The Polyphony of Reason and Victory
by Mr. X
Sept. 18—We must seek to, using all possible means at our disposal, to build a new emerging leadership of Western Europe and the United States, fit to collaborate with the aspiring greatness of the increasingly confident Global Majority. The barbarity evident in not only the concept of war, but also the concept of man advocated by the War Party since the advent of atomic war in 1945, and personified in Winston Churchill’s “Operation Unthinkable,” has infected large sections of the trans-Atlantic population—though that disease is not yet terminal. There is resistance, but it is weak. The population must develop the intellectual strength and stamina to devise, propose, advocate, and successfully defend, not only solution concepts such as the LaRouche Oasis Plan, but their advocates as well.
On Sept. 15, the Schiller Institute took its campaign for the Oasis Plan to the United Nations, in collaboration with several other organizations. The focus was to inspire the more than 193 nations of the world represented there to enact Resolution 377A, “Uniting For Peace,” and to, as early as Sept. 18, join together as one, to declare that the genocide now widely acknowledged to be in process in Gaza be immediately halted. There are several actions that Resolution 377 authorizes the United Nations to take, including sanctions, a military embargo, etc., but what is truly important is that the world calls not Israel, but itself to account, to stop this ongoing crime against humanity.
Even the former chairman of the Munich Security Conference Christoph Heusgen, who is no “peacenik,” has vigorously demanded that Germany must abide by the code of justice asserted as international law at the end of World War II, and comply with the judgments of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice regarding the Butcher of Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu. “The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has determined that there is a risk of genocide in Gaza. Israel has not implemented the ICJ’s requirements, such as effective measures to deliver humanitarian aid. On the contrary, people are starving. There is therefore a real danger that Germany, if it supplies weapons that are used in Gaza, will be convicted of aiding and abetting genocide. That would be devastating.”
Why is the world paralyzed in the face of genocide? We must look at the popular culture of the trans-Atlantic world. Look particularly at the music people listen to. Look at what is called the “gaming culture.” Then, read (as much as you can stomach) the writings of T.W. Adorno on The Philosophy of Modern Music or Sociology and Philosophy. On Sept. 14, in its Memorial Concert for 9/11, the Schiller Institute Chorus performed the little-known Requiem of Luigi Cherubini, in preparation for the tasks to be undertaken at the United Nations in the next weeks.
Classical culture must accompany any concept of victory for the good that we intend to implement in the world today. In Classical music, the idea of polyphony, the unity of many different instrumentalists and singers, assembled into various distinct voice-groups, all at the service of a single idea, the musical composition, is the embodiment of how a true republic should run. The purpose, the mission of the ensemble, is to move the mind of the listeners, and of the musical ensemble itself, to produce a unity of effect in the mind of the audience, such that all, musicians and listeners alike, leave the performance individuals better than when they entered it. This must also become the form of our political practice.
The Schiller Institute, and its collaborators in the International Peace Coalition, refused to be deterred by the chilling effect that had caused others to cancel events in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. That is not to make light of the security situation that, in fact, now shadows politics in the United States—including at the White House. Since, however, the genocide is ongoing, and the United Nations must act, the International Peace Coalition rallied nonetheless.
The rally began with invocations offered by Fr. Harry Bury, a Catholic priest for 70 years, and a peace activist since the days of the Vietnam War; Rabbi Dovid Feldman, spokesman for Neturei Karta International; and Rafed Aljoboury, Chairman of Integrity Political Action Committee, and chief organizer of the rally, along with Josephine Guilbeau, a 17-year U.S. Army veteran, Associate Director of Eisenhower Media Network. Speeches were heard from many different organizations, and the rally was also addressed by Bronx U.S. Congressional candidate Jose Vega and former United States Senate candidate in New York Diane Sare. Later, the organizers gathered for a discussion that turned into a Socratic Town Hall symposium, in which Fr. Bury put forward the idea that the Oasis Plan was the same as the very idea of peace itself. “The idea is to bring development to less-developed nations. The idea is to build rather than destroy. What else could the idea of peace mean?” He also said that “something that I learned from Helga Zepp-LaRouche, even at my age, is to question your assumptions.” That approach is the only approach through which the nations of the trans-Atlantic region can regain their moral sanity and their right to stand beside the emerging, forward-thinking new world economic order that is coming into being.