This Week You Need To Know
Four Decades of Folly:
MY REVOLUTION & ITS REVOLTING FOES
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
May 22, 2004
1. Just over fifty years ago, I, who had been strongly impacted by the leadership of President Franklin Roosevelt, completed the most important, original scientific discovery of recent history in the science of physical economy, what is known today as the "LaRouche-Riemann" transformation in the principles of physical economy: the most successful of the known methods of long-range economic forecasting within four decades or longer.
2. Later, approximately forty years ago, what had been the world's most powerful economy in history, that which had been saved from ruin under the direction of the U.S.A.'s constitutional traditionalist, Franklin Roosevelt, launched a Franklin Roosevelt-hating, continuing, self-inflicted, trans-Atlantic process of cultural degeneration, which has led the world to the brink of an immediately threatened, planetary New Dark Age today.
3. All developments of decisive importance for the world over the course of the coming two to three generations, will now be defined, very soon, as the outcome of the clash between those two axiomatically conflicting forces of cultural developments, mine and theirs, today.
4. The cockpit of this presently terminal form of global crisis, is the upper twenty-percentile of the income-brackets of the so-called "Baby-Boomer" generation, which spewed, as the force of an ultra-decadent, ultra-sophistical counterculture, from the leading universities of the U.S.A., Europe, and elsewhere, during approximately a decade, from 1964 on. This percentile of that generation, chiefly dominates the politically and culturally controlling positions of power and influence in government and private life today, the positions dominated by the upper twenty percentile of those in their fifties or early sixties today. The fault lies not in detailed features of current policies or compositions of government; the fault lies in that intention which subsumes the way in which policy is shaped in its entirety. Without uprooting the intention which is characteristic of the impulses of the relevant dominant portion of the Baby-Boomer generation, there is no hope now for the survival of civilization during a protracted period to come.
5. The self-inflicted character of that impending doom, is expressed by the war-cry of that presently self-doomed, reigning generation (or, shall we say, cultural "de"-generation). That war-cry is, "You can not change our system!" "You can not put the toothpaste back into the tube; the changes our generation has made are now irreversible!" "You must be realistic; you must work within the context of the way things are."
6. The deep, systemic, and potentially fatal conflict so defined, between my revolution and theirs, now pivots on the fact that a world which adheres to the global cultural revolution led by the reigning stratum of "Baby-Boomers," is immediately self-doomed by the effects of the doctrines which it represents. The continuation of their system, a system typified by the knee-jerk cultural reflexes which the reigning stratum of Baby-Boomers represents, would now ensure the virtually immediate plunge of this entire planet into a chain-reaction of disintegration, a worse planetary dark age of humanity, than that which the Venice-dominated ultramontane system brought upon Europe during the mid-Fourteenth-Century New Dark Age.
7. If my Baby-Boomer opponents prevail, none of us will be saved from the monstrous catastrophe presently in the terminal phase of its eruption. This is the manner in which all once-powerful empires and kindred forms of hegemonic cultures have been plunged into the self-inflicted doom of a "new dark age" from earlier phases of human history as a whole.
8. When the proponents of the presently hegemonic cultural currents scream, "You can not change our system!" it is their own, self-inflicted doom which they have pronounced, Thus, in the U.S.A., for example, the U.S.A. was incapable of nominating competent candidates for U.S. President, during 1998-2000, or, so far, today. At their least bad, the prevalent preferences are for candidates who will do no more, as Senator Kerry as done so far, than proposing "touchy-feely" changes in some among the seating arrangements within a sinking Titanic. The leading circles of party and others, alike, lament the fact that Kerry and Bush-Cheney are, at the latter's least worst, frankly bungling incompetents; but, virtually no Baby-Boomer would allow any competent selection to be made instead. For the Democratic Party so far, poor Kerry appears to be the toothpaste which has been squeezed out of the tube, leaving the tube itself a pitiable wreck. Fools warn me that I "do not understand our system." On the contrary, I understand it all to well, as a system, more or less perfectly committed, presently, to its own self-inflicted doom.
