The heads of UN aid organizations issued a joint statement yesterday warning of the devastation being wrought on children in Yemen by the famine conditions in the country. About 400,000 children under the age of five are in danger of dying of acute malnutrition in war-torn and impoverished Yemen, they warned, reported {Al Monitor}. They said half of those in the most vulnerable age bracket, or 2.3 million small children, are projected to suffer from severe malnutrition this year. “These numbers are yet another cry for help from Yemen where each malnourished child also means a family struggling to survive,” World Food Programm chief David Beasley said in a joint statement.
“More children will die with every day that passes without action”, said Henrietta Fore, head of the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF. “Humanitarian organizations need urgent predictable resources and unhindered access to communities on the ground to be able to save lives.”
The UN agencies also warned that about 1.2 million pregnant or breastfeeding women are also expected to suffer from extreme malnutrition in 2021. “The crisis in Yemen is a toxic mix of conflict, economic collapse and a severe shortage of funding to provide the life-saving help that’s desperately needed,” said Beasley. “But there is a solution to hunger, and that’s food and an end to the violence.”
Seventy five years after the end of World War II, the world is threatened with a new fascist dictatorship. It comes, this time, in the form of an attempt by the City of London, Wall Street, and various leading central banks to consolidate total control over all financial investments for the benefit of the super-rich at the expense of the middle-classes and the poor worldwide. The “ecological transition” they peddle signifies a destructive financial takeover of economies, with the “green” color being but the banner of their purpose to loot.
They call it the “Great Reset.” Under the pretext of rebuilding the world economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, the top private bankers and billionaires intend to implement a “regime change,” whereby monetary and fiscal policy is no longer to be decided by elected governments, but by the private central banks and leading financial players directly. In this final phase of the decades-long neo-Malthusian policy in favor of speculators, they would consolidate ultimate control over all investments and channel them entirely into “green technologies,” thus cutting off all investment in the productive sectors of high-tech energy, industry, agriculture and infrastructure.
If this scheme, promoted by the World Economic Forum with a series of “Great Reset” conferences, succeeds, it will mean the end of the industrialized nations of the so-called advanced sector, and the death of literally millions, and then billions, of people in the developing countries. There is a direct relationship between the productivity of an economy, including the energy flux density of its productive processes, and the number of human beings that it can sustain. If the entire world economy is “decarbonized,” in what Schellnhuber and his associates already years ago called the “Great Transformation of the World Economy,” including the exit from nuclear energy and research, then the number of people who can be sustained will scarcely be more than one billion. What about the other seven billion? This approach, if not reversed, can only lead to chaos and a new world war.
An integral part of the “Great Reset” is the plan to introduce cryptocurrencies and the digitalization of currencies. This shift would allow the total surveillance of all personal data in any field of economic activity, completing what is already ongoing with the surveillance by the NSA and GCHQ.
If society continues to operate for the benefit of a privileged financial elite, this digitalization of currencies will be used to devalue the accumulated unpayable debt through write-downs and inflation, such as happened in Germany in 1923. The people and the productive economy itself will be looted. The digitalization of currencies can only find useful applications if society is oriented toward the benefit of the common good.
The present effort to establish total control over monetary and fiscal policy, by giving control to the central banks in the framework of the “Great Reset” and imposing a Green New Deal, is based on the same fascist principles as the policy of Hitler’s President of the Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, and must be absolutely rejected.
We demand:
- A global Glass-Steagall banking separation, to end all support for the speculative, investment bank sector and the shutting down of the shadow economy;
- The re-establishment of sovereignty over national currencies;
- The creation of a national bank in every country, and the return of credit creation to sovereign governments;
- The creation of a new credit system in the tradition of the original intention of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Bretton Woods System and of the Non Aligned Countries in the 1976 Colombo Conference. The primary aim is to increase the living standards of every human being on the planet as the precondition for peace, and to overcome all current challenges, such as the pandemic, world famine and poverty.
