Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft Winter/Spring 2002 $10.00 ‘We are bound together by qualities of the human mind...’ modern European civilization a quality of impact upon are chiefly derived from that human existence, which only conception of the specific genetic change to a higher nature of the sovereignty species could mimic in the of the human individual animal kingdom. personality. This is the Thus we are bound indispensable, ecumenical together by those qualities of conception of constitutional the human mind, through statecraft, which is only which discovery of universal typified by the combination of physical principles is variously the best which the Fifteenth- generated or regenerated in century Iberian Peninsula, the mind of the individual and heirs of Alfonso Sabio, member of society. We are in particular, inherited from therefore bound together by their combined Moorish, the means through which Jewish, and Christian culture. societies develop those The distinction of the qualities of relations among human species from all lower persons through which forms of life, is that only the cooperation in employing sovereign cognitive (creative) these discoveries may occur. powers of the individual —Lyndon H., LaRouche, Jr. human mind, can discover March 5, 2002 and employ universal physical principles. It is the discovery [SEE “How ‘Democracy’ and transmission of Became Diseased”] such discoveries over successive genera- Astronomical observatory tions, which lifts the at Tophane (Istanbul), he effective citizen of a human species to Turkey, 1580. Trepublic is to be found those higher levels of where great ancient and power in and over modern philosophers, the universe. This such as Plato and Moses benefit occurs, as it Mendelssohn, found him, could occur only in a person conscious of the among human essential immortality of beings, through the the human soul. Indeed, for transmission, reasons I have given at length through replication, in relevant locations, no of such individual competent theology could acts of discovery, exist without Plato’s own from preceding ‘The Construction of development of that generations, to the present the Fatehpur Sikri,’ conception. and future of society. Such India, 1586-7. All the accomplishments of discoveries of principle have “It is through beauty that one proceeds to freedom.” —Friedrich Schiller Vol. XI, No. 1-2 Winter/Spring 2002 SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF William F. Wertz, Jr. 4 EDITOR How ‘Democracy’ Became Diseased Kenneth Kronberg Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. ART DIRECTOR Alan Yue 15 EDITORIAL ASSISTANT How the ‘Lost Corpse’ Subverts Denise Henderson The American Intellectual Tradition BOOKS Stanley Ezrol Katherine Notley Fidelio (ISSN 1059-9126) is published by the Schiller 57 Institute, Inc., P.O. Box 20244, William Shakespeare and Thomas More: Washington, D.C. 20041-0244. www.schillerinstitute.org The Conscience of Kings Editorial services are provided Paul Gallagher by KMW Publishing Company, Inc. © Schiller Institute, Inc. Fidelio is dedicated to the 63 promotion of a new Golden Henry VII and the Creation Renaissance based upon the concept of agap¯e or charity, as Of Shakespeare’s England that is reflected in the creation Robert Trout of artistic beauty, the scientific mastery of the laws of the physical universe, and the practice of republican statecraft for the benefit of our fellow man. Editorial 2 The Crash Is On! Subscriptions by mail are $20.00 News 79 D.C. Conference: Continue the American Revolution! for 4 issues in the U.S. and 80 International Webcasts Present Strategic Direction Canada. Airmail subscriptions 82 Organize in Italy, Mideast for New Bretton Woods to other countries are $40.00 for 82 LaRouche Made Honorary Citizen of Sao Paulo 4 issues. Payment must be made 84 Institute Hosts German-Iranian Festival in U.S. currency. Make check or 84 International Protocol For Banning Violent Videos money order payable to Schiller Institute, Inc. Interview 86 Pianist András Schiff On the Cover Exhibits 94 A Yearning for the Classical Thomas Eakins, The Thinker (Portrait of Louis N. Kenton) Commentary 99 ‘Seize the High Ground of Independent Power’ (1900). Restore the American Intellectual Tradition! Reviews 102 Economics: The End of a Delusion (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 103 Lincoln’s Virtues New York, New York, John 105 Unholy War Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1917. 