Laughter, Music and Creativity
President Donald Trump is leading a spectacular 3rd American Revolution, following in the footsteps of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
President Donald Trump is leading a spectacular 3rd American Revolution, following in the footsteps of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He is destroying the religion called globalism and reviving that jewel of western civilization – the nation state. It is through national sovereignty, the love of our nation and its revolutionary tradition that the will is found to fight for and create an economic and cultural renaissance.
But there is a deep-rooted threat, a pervasive danger, which none of us can afford to ignore. Following the assassination of President John Kennedy, a bestial culture, featuring the known destructive power of atonal rock music on the human mind, rampant drug use, and sexual obsession was imposed, top down, in the United States by the globalists. This counterculture was meant to destroy the spiritual fiber of this country and especially targeted young people. Scientific progress and even the idea of knowable Truth itself came under attack, and the value and sanctity of human life was thrown under the bus.
This attack on the soul of America has been ongoing for 60 years. Now, move forward to today. We see the unbelievable damage that has been inflicted upon us, with a moral and cultural dark age that threatened to extinguish forever the sacred principles upon which our nation was founded.
President Trump is now leading the fight to rescue and restore the mission of our Republic, and he is taking on the same network that killed Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the same network that brought in the drugs and human trafficking, the same network that has created gender confusion and even species confusion!
The moral degradation is obvious to any clear-thinking person, but it is now so advanced that many thinking and concerned people ask, “How can we reverse this? How can we bring our nation and humanity back to being truly human again, to recognize that all human beings are made in the image of our Creator?”
The answer is . . . . CULTURE. Food for the soul.
As Lyndon LaRouche said, culture expresses your view of mankind. Are we mere beasts, to be shorn and slaughtered? Or are we truly made in the image of our divine Creator, capable of making discoveries that move mankind forward while conveying their power and beauty to other human beings? By surrounding ourselves with beauty, we CAN grasp the true nature of man. We CAN reach the hearts, and souls, and minds of our fellow Americans, with the help of Beethoven, Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Einstein, Lincoln and many others,we can reach the better part of our souls - with Laughter, Music and Creativity.
“Cat is NOT God spelled backwards.” But, also, “Why do dogs always look so confused? Because they’re still trying to figure out why cats don’t care!"
See, everyone gets equal “ouch” here. Expect lots of pun-ishment.
Great classical music is essential for inspiring creativity and developing the moral character of the individual listener. True art engages the heart, mind and soul of the listener or viewer. Great art songs are a vital source of accessing deeper universal truths, those that elevate man above the beast. All the key elements of counterpoint are demonstrable in terms of a single voice.
Franz Schubert, who only lived 31 years, composed over 600 art songs (lieder). Lieder are intimate compositions, for voice and piano, that set poetry to music. One lied by Schubert, An Die Musik, is a beautiful expression of these ideas. It is a prayer, by Schubert, to Art itself, as art transports us to a better world, in face of all of life's challenges.
Here are two performances, one by Fischer-Dieskau and one by Suzanne Taffot. I have also linked to an interview with Fischer-Dieskau, one of the world’s greatest baritones. Watch and listen to them yourself. See how they touch your soul even if you know nothing of the method by which they were composed:
An die Musik
Du holde Kunst, in wie viel grauen Stunden,
Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt,
Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb entzunden,
Hast mich in eine beßre Welt entrückt.
Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir,
Den Himmel bessrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür.
To music
Oh beauteous art, in so many dreary hours,
Where I have been swept up in the savage circle of life,
You have ignited my heart, giving it a warmer love.
You have carried me off into a better world.
There has often been a sigh flowing from your harp,
A sweet sacred chord of yours,
Which has opened up to me the better times of heaven.
Oh beauteous art, I thank you for it.
“Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert her, but that I never deserted her.
“I know that the great volcano at Washington, aroused and directed by the evil spirit that reigns there, is belching forth the lava of political corruption in a current broad and deep, which is sweeping with frightful velocity over the whole length and breadth of the land, bidding fair to leave unscathed no green spot or living thing.
"I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I too, may be; but bow to it I never will.
“The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not deter us from the support of a cause we know to be just. It shall never deter me.
“If ever I feel the soul within me elevate to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its All Mighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly alone, and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
“Here, without contemplating consequences, before heaven, and in the face of the world, I swear eternal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty, and my love; and who that thinks with me will not fearlessly adopt the oath that I take?
“Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed.
“But if; after all, we shall fail, be it so; we have the proud consolation of saying to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgement, and, adorned of our heart's in disaster, in chains, in death, we never faltered in defending.
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield, Illinois 1840
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