helpless people. China's military forces had been woefully inadequate to impede the invaders. The Opium Wars were orgies of plundering, destroying, forcing a vast nation into submission, manipulating it into betraying itself. The victims of these orgies were counted in the tens of millions, and the outcome was the near loss of one of the oldest civilization on the planet.
Here, one finds the total opposite of generosity. The imperial gift to humanity was a shower of bullets. One finds an antihuman force deployed here, a contempt of humanity, that has not been conquered to the present day. One can find it reflected today in depopulation ideologies, in destructive environmental ideologies, or in economic ideologies that bring the house down over humanity for the creation of opulent monuments to the multifaceted 'royal' contempt of humanity.
Some say that cruelty is a part of human nature, because cruelty is found throughout history. To say this is like saying that the tendency of a student to fail in school exams is imbedded in the nature of the student. Whoever suggests this, lies. The reality is, that the greatest achievements in scholarship reflect the native capability inherent in the nature of man which the individual student brings out through dedication to the chosen goal, and through consecrated effort towards achieving this goal. Failures reflect a lack of effort in these fields, or a lack of wisdom in the choice of the goals. The fact is, the potential for excellence is native to everyone.
Cruelty, therefore, must be regarded as akin to stupidity which is largely accepted by choice. Some people simply can't be bothered with developing their native potential. As a consequence they cheat and steal from others what they don't want to create for themselves. The worst of the lot of such thieves call themselves Kings and claim royalty whereby they demand humanity to fulfill their opulent desires by various forms of legal theft which they protect with threats of murder and cruelty. All the great empires were built on this basis, like the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, or the British Empire. Mankind's history is filled with a long string of such empires. Mankind's failure has been that it tolerated the parasitism that prevented the fuller realization of its native potential.
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