9. Many critics of the presently installed leadership of nations will, admittedly, complain that these leaders, such as Bush and Cheney, are failing, that, more or less hopelessly; but, those same critics will not propose any relevant qualities of deep-going change, even at the present virtual brink of doom. The victims of the recent forty years cultural-paradigm-downshift, will blame one another for the calamities which both incumbents and their critics have joined forces to create; and, that criticism is often made, admittedly, with a certain zeal; but they will not venture to change the fatal axiomatic assumptions which they share in common with one another. They join in proclaiming: "You can make reforms; but you can not change our system itself." My opponents say that I am a "Cassandra!" I retort: "Then, if you believe that, you should look at what actually did happen to Troy!" Look at the Trojan Horse you have brought within the walls of your own system.
10. In such a critical situation, only personalities operating intellectually, and by intention, from "outside the present system," would be able to understand the nature of the catastrophe virtually ensured by those who seek to find remedies within the present cultural system. The scientific basis for certainty of that knowledge is typified by the implications of Bernhard Riemann's revolutionary 1854 habilitation dissertation. Only a mind richly developed in successful rejection of the prevalent axiomatic cultural assumptions of earlier failed systems, such as the systems of the Eleatics, sophists, and Aristoteleans, is capable, emotionally, of clear insights into the systemic nature of the doom inhering in the prevalent, habituated, cultural assumptions which virtually the entirety of the "Baby-Boomer" generation has accumulated over the course of the recent four decades. Such is the source of my superior intellectual strength for the task of defining a solution for the presently deepening crisis.
'The Sexual Congress of Cultural Fascism'
11. The most relevant point of historical reference for understanding the present, culturally-determined calamity of global civilization, is a study of the way in which fascism took control over all of continental western and central Europe during the course of 1922-1945, and nearly succeeded, but for President Franklin Roosevelt, in its attempt to take over the U.S.A. as well. This European phenomenon of 1922-1945, this axiomatically systemic moral defect in the cultures of continental western and central Europe, exists still today, in the special form in which it was reenforced, by imposition, on post-war Europe, by the U.S.-based Congress for Cultural Freedom, which embedded its poisonous, existentialist influence in occupied post-war Germany, early on. I define this, for purposes of greater clarity, as "The Sexual Congress of Cultural Fascism," which might be otherwise described as "How Allen Dulles' 'Rat-Line' Also Carried Fascism Back into a Europe Which It, Like Theodor Adorno, Had Never Actually Left."
12. The catastrophe which the Baby-Boomers are now bringing down upon global civilization is to be understood as a modern evolution of a tradition traced, most notably, to the cultural crisis of what we know today as the Classical Greek civilization of the ancient Athens of Solon, Aeschylus, Socrates, and Plato. We had, on the one side, the great tradition of Europe, expressed by such figures as Thales, Pythagoras, Solon, Socrates, and Plato. We had on the opposing side, the sundry varieties of anti-Promethean, philosophically reductionist cults, such as the Phrygian cult of Dionysus, the Delphi Apollo cult, and the Eleatics, sophists, and Aristoteleans. This latter, inherently decadent tradition was characteristic of Roman imperial culture and its roots, and is the central feature of modern European liberalism, in Europe and in the Americas, today.
13. The characteristic feature of this venereal disease of modern liberalism today, is that Venetian tradition of financier-oligarchical tyranny, a tyranny embedded, axiomatically, in the form of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Dutch liberalism. The essential quality of this form of so-called liberalism, which is also the axiomatic root of fascism, is the presumption that most people are destined to be either herded or hunted human cattle, the subjects of the kind of imperial power which the British East India Company came to represented with the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
14. This root of fascism in that Anglo-Dutch system of imperial financier-oligarchical power, was a rival, but also sometime ally, of the medieval system of evil expressed by the Spanish Inquisition under the leadership of the most typical "beast-man" of the Martinist-Synarchist tradition of Joseph de Maistre, the satanic Grand Inquisitor, and forerunner of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism, and of the Dick Cheney faction in the U.S. government, Tomas de Torquemada. What tends to contribute to the confusion of ordinary historians and others on this point, is the failure to recognize that it has been the Venice model of financier oligarchy which reigns over both the formally liberal and fascist expressions of the contemporary financier-oligarchical system. This is typified by the division within 1930s England and Manhattan, between those who placed Adolf Hitler into power, in the first place, and those who, like Winston Churchill, recognized the expedient need of British imperial interests, for Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in preventing the world's succumbing to a global fascist empire, which the Anglo-Dutch Liberal tradition itself had created, then centered in Berlin.