- A massive increase in productivity by moving to new economic platforms based on the commercial use of thermonuclear fusion power and international cooperation in space research and travel.
The fundamental opposition determining our future and that of the generations to come is between a mass surveillance society under the rule of green fascist finance, and a world of detente, entente and cooperation among all peoples and nations, in the way all humanists have posed the challenge and continue to demand today. We are committed to fighting for it.
This text is being circulated internationally, and people are called upon to sign it. In 1945, all those who had just lived through fascism and world war said clearly: “Never again!” We are now at the hour of decision: Have we learned anything from history, or are we more immoral than our forefathers?
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As the battle to overturn the election fraud, designed to make war hawk Joe Biden president, heads into the third week, the role of the City of London again comes into the picture. In her summary presented in her weekly dialogue of the fight to reverse the fraud, Helga Zepp LaRouche exposes Lord Malloch-Brown, the chairman of the voting machine firm Smartmatic, as a key British operative, with ties to regime change fanatic George Soros, who has been a leading backer in the dirty campaign against Trump. Smartmatic has been identified by Trump attorney Sidney Powell as a target of her investigation into how the fraud was run against President Trump, and has been rejected by several nations due to how easily it can be programmed to rig elections.
She praised the work of Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe, NSA whistleblowers, as “absolute heroes” in their long-standing defense of personal freedom against the surveillance state, and the sanctity of fair, legal elections, and endorsed the call for Trump to offer pardons and safe travel to the U.S. to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, to help in cleaning out the surveillance state and its Big Tech enablers.
She also dissects the City of London role behind the move to establish a global fascist banker’s dictatorship, to give bankers control over government spending policy, and how those bankers intend to use this power to enact a deadly Green New Deal internationally. She urged viewers to register for the Dec. 12-3 Schiller Institute online conference, which will present the outline for what is needed to pull the world back from a geopolitical, neo-liberal drive for war and depression, and establish a new paradigm of peaceful cooperation among sovereign nation states.
The United Nations on Nov. 17 announced that it will provide $100 million in emergency aid for food and related relief to six countries. It will come out of the UN Central Emergency Response Fund. The largest amount, $30 million, will go to Yemen. The remaining funds will cover food aid to parts of Nigeria, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and Afghanistan.
World Food Program Director David Beasley and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Director Mark Lowcock, who made the announcement, also wrote a joint opinion column Nov. 17 that was published by The Times of London, titled, “We’ve Averted Famine in the Past — We Must Do It Again.” They began, “Humankind’s greatest success was to consign famine to history,” but now it is back, and this is “heart wrenching and obscene.” They said, “The world has been understandably preoccupied with COVID-19, but this must not distract us from the bigger killer.” They called for action. “Do nothing and it will be the catalyst for the grand reversal — the avoidable unravelling of decades of progress.”
Their op-ed states: “The UN’s COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan requires $10 billion. A drop in the ocean compared to the $12 trillion stimulus packages of wealthy nations or the $8 trillion collective net worth of the world’s 2,000 billionaires.”
On Yemen in particular, they point out, “Countries in the region and beyond should collaborate to finance the Yemen relief effort, stabilize the shattered economy, support longer-term development and bring pressure to bear on the warring parties to silence the guns and make peace.” Beasley and Lowcock conclude, “Famines are a stain on humanity. Now is the time to act.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche was interviewed on Nov. 18th, for the China Radio International podcast, “The World Today.” The moderator asked about comments made by Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee at a Bloomberg event, where he said that the Biden Administration should make efforts to improve the U.S.-China relations.
Listen here (Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche starts at minute 25:08.)
Q: How do you understand Lee’s remarks here?
HZL: It’s quite understandable that Prime Minister Lee would express such a wish and recommendation, because obviously the situation in Singapore will be greatly affected by whatever the U.S.-China relationship will turn out to be.
