The Resonance of Reason

by Mr. X

July 14—ITEM: Her Excellency Dr. Naledi Pandor, speaking on Saturday, July 12, to the Berlin Conference of the Schiller Institute, “Man Is Not a Wolf to Man: For a New Paradigm in International Relations!” remarked that the current international discourse, dominated by wars, and rumors of wars, including trade war, “does not refer at all to development … it is totally at odds with the SDGs (UN Sustainable Development Goals), with Africa’s Agenda 2063, and with the Oasis Plan (of the Schiller Institute.) It is vital for delegates at this conference, to find ways of reaching out to world leaders, leaders that are part of the G7, that are part of BRICS, that are part of the G20, and in one voice, we should gather sufficient momentum to persuade these leaders, that more growth, more development, and more security would be achieved if these plans became the core of global action…. The negative and toxic geopolitical environment, in which military power and economic bullying are dominant, will never contribute to building a better world.”

With the convulsed situations of Iran, Ukraine, and Gaza as only the most notable of the 59 conflicts—the largest number since World War II—now going on around the world; with “wars, and rumors of wars” comprising the lethal fare of the “daily news cycle,” fed to young and old; with dystopian Silicon Valley “doges” plotting the “trans-humanization” of (a much less numerous) humanity through what one might call “cyber-eugenics,” slightly more antiseptic, but as, or more extreme, than the experiments of Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, the question must be asked: Has the trans-Atlantic sector lost the moral fitness to survive? Have the dogs of a thermonuclear world war already been irretrievably unloosed on humanity, through the infinite wisdom of the British imperial intelligence services’ recent manipulations of the American Presidency?

The participants and presenters at the Berlin Conference emphatically declared that it need not be so—not if free citizens of the world, as an international force, “take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.” But what sort of arms? With what weapons can the War Party be defeated? What are the weapons by means of which peace through development can be achieved?

The great educator Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) faced earlier with a collapsing Europe, said, in his “On the Civility of Children’s Conduct”: “Let others paint on their escutcheons lions, eagles, bulls, leopards. The possessors of true nobility are those who can use on their coat of arms, Ideas, which they have thoroughly learned….” Erasmus argued, and the Schiller Institute Berlin Conference emphatically endorsed the idea, that “Man Is Not a Wolf to Man.” Though that phrase is often attributed to that British precursor of fascism, Thomas Hobbes, it was well known earlier, at least as early as the Roman playwright Plautus (254-184 B.C.), that the comment of Erasmus about its real meaning is: “Here we are warned not to trust ourselves to an unknown person, but to beware of him as of a wolf. A man is a wolf and not a man, to the one who knows nothing of his character.” The opposite is to know, respect and love the best and the greatest in each society, such that, as one humanity, we may rise out of the adolescence of the human race, on display right now in the bellicose, semi-literate pronunciamentos that masquerade as policy statements emanating from the bowels of NATO.

In the course of a particularly hectic, dangerous, but intellectually fertile year, Lyndon LaRouche, in 1977, when asked to describe the philosophical association that he had formed in 1966, responded, “We are, perhaps, describable as the International Association for the Comprehension and Application of the Relativist Conception of Negentropy, or something like that.” He elaborated, “What are we? We are essentially nothing but an organized process for the development and dissemination of ideas, developed according to a rigorous method. We are not newspaper sellers: a newspaper is a medium for transmission of ideas, which must therefore be sold for that purpose. We are not street orators: rallies are our means for disseminating, and also exchanging ideas, a means for provoking a focused dialogue around ideas. We are not political-intelligence gatherers as such: political intelligence is only an essential way of ensuring that the process of developing and disseminating ideas is focused in a relevant, task-oriented way. We are ideas, or rather the process of creating needed ideas in a coherent way.”

It was that which caused the Anglo-American establishment to slander, contain, prosecute and jail Lyndon LaRouche during the 1980s. As a result, the very policy that LaRouche proposed as early as 1975, and would have, as American President, implemented in conjunction with other nations, but in the name of the United States, is that policy now most closely associated with the BRICS nations today. LaRouche, who largely formulated and refined that policy from his prison cell, in 1989, called it the Eurasian Land-Bridge, and then, a little later, the World Land-Bridge. That is the great idea of our time, which holds the solution to how the United States can re-assume a positive world leadership once again. Apart from not fighting anyone, anywhere—a policy which would be in the true interest of the people of the United States—the World Land-Bridge is the physical economy underpinning of a New International Security and Development Architecture, as proposed by Schiller Institute founder, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her Ten Principles declaration.

In her tribute to the late former United States Attorney General, “Ramsey Clark: A Representative of the American Ideal,” Zepp-LaRouche reported that "In his remarks to the hearings of an Independent Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations held in 1995, Ramsey said (of the LaRouche organization):

“’But in what was a complex and pervasive utilization of law enforcement, prosecution, media, and non-governmental organizations focussed on destroying an enemy, this case must be number one. There are some, where the government itself may have done more, and more wrongfully over a period of time; but the very networking and combination of federal, state, and local agencies, of Executive and even some Legislative and Judicial branches, of major media and minor local media, and of influential lobbyist types, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) preeminently, this case takes the prize.

“‘The purpose can only be seen as destroying—more than a political movement, more than a political figure—it is those two; but it’s a fertile engine of ideas, a common purpose of thinking and studying and analyzing to solve problems, regardless of the impact on the status quo, or on vested interests. It was a deliberate purpose to destroy that at any cost….’”

Zepp-LaRouche also described her and Lyndon LaRouche’s relationship with Ramsey Clark: “While coming originally from a different political background, our discussions would focus on subjects of universal significance, such as constitutional principles, the relationship of individual freedom to the well-being of the state, the fight against repression in specific historical periods, or the importance of personal integrity for the creative ability of individuals. It is the nature of such discussions that they tend to transcend the limits of particular political affiliations, and establish what is common to humanity.”

That well describes the “coincidence of opposites” principle that is the starting point for the caliber of diplomacy and cultural interchange which must take center stage, away from geopolitics.

Now, as Global NATO racks up failure after failure, what must be done is not only to assemble all the good people within “the belly of the beast” of the trans-Atlantic failed states, and to inspire them to take back their governments. More, an intercontinental congress for reason, whether formal or improvised, must quickly come into existence, that becomes, and provides, a more vigorous, younger, energetic and “fertile engine of ideas,” the essential weapons in this struggle to achieve humanity’s adulthood, through a more perfect union, in an international community of principle, not a “rules-based order.”