15. The alternative to the pestilence of such financier-oligarchical liberalism, was defined, essentially, by Gottfried Leibniz's leadership. After the 1763 establishment of the British East India Company as a virtual world-empire, the Leibniz legacy of Europe found its leading expression in the North American youth movement developed around Benjamin Franklin's leadership in what became the U.S. constitutional form of Presidential republic, as reflected in the economic-monetary-financial policies of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. The American System so established in North America, freed that nation from the notion of financier-oligarchical rule through money, to the notion of money as a controlled asset deployed for promoting the physical-economic betterment of the well-being of the nation and of all of its people. All the notable corruption in the U.S. has been rooted in the overreaching influence of that intrinsically imperialistic, Europe-based financier oligarchy which is rooted in the liberal tradition of Venice.
16. The doctrine of "free trade," a concoction derived from such sources as the bestiality of Thomas Hobbes, the pro-slavery dogmas of John Locke, the pro-Satanist dogmas of Bernard Mandeville, the feudalistic obscenities of Francois Quesnay, and the perverse plagiarist and hater of American Independence, Adam Smith, expresses the essence of that liberalism from which fascism flows. By imposing the notion of an "invisible hand," as the god of usury which liberalism worships, all other principles of government and law are made the lawful prey of the financier oligarchy. In that state of affairs, the very idea of "truth" is uprooted, more or less effectively, from not only the system of government, but the consciences of the people. This moral decadence which liberalism induces in the people, is the modern echo of ancient sophistry and its outgrowth, Aristoteleanism,
17. However, the modern European tradition of the Fifteenth-Century Renaissance and the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the nobler European tradition of Classical monotheism has been a force of resistance to evil within the population and its institutions of self-government. In the European tradition, Classical culture as typified by Cusa, Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Leibniz, and Bach, has been the chief rallying-point of moral resistance to the both evils of a financier-oligarchy's liberalism and the pro-fascist, feudalist tradition expressed by Grand Inquisitor Torquemada. The pivotal feature of the Classical artistic-scientific tradition on this account, is the notion of a knowable standard of truthfulness, as distinct from, and opposed to a pro-irrationalist notion of arbitrary traditional belief. Fascism, as typified by the argument of Friedrich Nietzsche and kindred existentialists, is a product of the work of creating, as the Nazis did, what is asserted to be a discovered new traditional belief, to be placed above all others.
18. So, during and immediately following World War II, the same set of influential forces associated with Allen Dulles and his James J. Angleton, which had already ushered a core of the Nazi security apparatus into the post-war Anglo-American security system, used the Congress of Cultural Freedom to uproot and obliterate the European Classical tradition, in both the U.S.A. and Europe. The "rock-drug-sex youth-counterculture" and its associated "post-industrial" lunacies of the mid-1960s and later, were products of the use of the shock of post-FDR nuclear terror under President Truman and his associates, to induce a leading layer of the emerging generation of young-adult youth to become part of the counterculture which had been crafted and deployed by the fascist allies of the Congress of Cultural Freedom. This Nietzchean transformation of values was, and is the essential ideological characteristic of the dominant currents within the Baby-Boomer generation.
19. Thus, the fate humanity today hangs, for the immediate future and beyond, on the fate of my role in the present U.S. Presidential election-campaign. That is my destiny, and also yours. It is time, if you are really sane, that you begin now to act accordingly.
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