But contrary to the impression which is created by the mainstream media, the outcome of this election is not yet decided. Yesterday, for example, Roger Stone, who is the former campaign manager of President Trump, in an interview with Newsmax TV, said that there is a widespread psychological warfare operation to make it appear as if Biden is inevitably the next President, that there are even people from the Trump Administration like National Security Adviser O’Brien, who talks about a “professional transition,” and that everything is settled. But the head of the legal team of President Trump, Sidney Powell, who is a very, very excellent lawyer, she said that the fight is by no means over, that she has evidence of vote fraud which will blow up the whole election, and that there is absolutely damning information on the Smartmatic and Dominion electronic election systems being used; and that she has affidavits of top people from the military and others that these systems were designed to change the votes, not by the thousands, but by the millions, and that this whole thing will blow up. So I would not necessarily assume that Biden will be the next President. Because if these legal cases all proceed—and also the population is rallying very much around Trump, the next President may be Trump, and not Biden.
Q: Singapore’s prime minister said, while U.S.-China tensions exist, they try their best, their very best, to do business with both sides during the past four years. Actually, we see many countries and U.S. companies express unwillingness to play the Cold War game under the Trump Administration. Do you think there will be a change in U.S.-China relations under no matter, President-elect Biden, or a next term of a Trump Administration?
HZL: Well, I’m afraid that even if I understand that the Chinese people are very bitter about how the relationship between President Xi and President Trump has evolved from a very promising beginning, that under Biden, I’m afraid it would be much worse. First of all, Biden has been painted in the media as being (quote) “soft on China.” And the aim of that was to manipulate him to prove that he’s not soft on China, like it was done in Russiagate in respect to Trump, that he was not too close to Russia.
Now I think that the trans-Atlantic establishment is so manic that with Biden everything will go back to “normal.” But we should remember that this so-called “normal” was the reason why Trump won the election in the first place. The population was completely tired of the financial policies of Wall Street, which only favored the speculators and not the common good; and the population was tired of the endless wars which Trump had promised to end and bring the troops back home, which he now reiterated that before Christmas he wants to bring back the troops from Afghanistan and more troops from Syria. So I’m afraid that Biden would not be a “third Obama Administration,” as some people say, but it would be much worse. If you look at the record of Biden who was for 50 years in Washington politics, after all, he was in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and in many points he was much more hawkish than the Obama Administration. And if you look at his team, there are people like Michèle Flournoy, who is mooted to become the next Defense Secretary if there would be a Biden Administration; she has been the architect of every war the United States was involved in in the past 20 years. And Hillary for the UN, she lied to the UN Security Council before the Libya operation which then led to the murder of Qaddafi. So I don’t think that team forebodes anything good. And I think Biden would be the worst option for U.S.-China relations.
Q: How much damage have the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China brought to the smaller countries like Singapore? What are their expectations for the next four years from the White House?
HZL: Well, I think that was one of the compelling reasons that the Asian countries all signed the RCEP, the regional cooperation agreement, despite the recent tour of Pompeo. Pompeo went to Asia to put maximum pressure on all the Asian countries not to work with China, and only a few weeks later they signed the RCEP, which I think reflects the fact that people recognize that it is in their fundamental interest to cooperate with China.
Q: On the subject of the RCEP, what do you make of the signing of RCEP, recently? And Lee claimed that the countries in the region believe in a model of cooperation and willing trade regardless of what happens in the broader world. What do you make of his remarks here?
HZL: That’s for sure true. It is very clear that if you look at the mass media, who have in the recent period been portraying China as having all these evil intentions, the reality is that while the Western countries still are looking for the worst to come concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, because they could not do the measures which China and also other Asian countries effectively were able to implement, it is very clear that China is now the only country with a significant growth rate for this year. So China is the locomotive for the world economy, and therefore it is very clearly in the interest, especially of Chinese neighbors, to profit from that locomotive effect with respect to their own economies. And I think, if you have the choice of being an aircraft carrier for the United States in the region, or have economic benefit in cooperating with China, I think their choice was made clearly, and that is true despite the still-existing tensions with Australia.
