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Lyndon LaRouche Answers to emails On Music My musical interest is centered in three points of intersection.
We have also given much attention to the so-called Negro Spiritual, as Dvorak did, and to the function of Classical composition and methods of performance in the Bach vocal-polyphonic tradition in treating material from the domain of folk-song tradition. Generally, I regard these approaches as the road to fun, to the joy of working with music. Lyndon. On the Question of Race There is only one human race. All share, as a single species, the same potential for expressing those qualities which set all sections of the human population from the apes and other lower forms of life. There is no section of humanity which does not have the same type and relative degree of potential for scientific and Classical cultural development and achievement. No beastly species could actually recognize a universal physical principle, or true principle of practice of Classical artistic culture. Those are facts susceptible of conclusive scientific demonstration. The principle differences in manifest performance of members of the human species are cultural. The cultural distinctions fall into three general, distinct but overlapping classifications.
The chief problem of the U.S. population today, is the post-1945 program of mass-brainwashing conducted by networks such as The Congress for Cultural Freedom. This type of program, modelled upon the existentialist depravity of the so-called Frankfurt-School freaks such as Adorno and Arendt, is the leading edge of what has corrupted the morals and mental powers of the upper-twenty-percentile of income-brackets of the so-called Baby-Boomer (68ers generation. The problem is those criminals who seek to degrade human beings to a brutish state of relative illiteracy, as virtually modern beasts of the field. Lyndon. Protectionism Fair trade wrecked the U.S. economy under the Democrats prior to President Lincoln; protectionism repeatedly rescued the U.S. economy from disaster; fair trade has always, inevitably ruined us. Nothing printable can be honestly said about the effects of fair trade. Like prostitution, it gives satisfaction to the unwitting, but not for long. The modern problems of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, date from the Spanish and Portguese forces, allied with the Habsburg monarchy, which, beginning approximately the earliest Sixteenth Century, created the modern practice of slavery against Africans, a practice taken over by the emerging British Empire of the 1763, on, which has managed Africa savagely, especially since Kitcheners operation of 1898. The problem is, as I think that you know and believe, that the present conditions in Africa are chiefly products of the radiated effects of those original Spanish and later Anglo-Dutch Liberal practices against Africa. My practical problem on this account today, is that Europeans and Americans refuse to understand this history and its present result, and that many Africans, too, prefer to overlook some of the most significant of the ways in which the Anglo-Americans attempt to manipulate Africans own view of continuing causes of the situation today. How do I induce Americans, for example, to understand the terrible realities of sub- Saharan Africa today? For this purpose I have adopted the lesson of the Baltimore syndrome, a once leading city of the U.s., a few decades back, which is largely a hell-hole today. The problems we are able to show in the Baltimore cases patterns of poverty, disease- complexes, and mental regression today, are not a simple copy of Africas problems, but they are American conditions which, if understood by Americans, will open their eyes to the nature,causes, and possible remedies for the perils of Africa today. As we progress in crafting our report on the Baltimore syndrome,you should be able to see how Americans can be brought to understood how Americans should think about the leading systemic problems of Africa today. For example, comparing the way in which HIV spreads in Africa, to similar disease-complex patterns which erupted to popular attention in the USA during the early 1980s and later, is the way in which Americans can be brought to understand the principled nature of the causes underlying the development of dynamic forms of disease-and-poverty complexes in Africa, as sources of insight into a different, but similar complex of problems in Africa. Mobilizing the conscience of the U.S. in this way, is an important part of the possible general solution for the crisis.
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