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Chapter 3: Consciously Making History.History tells us that the rulers of Rome responded unwisely to all the signs of the empire's near disintegration. They responded by intensifying the same policy direction that had undermined the Empire in the first place. The present society is embarked on the same course, blindly ignoring the reality that it does not wish to see. Only a few stand up and demand a new direction. History does not have to repeat itself, they insist. They are engaged in a momentous uphill battle, however. Even after Rome had fallen, the 'spirit of Rome' had not vanished. Other empires adapted Roman policies and ideologies, and in due course, failed as a consequence. One notable empire even went as far as adopting the name of Rome, calling itself the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy nor Roman, but had merely adopted the centralized power structure that Rome had been famous for. Whether mankind will seize the golden opportunity as its current system is collapsing, and shape a new course, or whether it will choose to go down with the sinking ship, cannot be determined. This, only future historians will be able to ascertain. What historians describe will depend largely on the actions of governments and on the spirituality of the society, or the lack thereof, that determines the policies of governments. Apart from society as a whole, a well directed individual initiative can alter the course of governments and shape the future of the global society. Ideas that are founded on fundamental principles can have such a profound effect, especially when the principles can become generally understood. In others words, profound changes can be set in motion by a single individual. History has demonstrated this well. The global initiative of Lyndon LaRouche. The American statesman and economist, Lyndon LaRouche is presently (1997) engaged in effecting a dramatic change on the world-scene that is designed to prevent the global disintegration of the West's financial and economic systems, if not the global system. He is lobbying for a meeting of the world's leaders for the purpose of shutting down the world-financial system and replace it with one that has worked successfully in history for developing the human potential. He recognizes the present system as an essentially feudal, oligarchic financial system created for the purposes of looting. Thus, he hopes to create an understanding that will cause the world's leaders to replace this system with a system based on national sovereignty and direct national investment for the needed reindustrialization and infrastructure development on which mankind's future depends. He points out that unless the conditions are created that are essential for a society to develop its human potential, the society is unfit to survive, much less has any hope for a bright future. The request he issued is far a reaching one, but it is fundamentally simple. Since recent history has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that feudal monetarism, deindustrialization, and the destruction of infrastructures is fatal to the structure of society and its existence, the opposite should be pursued. He suggests that the feudal monetary system, that is inherently entropic, must be replaced with a system that supports infinite development, and the time to do this, is now. He states bluntly that the present system cannot be repaired, that it cannot be saved, that any effort to do so is identical to preserving a disease instead of the life of a dying patient. As a scientific economist he has long learned to recognize the process by which the feudal systems disintegrate once speculation becomes rampant and exhausts the physical economy that supports all human life. Such a system disintegrates. Huge interlocked leveraged gambling that dwarves the economies of many nations combined, has set the stage for a discontinuity similar to a dream shattered by the touch of reality. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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