Q: Thanks for taking your time with us, Helga. … That’s Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, a Germany-based political and economic think tank.
We should not overstate the case — the outcome of the Putin-Biden summit did not resolve most of the outstanding issues, which the War Hawks in the Military Industrial Complex have been inventing and hyping, to bring the two countries to the brink of war. However, the joint statement they issued included an extremely important agreement: “Today, we reaffirm the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” See if you can find this reported in the English-language mainstream media, which instead demeaned the summit, and tried to provoke confrontation between the two leaders, exactly as they tried following the July 2018 summit between Putin and President Trump in Helsinki.
When Beethoven Becomes Hilarious!
Notes by Fred Haight
We have had several episodes on Beethoven’s sense of humor. Today, we cross over into utter hilarity. Beethoven composed folk songs in many languages, including English, Italian, Danish, and Russian.
- The first piece today is not a folk song but a setting of Goethe’s The Flea from his Faust. Its part of 6 songs that he composed in 1809, op. 75, no. 3. It’s in German. Here, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau performs the song, with English subtitles.
2. One commenter reminded us of the song Ih nit di Nehma, from 23 Songs of Different Nationalities, WoO158a (1816/17). If you are wondering what language it is, it appears to be a Tyrolean dialect. Tyrol/Trentino straddles Austria and Italy. It is mountainous and apparently has a lot of regional dialects. We print here the closest thing we could find to a translation. Two things are clear a). There is a lot of yodeling. b). A woman is rejecting a man, and by the sound of her voice, he should not be too disappointed.
I nit di nehma
I like di nit nehma,
You top pike,
You can’t come to me
You were much too bad for me;
And you wanna be my man
You urban aff,
What do you think of no
You foolish laff
You talked yodel,
What you need a woman
You have a soda Koan juice more in body;
You’re cute like a brue
And cute as a bird
what did a woman do to you.
The gannet from Passau
Is your contrase
You kier like a Spanau,
Now go and go
Stop your grumbling
I’m telling you
I give you a faunzen
You talketer bue.
Glossary
Talketer Jodel = foolish journeyman
You have = anyway
Contrase = image
You kier = you squeak
Faunzen = slap in the face
3. L’amante Impazione (the Impatient Lover) Op 82, No. 3 and 4 (composed 1809), are in Italian. The lover seems a bit infantile. Beethoven captures this manic-depressive quality by setting it twice, once in a manic way, and once in a depressive way, using exactly the same words. Both are played here. Click on two separate videos to hear the two versions!
Che fa, che fa il mio bene?
Perché non viene?
Vedermi vuole languir
Così, così, così!
Oh come è lento nel corso il sole!
Ogni momento mi sembra un dì,
Che fa, che fa il mio bene?
Perchè, perché non viene?
Vedermi vuole languir
Così, così, così!
What is my darling doing?
Perhaps she will not come?
She likes to see me pine away
Like this, like this, like this
How slowly the sun runs its course,
Every second’s like a day.
What is my darling doing?
Perhaps she will not come ……. ?
She likes to see me pine away
Like this, like this, like this.
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Seven African nations have come together to form the Conference of Speakers and Heads of African Parliaments (CoSAP), calling for a complete cancellation of debts on the continent, as a prelude to creating a New Paradigm of global development. Spearheaded by the Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speakers of the respective nations’ legislatures of Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, Rwanda and South Africa have vowed to lead “accountability” efforts in their respective nations in an effort to first clean up their own houses in advance of any action by creditors.
