Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in April 19 discussion of coming May 8 Schiller Institute conference.
I think we have to tune the entire international organization, like a laser, to effect the paradigm shift. Because, as I’ve said many times before, you cannot see all of these different crises as separated topics – if it be the war danger building up rapidly between NATO and Russia, and the U.S. and China, for that matter; or the intolerable situation concerning starvation in many countries of the world – the solution in each case is the same. There needs to be an international cooperation for a new Bretton Woods; for doubling the food production; for a modern health system in every country; for a Classical renaissance.
And I think that – since more and people are waking up to the fact that the world is in trouble – we have to use the May 8 Conference, in one sense to continue with the conference that we had in March, with the same issues the same organizations; but to add to it, and go for an absolutely ambitious outreach to try to get more people to understand on the level of the coincidence of opposites.
Only if people “jump over their shadow", as you say in Germany; if people look beyond the rim of their plate in front of them; only if people start to understand that you need to have a dynamic process of change which addresses the problem of the entire human population; can you get people away from their vested positions and divisions. In a certain sense, the British Empire always said, “Divide and conquer” no matter if it is among nations, or among “identity groups"—now with identity politics you divide people into ever smaller groups and it is pitting them against each other.
And you have to intervene in this situation knowing that everything will get much worse; that you will have an escalation of the war danger until it is replaced by a cooperation, especially between the United States and Russia and the United States and China, and until you have the idea that human life is sacred and therefore you can’t have people starving to death, and you can’t have people dying of sickness when it’s avoidable.
I think we have to approach this from the standpoint it was discussed in the very successful Saturday, April 19 Manhattan town meeting. The real war is against indifference.
Why would normal human beings not have an impulse to want to change these absolutely unbelievable injustices around the world? Only if they have been numbed; if their soul has been shrunk to a dot, where compassion has been extincted. And remember that Bertrand Russell had this book which was called, Why I Am Not a Christian, where he discusses that Christians are the weakest people because they are compassionate, and that means they are weaklings. And this is in stark contrast to [Gotthold] Lessing, who said that the opposite is true: The best people are those who have the most compassion, because they are able to deal with any problem.
It is this question of agape, without which nothing will work. And right now, I think the overriding subject of this conference on May 8, is that we have to evoke agape in people so that they don’t want to accept these incredible situations.
And I think we are making major breakthroughs! I think that if you look at various reactions and statements, I think they are resonating with our influence! And let me give you a couple of examples.
