The Lead
A Higher Idea of Humanity, A Higher Chance of Survival
by Dennis Speed (EIRNS) — Nov. 27, 2024
So far, the lunatics still running the asylum at the State Department, and its spiritual headquarters at London’s Chatham House, have flunked “Reality 101,” and are proceeding with haste to the plains of Armageddon. While Russia has, with its highly effective Nov. 21 deployment of the IRBM “Oreshnik” hypersonic missile, warned NATO against further escalation in the clearest possible way, as former Israeli diplomat and Deputy Prime Minister Abba Eban once said to the late economist and statesman, Lyndon LaRouche, “Never underestimate the factor of insanity in politics.”
In our own thinking, therefore, it is important, particularly in these days fraught with greater dangers than mankind has perhaps ever faced, to go to essentials. A higher species of idea is required in world discussion, a “higher hypothesis,” like that of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776—an idea that transcends the time in which it was written, the place wherein it originated, and the people that wrote it. Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture, taken as a single document, and not “principle by principle,” must become much better known in the next weeks, in order to prompt that elevation in thinking.
The last two weeks’ military-political landscape makes it clear that “cabinet warfare,” “irregular warfare,” “cyber-warfare,” “sanctions warfare,” “psychological warfare,” if pursued any further as the efficient way of conducting relations among nations, will only kill us all, and probably in the short term. The hereditary flaw that is invariant, haunting nearly all versions and variations of contemporary warfare strategy and practice, is also expressed in the morally-bankrupt idea-set known as “geopolitics,” “geoeconomics,” and “geostrategy.” These deadly games all proceed from the assumption that the human race is merely another form of animal. And if we believe that, cannibalism of one or another variety—such as we see in warfare, or predatory economic policies—inevitably follows, because there is no universal human metric by means of which to accurately measure either our individual significance, or the significance of the human species.
The most disputed portion of the “Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture” document authored by Schiller Institute Founder and head Helga Zepp-LaRouche, is its Principle Ten. “The basic assumption for the new paradigm is, that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul, and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.”
That has proven to be both the least discussed, as well as the most controversial and contested statement in the document. Many believe, as has been heard from certain cabinet officials in Israel recently, as well as others, that other members of the human race—the Palestinians, for example—are “animals.” Others, stricken with the “green social disease,” believe that there are too many people presently alive on the planet, that are responsible for “climate change.” Several Green Parties of Europe have been in the forefront of supporting the population-reduction wars in Ukraine and Southwest Asia. And it can be no accident that the primary “political” discussion allowed in the United States during the Presidential election, pushed by the now-discredited and financially failing “legacy media,” was also Malthusian. It was on abortion, and the hideous “transgender” horror-show of child mutilation. This converges with negative population growth rates, minus immigration, not only in the United States, but also throughout every country of the “liberated” Anglosphere. This is a “doomed and dooming” outlook.
The December 7-8 Schiller Institute Conference, “In The Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven, All Men Become Brethren,” will feature as its Panel 4, “The Beauty of the Cultures of the World: A Dialogue Among Civilizations.” In the course of that international dialogue, the panel will also advocate, that without an immersion in what was once slandered as “the music of dead, white European males,” the Classical culture of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Verdi, Dvorak, et al., it will be impossible for the trans-Atlantic world to return to sanity. We must replace the pervasive ugliness with Beauty, or die. Our “death culture,” in other words, is a national security issue. Look at the leaders of each country in the Anglosphere, look at their taste in music, and you can get an idea why, without addressing this problem, it will be impossible to either save or develop our nations any further, and therefore, to stop our self-destruction.
“Classical music” is not a form, although it has forms. Classical music is moving the soul with that which appeals to the divinity in humanity. Divinity is our human nature. It is our capacity to know—to divine—and to discover how to know, in our human way, the laws of the universe. We can also examine our process of knowing, and change and improve that. For example, in the science of physical economy, we attempt to divine, through the discovery and application of scientific principles, how to transform some infinitesimal portion of the universe to generate real wealth, in a universal, and therefore lawful way—not only for ourselves, but also other living, and even non-living processes.
In this way, we come to “hear”—that is, to understand—what scientist Johannes Kepler called the Harmony of the Worlds. It is the capacity of humanity to so divine the universe, and the pleasure that humanity takes in the divine, that makes us both unique, and congruent with that Creator spoken of in the opening passages of the American Declaration of Independence. That Declaration is not a religious document, but a statement of the ontological basis for self-government.
And it implicitly refers to a harmony of interests, including among nations, congruent with the natural order of Kepler’s harmony of the worlds, a conception which was briefly referred to by Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 7 at the Valdai Discussion Club. “It is my deep conviction that the only new international system possible is one embracing polyphony, where many tones and many musical themes are sounded together to form harmony. If you like, we are moving towards a world system that is going to be polyphonic rather than polycentric, one in which all voices are heard and, most importantly, absolutely must be heard. “
The self-destruction of the United States has brought about the uncomfortable, but true, irony that it is in the statements for international peace from China, in the statements against genocide from South Africa, in the statements on ending colonialism from Brazil, and in the statements on defending its national sovereignty from Russia, that the voice of the original American Revolution is heard. That may be shocking and even unwelcome to American ears, but it is true. (Was it through the post-1945 “special relationship” with Great Britain that America not only lost its voice, but also became unable to recognize its own voice, echoed back to it in the aspirations for freedom and justice from other nations, other cultures?)
We invite you to join us in our discussion of this essential cultural element of a successful world strategy for durable survival and prosperity, including successful negotiations to abolish total war, at the Schiller Institute conference, “In The Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven, All Men Become Brethren” and its Panel 4, “The Beauty of the Cultures of the World: A Dialogue Among Civilizations,” December 7-8.
Contents
Strategic War Danger
- NATO Doesn’t Get the Message Sent by Russia’s Oreshnik Missile (↓)
- Trump Security Advisor Says Trump Focused on Resolving Ukraine Conflict (↓)
- Hersh Says Biden Driven To Escalate against Russia, Resenting Election Loss (↓)
- NATO’s CCD Campaigns To Shut Down Russian Orthodox Churches in Europe (↓)
- President Xi Jinping: China Will Work Internationally To End the War, Stop Killing in Occupied Palestine (↓)
- Zakharova Tells Collective West: Moscow’s Signals Are Crystal Clear (↓)
Green New Deal / Great Reset
Collapsing Imperial System
U.S. and Canada
- Trump Threatened Canada and Mexico To Impose a 25% Trade Tariff on All Products Entering U.S. as of Jan. 20 (↓)
- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Overchuk: Russia Plans To Gear Up Afghanistan’s Development (↓)
Science and Technology
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