106 The Beneficent Dervish 17.172) FIDPD-11-01 The Crash Is On! s this issue of Fidelio goes to press, the global The collapse, accurately forecast only by LaRouche, A financial collapse which Lyndon LaRouche can not be avoided. has forecast is an onrushing reality, despite Under these conditions, unless LaRouche's the Herbert Hoover-like denials of U.S. Secretary of economic solution is acted upon, the danger is that, not the Tr easury Paul "the fundamentals are strong," "the only will the financial collapse accelerate, but the Bush recession never happened" O'Neill. On the record, Administration will move decisively towards fascist,. LaRouche is the most successful long-range economic police-state measures domestically, and war in the forecaster of the past thirty-five years. He has never Middle East, by as early as the August-September- published a forecast which October period. President failed to materialize. The EDITORIAL Bush's speech on the Israeli­ present world and U.S. Palestinian conflict, in which monetary-financial system is he effectively gave the go­ disintegrating, exactly as he ahead to the Israelis to forecast it would. And now, as the system is eliminate Yasser Arafat, must be seen in this light. disintegrating, the only workable reform on the table What is the alternative? As LaRouche has stressed is that of LaRouche. most recently in presentations in the United Arab In the first half of2002 , U.S. stock-market values Emirates and in Sao Paulo, Brazil, reported in this Fidelio, alone have lost $1.5 trillion. Moreover, just as the New issue of the only alternative is to put the entire Economy bubble of the dot.coms and telecom sector system through the equivalent of Chapter 11 has burst, with the Nasdaq falling almost 75 percent in bankruptcy reorganization; to create a New Bretton market value since March 2000 , the next to burst will Woods system, junking free trade, deregulation, be the housing bubble. The financial pages of U.S. newspapers have rapidly become police blotters. Enron, Arthur Anderson, ImClone, Tyco, WorldCom, are not cases of "loan assassins," however. The fraud is systemic. It is the way business is done. And the For the Love of Truth biggest fraud of all, is the data provided by the U.S. government itself. There is as much substance to the government statistics, designed to prop up the he greater the gift I must bequeath upon you,­ financial bubble and promote the "economic recovery," Tand what greater gift than truth has any man to as there was to WorldCom's profit reports. give to man?-the more I must take caution that its The U.S. current account deficit for the first quarter value is not debased in my hands. of2002 was a record $112 billion. Sustaining such a There is none among you to whom history has deficit requires a flow of$1.5 billion a day in foreign nothing important to convey; however different the investment into the United States. But, the inflow has paths toward your future destinies, it somewhere in already now dropped by 55 percent. As a result, the binds them together; but one destiny you all share dollar is collapsing against both the euro and the yen. the same way with one another, that which you brought with you into this world-to educate your­ self as a human being-and history addresses itself to , Visit the Schiller Institute website at this human being. The course of studies which the scholar who www.schillerinstitute.org 2 privatization, etc., and returning to protectionism; to men most responsible for the destructive paradigm promote the Eurasian Land-Bridge; and to defend the shift of the last 35 years, the consequences of which we sovereign nation-state as the only institution capable of are now suffering. promoting the General Welfare. This choice is presented in two features and a As LaRouche has emphasized, such a reform is number of supplementary articles: Lyndon LaRouche's hated by all American Tories and their lackeys, almost "Freedom vs. 'Democracy': How 'Democracy' Became as much as they hate God Himself. All of the notable Diseased"; "Seduced from Victory: How the 'Lost expressions of lying and hatred against LaRouche and Corpse' Subverts the American Intellectual Tradition," his proposals come chiefly from what is known as the by Stanley Ezrol; and a package of articles on the "American Tory" persuasion, who recognize in origin of the sovereign nation-state-"Henry VII LaRouche what they regard as an obnoxiously and the Creation of Shakespeare's England," by effective expression of that patriotic American Robert Trout, and "William Shakespeare and Intellectual Tradition of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Sir Thomas More: The Conscience of Kings," by Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt, which they had Paul Gallagher. hoped had been stamped out. Whether the world survives the coming months is In this special double issue of Fidelio, we present ultimately up to you. Contrary to the existentialist Jean you with a clear choice between the American Paul Sartre, who wrote in No Exit that Hell is "other Intellectual Tradition of Lyndon LaRouche, and the people," we do have an exit from Hell, and that exit is American Tory tradition of the neo-Confederate to organize other people. In this war to save humanity, Nashville Agrarians, and such of their offspring as we have but one weapon--our love of the truth. Let us Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, two of the wield it as Lyndon LaRouche has done.