YK,
Thank you for your answer to my post.
The fact that you acknowledge that LaRouche has a brilliant mind while others dismiss him as an idiotic or crazy man shows there is a disconnect somewhere.
I actually see no disconnect here, as surely some of the most brilliant thinkers throughout mans history also have their fatal flaws. I think it is possible to have the 'crazy' and 'brilliant' connected in one man and often at one moment. Do you not agree?
For you info: The fundamental view of oligarchism is that man is a mere beast and a servant to the oligarch. The opposed view is that man is made in the image of God. Nearly all social and political struggles in the last 500 year period can best be explained by this phenomenon of antagonism. So, as a classical humanist, LaRouche feels that classical music is one of the highest forms of art which uplifts the human mind in ways that I certainly can't explain, but not suprisingly he does. He recognizes that rock and roll music is debasing, which of course, we have all heard before elsewhere. But, he also explains how the Tavistock institute has been involved over the last 60 years in a massive brainwashing operation by training their operatives in a certain mindset, and then gradually, over decades, using those agents to infiltrate the media and subvert it with bestial forms of entertainment for the purpose of demoralizing the population, similar to the dehumanizing Roman policy of "bread and circus." The fact that such a condition prevails leads me to think that it's true. Basically, as far as I'm concerned, LaRouche explains how the Devil does his work through various human agencies.
He is of course not the first commentator of modern times to begin to draw similar conclusions. Mircea Eliade begins to explore similar motifs in his book 'The Two And The One', and another book that I found very useful is Roger Hazelton’s book ‘A Theological Approach To Art’. I have even read argued that post-mediaeval classical music was the beginning of the end of mankind. I would agree that music is the most powerful of the artistic disciplines as it is a universal and emotional language and can lift the heart into heaven or fill a heart with ‘bestiality’ dependent on its motives. The Devil’s involvement is subjective, as when I first came along to the WTS in the early 70’s, I was heavily counseled for listening to Jazz music by the Cong. Servant! It was described as ‘worldly’ and ‘demonic’, because they perceived it as having no structured form and was thus open to the influence of Demons. I suspect few would try to defend this position today.
I have such heavily opinionated views on music that I seldom share them publicly lest they lead to my early death. What I will say is that in my opinion at the bottom level of the current musical food chain is ‘rap’ music and at the top end is British Jazz, possibly the most underestimated art form the past hundred years.
Anyway, YK thank you for an interesting thread. Just to let you know that I respect your intelligence, and defend your right to reach any intellectual conclusions that you see fit too, but am not terribly impressed with the way that you change a persons ‘handle’, such as ‘Sneaker’, ‘Fraudbacker’, ‘Hilarys Mis-Step’. etc., not so funny; above all crass, and sarcasm that is certainly wasted on me.
Best regards -- HS