In statement released after their initial meeting, on Aug. 17, Gbajabiamila told his fellow MPs: “We all agree that Africa’s debt burden has become an existential threat to our societies, our economies and the future we leave to posterity, and we need to do something about this and treat it as a continent-wide priority. It is safe to say that the burden of debt servicing, vis-à-vis spending on education and health care for example, is a threat to our continent’s stability and development, especially in the era of Covid-19.
“When we find ourselves having to make policy choices between paying debts or saving lives, we know something is not morally right. And as democratically elected representatives of our people, we cannot be silent. We must speak up and we must act. And the time to act is now.”
Interviewed about the initiative by CGTN on Thursday, Nov. 12, Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament Aaron Oquaye said that “we need a new world economic order,” describing the impossibility of domestic development (specifically food production) under the free trade dogma. “No country ever, in this world, got economic independence by allowing [unrestrained free trade] competition,” Oquaye said. “There is always a need for self-protection and this is the process in which we want debts relieved, so that we can also start all of our [economies] in that process.”
Oquaye then put the efforts in the larger historical context: “It’s a matter of liberating us,” he said, “giving us a free and clean—a new slate, so that we can write our own story thereon…. We need a new paradigm, a new paradigm which cannot take place under a new depressed world arrangement economically. So, we believe that, if you talk about debt cancellation, then you are only cancelling one, so as to start another. But if you forgive, then the slate is clean for us to write a new story. This is the essence of the concept.” (Emphasis in original.)
According to the Aug. 17 statement, the group held a planning conference in September, and is planning a conference sometime in 2021.
The LaRouche International Youth Movement issued the following statement on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Feb. 12, 2019 death of Lyndon H. LaRouche.
We, youth from around the world and members of the international Schiller Institute, have posed the question as to whether we’re really doing the right thing in terms of the academic and moral education of so many of the planet’s youth. In replying, we discover the paradox that if we were doing the right thing, the grave international systemic crisis we face wouldn’t exist.
What we instill in the minds and hearts of our youth through their education, will give them the tools to decide what they will do with their lives, taking up the mission of a “commitment to society” to improve our universe. With the method Lyndon LaRouche’s ideas represent, the word “commitment” won’t frighten them. They will see in it the realization of their ideals, as they better themselves and consequently seek the improvement and benefit of their fellow man.
With this in mind, we have launched an initiative called “LaRouche in the universities. What really is power?” This initiative consists of training young students, professors and other interested parties in the method and contributions of the American physical economist Lyndon LaRouche. We must introduce in all curricula the history of those ideas which, in the course of the evolution of human civilization, have allowed us to emerge from existential crises with renewed vigor to create a renaissance at a higher level. And that’s what the ideas on statecraft and the agapic principle that LaRouche contributed during his lifetime represent. So today, when these ideas are more necessary than ever, we launch this project on the second anniversary of his passing, February 12.
This is our petition:
That we begin education and training in the method developed by Lyndon LaRouche, through courses, workshops, seminars, graduate courses, conferences, contests, experiments, science and art fairs—to take place in academies, universities, forums, courses and classes. We ask that you open your minds, have a meeting and discuss how to collaborate to activate the creative capacity and the “specific faculty of cognitive insight” in the individual; to create with this a dynamic of Socratic dialogue in response to the search for solutions to the paradoxes posed by the current crisis.
We aren’t demanding. We are offering the opportunity to give young people what belongs to them by natural law. That is, to create an inflection point in history—an option that differs from the pessimism they breathe.
It’s true. What young people decide to do with their education isn’t in our hands; but at least we will feel at peace knowing that we’ve done the right thing—having guided these youth in the direction of the Good and not toward their self-destruction.
This is true love for one’s fellow man—it is true agapē. Our petition isn’t born of being fed up with society, of anger, hate or victimization. Rather, it is born of the hope of building, through our own efforts, a dignified present for the human race and for all inhabitants of our planet. These are the ideas which Lyndon LaRouche defended in life, and we young people have assumed the responsibility of bringing them to fruition with even greater force today.
