Concentrate on What Should be Done

Lyndon LaRouche made the following remarks Saturday morning, September 5th,

"Now, what's going to happen — see, again, you've got to change one big thing about thinking of the American population: because we live in a Sarpian society, a Sarpian culture, albeit an American one, rather than a European variety, people think of popular opinion! And if you look at the performance of the United States, from an economic and moral standpoint, both, since the death of Franklin Roosevelt, popular opinion is a disease, that you don't want to catch — or pass on, to anyone but your worst enemy! So therefore, reality, not popular opinion, is going to have to determine what we do. And you have a population, which, as I've indicated already, the factors which have to be supplied to the population immediately, the first steps of simply stopping the hell, and starting a recovery, is going to set a way of thinking loose in the population, different than they've had up till now!

So, don't try to say, "Popular opinion and natural tendencies, people are.... or people will..." You don't know what people are, yet. You don't know what people will. So, why not just concentrate on what people should. Because that's what you're coming to. Things have to be done, because they should be done. Because if they weren't done, the nation's going to go to hell! So therefore, they have to be done, because they should be done. Not because somebody wishes them to be done.

The firemen wish to be firemen. The police to be police. The local government to be local government, schools to be schools. And this is all determined by a platform, like the type of platform I specified as a theory of platform: Infrastructure as platform. And the platform and the demands of the platform are going to determine, and the next determination of how that's going to work, is based on the intention of development.

So, what's going to happen on space, is, first of all, we're going to have to develop the environment in a completely new way: We want green all over the place. We're going to get rid of all these solar collector, they're just a fire hazard. We're going to get rid of all these windmills, out of kindness to birds. I mean, the bird you love, might be killed by a windmill, you know. It'd be in mourning, that's what mourning doves are for.

Anyway so, in any case, we've got to do certain things, as mandatory. And NAWAPA is going to mean the development of the environment, as a consequence of just what we're doing. Now, we're forced to think about this environment in a completely different way than most people were thinking about it up to now. And NAWAPA is going to force that question, and also, trying to manage the Arctic region! You know, there's an ocean up there, you know: The Arctic. And we share it with Russia, Canada, and the United States, especially Alaska, together. And that ocean is very important.

Now, we have a certain level of ice, glacial ice on this planet, and the biggest concentration in Antarctica, because it's the south, that's why it's cold. So therefore, we have to manage the whole climate of this planet. We're now meddling with the climate. We're going to increase the amount of green, on this planet, on Earth, itself! We're going to have lush green growth, where you had dirty, old deserts. And we're going to have to manage the atmosphere: We've got to have a clean atmosphere, buddy. This is not a joke: Most of these guys, talking about clean air, are freaks because of the way they're talking about it, but we want clean air! What we would call natural systems, which tend to help that happen: one of the best things, is, increasing the water throughput, 2.7 times the amount of extra water we're putting through the system of the NAWAPA system is one of our first breaks in this direction.

We're going to have to manage the weather — again, in new ways, on a global scale. And this is going to bring up other questions. What about the Heaviside layer, what about all these other things. You know the Earth has got a big cocoon around it, a protective cocoon which keeps some of the worst and most dangerous radiation from hitting us on Earth, without this blanket to help us, the blanket of the atmosphere and beyond. And therefore, we're got to make sure we manage that properly.

Now, once we get into the idea of going from NAWAPA, increasing the weight, the seismic pressure in the mountain areas, you know you got a put a lot of pressure up there, with all that water up there, 3,000 feet up, and so forth? That's going to be a lot of pressure.

So, you're going to have to manage the whole system. And once we think about how we have to manage the system of Earth, with a growing population for example, and how we raise the standard of living for those people who are living, we will have a lower birth rate, it just will happen naturally, because of the improvements in the quality of life, the improvements in productivity, lowered rates of infant mortality, that sort of thing.

But we're going to have to manage this planet. And therefore, when we think about managing the planet, we have to say, "what do we have to manage it for? What are we protecting it from, by managing the planet?" Because the conditions we're going to protect on Earth, are subsidiary to the conditions which protect the Earth from the unpleasant, and fatal types of pressures, coming from within the Solar System. We're going to have to get into the area of looking at the radiation: You know, there's no empty space out there. That space is full of cosmic radiation of all kinds. Some of it, human beings would consider quite nasty, and some which we would consider delicious. So therefore, we've got to manage that.

So the minute we're doing this, we're going to a mission-orientation, where we understand that increasing the energy-flux-density of primary sources of power is a mandatory requirement. And this will lead us into managing the planet, by looking at it from the Moon, and looking at it from the Sun's vantage point: How do we protect this planet Earth, on which we live, from the outside? It's being protected already, we just haven't paid much attention to that, so far.

But we want to go to Mars, why? Because we want to protect the planet, planet Earth. And we learn something from Johannes Kepler, on that, from his studies of this problem. So therefore, we're going to do that. And we have a manifest destiny built into us in this direction. And the manifest destiny is, the minute we begin to think about taking responsibility for the management of Earth, and for the people who live in it, and to understand the Earth better, we're going into areas of technology, which we have not considered our responsibility, heretofore. We are now going to think of the physics of nearby space, the physics within this range of the Solar System. And once we do that, we have to think about a 1-gravity speed system going to Mars — and further, wherever humanity wants to go. That's what they have to start thinking about, a basic 1-gravity capability in terms of speed. So we're going to go beyond, we're going into space. Future generations will have humanity within the galaxy, and beyond that, there's a time will come, when mankind will live beyond this galaxy, and will undertake things which we never even dream of today. But that's good! We don't have to have all the answers. We have to have to develop the right questions, and develop some of the answers, at least partially to those questions; and then, reach out, to take some more questions.

So I think, if we take NAWAPA, and look at it in the proper way, and think about extending the same idea, to other parts of the planet, and think about the management of the planet as a whole, for the sake of human beings, then we have to think about space, nearby space, and once we get our toe in the water on that one, who knows where we'll be going? So, I say, let's bite off one chew: That chew is this 21st century. Let's take the 21st century, and look about the three plus generations that are going to be born in this century. And let's think about what their fate is, what their development is, and what they're going to accomplish, before the century is completed. And you'll find, all the answers to your implied question, I think will lie in that direction."