A Christmas Reflection after 2000 Years: We Underestimate Victory

The election of President Trump is huge! It’s a decisive strategic victory—a victory which changes the entire map of politics, economics, and culture on a global scale for a century or more to come—not merely a tactical success. It very well may be seen as the turning point that defines the third millennium A.D. However, the impact of this transformation is not mechanistic, it is fundamentally subjective. 

What does this mean? The outcome of this huge political victory depends on the ability and willingness of leading individuals, institutions, and cultures to foresee the new potential, and set a bold course to achieve those necessary transformations of human activity, culture, and productivity that nearly everyone, just yesterday, said would be impossible. 

Terraform Mars and Earth

In a decade from now, we will see a thriving robotic industrial ecosystem on Mars, and we may even begin the process of terraforming the planet for future human civilization. This is not science fiction, but the world we now inhabit. 

But similarly and closer to home, what is our intended action for the oasis we call Earth, and our own nation, this truly remarkable United States?

President Trump is already taking strides to end the wars, close the borders, and address the corruption of government, and he has yet to even take the oath. We are looking at a Presidency which may accomplish more in four years than even President Lincoln’s. A massive expansion of electricity that triples our current national supply with an emphasis on nuclear power, and the creation of commercial fusion power are essential. Continental mega-projects like NAWAPA may be what ultimately defines the 21st Century and brings an end to the malthusian and carbon dioxide obsessions, as we begin to terraform Earth based on the beautiful potential of human civilization.

By Root and Branch

Yet the deeper structures, what St. Paul describes in Ephesians as the principalities and powers of evil can be easily overlooked, because they often are. The moment today is too great, too miraculous to accept any liberal sentiments, sentiments which encourage a too-practical and overly individualistic approach. We need to think differently, more comprehensively and with greater insight—a quality we would have called wisdom in generations prior.

Today we need bold foresight and a sense of leadership which only true human love provides, so that future generations will flourish because of our shared efforts. This is largely why President Trump was so successful, with his penetrating insights, his courage to act, his contagious quality of self-sacrifice, and especially his love of the American people. It is time to build a culture based on this quality of genius and wisdom, because America was built to unleash the powers of genius within all layers and regions of the nation. In essence, America was built to ensure the human race survives and that oligarchical rule perishes.

In our current cultural era we have come to adopt the strange view of nineteenth century British liberals, that man merely inhabits the world of animal survival, that we are limited to seeking pleasure and to avoiding pain, to live and let die. While our nation was built on basis of the God of Moses and of Christ, where God created man to explore the Divine—the seen and unseen; that the Creator expects us to use our minds to discover the beauty and potential of Creation, and to use the powers given to us to further unfold the beauty of God’s living composition.

Here are a few areas where fundamental yet simple changes can provide a far better world for future generations:

• Rebuild the foreign policy academy based on core principles of the United States, with an emphasis on American System scientific and industrial traditions. Educate new students in the languages, cultures, and economies of nations and regions of the world, and eliminate the role of foundations, extreme ideologies, and foreign policy cliques from dominating our national diplomacy.
• End the era of liberal economic fraud. British liberal economists like Adam Smith never built a viable civilization, but merely apologized for British Empire slave labor tactics. The science of economics developed by Lyndon LaRouche as an advancement of the American System of political economy sets a foundation for scientific advancement in the 21st century.
• The current popular culture is perverse, over-sexualized, and extremely violent. To address this we need to inoculate future generations in the greatest works of beauty and wisdom known to mankind. The classical compositional method introduced by Bach can prepare elementary school children to discover the Divine hand of Creation, strengthen them to endure the onslaught of cultural insanity, and begin to build a new culture of American greatness. 

The future generations and their political freedom is our greatest work of art.

America the Profound

The foreign policy, intelligence community, and surveillance economy’s structure of geopolitics and permanent war now need to be replaced with a traditional American view of nation-to-nation relations based on mutual economic interests. This turn away from traditional American policy occurred no later than 1945, and is well documented even in the opening paragraphs of the RAND Corporation’s infamous Pentagon Papers. Now decades after adopting the Nazi Crown Jurist Carl Schmidt’s political doctrine of necessary external and internal enemies of the state—think “permanent war on terror” and “MAGA is a threat to democracy”—our foreign policy establishment has painted itself into a corner of incompetence, obsession, and a blatant disregard for the majority of Americans. 

To build a new culture of foreign policy will require concentrated efforts to reshape universities over the long-term, and to build a new intelligentsia based on clear philosophical distinctions centered on the creative nature of man. We can tolerate no longer the bestial structure of British liberalism which gives rise to totalitarian systems like Schimdt’s neocons or the radical left woke mind-virus. Like the Cappadocian fathers, Augustine, and the Florentines later, let us return to Plato and the immortality of the soul as we rebuild a profound American worldview. In the short-term we need to rely on self-starters, people like Alexander Hamilton and the Revolutionary War generation, who can press forward based on personal talent rather than institutional pedigree. Trump’s nominees have reaffirmed this necessary direction.

The entire economic curriculum should be ended as a clear and present fraud, the professors retired, and a new economic science that is based on the long term success of society be instituted. Since 1971 our economy has been massively deregulated for the purposes of financialization and cheap globalized labor, while the domestic industrial and manufacturing base was consciously destroyed and our national debt exploded. Any economist who promoted or tolerated this blatant fraud, including the massive bailouts that began in 2008, should not be allowed near any classroom, boardroom, or media outlet. They have essentially stolen the future of coming generations, which is the most heinous of all crime. 

We need a revival of the American System of political economy, and to incorporate advancements in economic theory based on new scientific discoveries. Lyndon LaRouche’s work on physical economy sets a foundation for a science of economics, and places an emphasis on the powers of production and the genius of scientific discovery. 

America the Beautiful

We sit in dismay at the recurrence of school shootings, teen mental health crisis, and the deaths of despair of young adults, yet we swim in a cultural ocean polluted with banal excrement. We need to create a culture which prioritizes our shared responsibilities including our economic security, national unity, and the creation of cultural beauty.  

We can begin with an emphasis on Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven in elementary schools. These composers created some of the most profound and universal expressions of true human love and creative art, like Bach’s St. Mathew’s Passion, Mozart’s Requiem Mass, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; and are embraced in nations all over the world for their universal value. 

Let us ensure that the next generation of young Americans are not cultivated in a pop-cultural world that worships sex, violence, physical appearance, and rage. Let us inoculate our future Americans with the greatest works of beauty and wisdom, so as they reach adulthood they can personally affirm the Divine hand in Creation. What better way to secure the future.

Today, we have an incredible opportunity to inspire new generations in the tradition of true American genius, to break from the false and misleading ideologies of the past and set a new course, where we once again can demonstrate the willful beauty of humankind as God’s greatest creation.

The moment is upon us.