The consequences of changing the present will be a future of prosperity, but one filled with paradoxes to be resolved for our future generations—an opportunity to seek one’s happiness through being useful to others, rather than just thinking of oneself.
Former Mexican President José López Portillo said in 1998: “It is now necessary for the world to listen to the wise words of Lyndon LaRouche;” and we would add, “it is now necessary that he be studied at every center of learning in the world.”
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What follows are excerpts taken from Lyndon LaRouche’s February 11, 2001 document “A Philosophy for Victory: Can We Change the Universe?” In that document, LaRouche explains the method referred to above.
The most important, and most fundamental of the issues posed to us by this onrushing catastrophe, is: As a matter of principle, to what degree, in what manner, and by what means, can man gain foreknowledge of the method by which to willfully change the current direction of his society’s destiny, for the better, in specific ways? Even to overcome, thus, the worst sort of impending, seemingly inevitable catastrophe, such as the presently onrushing one?
For reasons which I have defined extensively within earlier writings, any discussion of this topic, must situate itself by efficiently implied reference to the accumulation of knowledge possessed by mankind, and, more narrowly, by any specific culture, up to the time of a current discussion. In other words, the investigation of matters pertaining to the question of method set forth at the outset of this report, must adopt its empirical basis from the history of the efficient effects of the previous development of ideas, as Plato defined the term ideas, and as Leibniz defined the Platonic idea of a monadology.
Such is the setting, in which a specific culture, at a specific time, is faced with a specific challenge to its continued existence. That challenge must be seen as that culture is situated not merely within the context of the world’s geography, but also the legacy of that society’s cultural development, accumulated from all human history, up to that time. This retrospective view defines the broad meaning of historical specificity…
When we use the term “idea,” as Plato, Kepler, or Leibniz would, we mean, either the quality of idea associated with a universal physical principle, such as Kepler’s original discovery of a principle of universal gravitation, as Kepler details this, step by step, in his The New Astronomy, or the idea of communication of such an idea to another individual person. Or, we mean the notion of an idea common to both such discoveries of a validated universal physical principle of non-living processes, or of living processes, and also the idea of the communication of ideas of that specifically cognitive quality, as ideas are defined by Plato, from one person to another.
This is the same principle expressed in any performance of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion, which is conducted as Bach had intended the organic participation among composer, soloists, chorus, and congregation. The intention is that all, composer, soloists, chorus, and congregation, might participate in reliving that passion within their own cognitive experiences. Mozart’s Great Mass, his later Requiem, and Beethoven’s masses,
These are not fiction, not entertainments, but the adducing of the cognitive reality of history, as distinct from a reductionist’s dumb reading of the shadows on the wall of a dimly firelit cave, or, as seen darkly in a mere sensory mirror of reality. The superior truthfulness of great Classical art, on this account, is that it accomplishes the essential function of enabling the audiences, among others, to relive the cognitive experience of the historical subject to which the art, or an appropriate form of religious service, refers…
These latter are communicated to other persons, that in the form of specifically cognitive qualities of knowledge… The validation is defined, as to be measured in terms of society’s increase of its power to exist, in and over the universe, in physical terms. Typically, this validation is to be measured per capita and per square kilometer of a normalized cross-sectional area of the Earth’s surface.
In that modern case, we can say that we know the subject author’s intent, because he obliges us, in that way, through that specific faculty of cognitive insight, to replicate the discovery of the intent of the experimentally verifiable idea in our own cognitive processes. This principle governs the way in which communication of ideas, as Plato defines ideas, occurs among living persons; it is also the way in which ideas are communicated, as ideas, from the past to the present, and to the future.
In opposition to that single step of perception, through which we learn to recognize objects in the form of sense-perceptions (e.g., the empiricist’s brutish notion of “sense certainty”), the individual act of knowing an idea requires three steps.
First: there must be the recognition of a true paradox of an ontological form.
Second: there must be an act of hypothetical discovery of some universally efficient principle, a discovery which solves the paradox.
Third: there must be an experimental test of the discovery. In other words, the test must show that the hypothetical principle is either universal, or not. If not, it is not a principle.
Since the first and third steps are both demonstrated experimentally, a second person who repeats those steps recognizes the successful nature of the thought which engendered the hypothetical discovery in the mind of the original discoverer, as recreated in his own. It is in that way, that the imperceptible is known, because the existence of that idea is efficient in controlling the shadows on the wall of Plato’s Cave. This sharing of the act of discovery of an experimentally validated principle, defines an idea of the Platonic type. Ideas of principle generated and validated in this way, thus represent communicable, and also efficient ideas for practice, even though the idea itself is not visible to the mere senses.
Thus, the subject of history, properly apprehended, is the history of ideas, as that is to be defined in the terms which I have just summarized. Thus, the only valid idea of history, is the history of ideas.
In other words, the minds of discoverers from the past are able to communicate with our minds, even if that discoverer were long deceased, through the three-step method outlined above. So, we, too, are empowered to communicate to the minds of persons who will be conceived and born long after we are dead. This relationship, defined in terms of ideas, among past, present, and future, is the equivalence of the idea of history to the history of ideas. It is not through learning rooted in sense-certainty, but only through the cognitive communication of ideas of a Platonic quality, that we are in efficient relationship to humanity as a whole, to our predecessors, our contemporaries, and our posterity alike.
This points to the indispensable role of a Classical-humanist mode of universal primary and secondary education for all members of our society. The primary goal and function of education, must be to enable the young, in particular, to relive the important cognitive experiences of past generations, especially the great discoveries and the great crises of earlier cultures and peoples. It is in the seeking of cognitive truth, in such Classical-humanist modes of education of the young in ideas, that education provides a foundation for the moral development of the character of the young person, and, hence, also the adult.
The superior moral character of the individual enjoying the benefits of a Classical-humanist education, in contrast to today’s more popular practices, expresses itself not only in the development of persons who are usually more moral, more sane than in other parts of the population, but endowed with superior qualities of intellectual achievement in whatever profession takes them up. Thus, the idea of an historically so-defined generality of cognitive development, points to an induced state of mind described as the expression of a principle of higher hypothesis, expressed, typically, as the individual’s power to generate entire families of discoveries.
It is in the ability to share that cognitive discovery of universal principle with others, in a task-oriented way, that real knowledge of the physical universe becomes a subject of conscious intention. It is in the distinguishing of one such idea, from others, of the same cognitive origin, that we are able to distinguish one idea from another one, as a form of existence of ideas, as situated within a social process.
This social aspect of the process of accumulating valid ideas, cognitively, over successive generations, defines what is properly regarded as Classical principles of artistic composition and performance. The validatable principles of Classical artistic composition, also provide the basis for the apprehension of real history and the arts of statecraft.
The functional distinction of the sovereign form of modern nation-state republic, is that it ends the subjugation of the majority of the population to the status of virtual human cattle. It is the shaping of economic and related policies according to that intention, which imposes upon government the responsibilities for: a.) protecting the national economic development, as measured in per-capita and per square-kilometer terms; b.) the promotion of the development of the basic economic infrastructure of the national territory as a whole; and, c.) the promotion of scientific progress and use of the technologies so derived, to promote the advancement of the productive powers of labor of all of the households of which the population is composed.
It is the florescence of Classical education and practice in science and art, which nourishes what becomes both the productive potential of the population, and its inclination to cooperate in bringing related improvements in the material and cultural conditions of life into general practice. The human individual is naturally creative; that distinguishes him, or her, from the beasts. That is the quality of that individual, which, if evoked and encouraged, is the source of upward tracks of revolutionary improvements in the condition of mankind. That, which Plato and the Apostle Paul would identify as the principle of agapē, is the power of mankind to change the universe.
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