04/24/2021
Two Committed Pilots, Avoid the Crash: Committee of the Coincidence of Opposites
Steven George Rendon
sgr6 4.21.21
Re: EIR v48n16, larouchepub.com/eiw
www.patreon.com/sgr (free archive)
Take a moment to appreciate the irony: the oligarchy created modern racism, through slavery, Jim Crow, and Na**sm, to distract attention away from its endless imperial war and the famine of free trade neocolonialism, but, wait! Have no fear: Wall Street, having changed its ways, will save us from white racism, by sponsoring black racism, so long as we again do not oppose the N**i war of aggression against Russia and China and its attendant famine policy of depopulation behind the Environmentalist’s banker cult. Scene 2: Obama’s Wall Street HMO system, privatized our healthcare to the point of a breakdown crisis, and now its authors use the COVID pandemic—only a pandemic because of the chaotic breakdown preconditions that the empire imposed in the first place—again, to distract from the imperial war and its economic slavery. If that doesn’t make your head spin, and your heart skip a beat, you might want to take inventory.
How do we fight against COVID? Do we make nice with 3 masks per or***ce, assume the prepper’s bunker paranoia, and find solace in a voting record that proudly supports Biden’s war party? Well, that’s Tweedledum; what about Tweedledee? Do we scoff at public health measures because we’re okay with prematurely losing a million or so vulnerable souls, so long as it’s (probably) not oneself? Put it this way: What’s a couple million dead, or even a few million, or even a few hundred million, with the next, more deadly variant or other disease, either novel or resurgent from older now-dormant pathogens? We have almost 8 billion people on this planet, right? But that kind of collapse in the skilled demographic of retirees and others, that kind of indifferent moral collapse, would turn into social chaos, and social chaos degenerates into political chaos, and political chaos means {war}, and modern warfare culminates into nuclear Armageddon, showing that millions perishing quickly degenerates into {billions} dead, and ultimately extinction for us and doom for the biosphere itself, without NASA, stuck on a rock whose days are numbered. Neither of these twins actually addresses the economic and health breakdown crisis that will surely perpetuate pandemics, with this or that disease, until society chaotically upends under the pressure.
How do we remedy the deprivation associated with historical racism? Tweedledum: ‘Let’s view ourselves as a people without a history; let’s support celebrities and mega-wealthy corporations, and abolish law enforcement, because it makes us feel good.’ Tweedledee: ‘It’s just a coincidence that the poor and victims of violence are disproportionately black and brown.’ Too busy to organize to work for a dignified living standard, these twins seem to be locked in a tug-of-war, each tied to one end of a rope at the waist, knotted, each on a different cliff separated by a chasm, and the winner gets to be pulled down into the abyss only a moment after tugging his brother over the edge.
Responding to this conundrum, flying to the rescue (these twins being our cousins n all), Helga and Dr. Elders launched two pilot projects focussing specifically on Washington D.C. and Mozambique—under the direction of their Committee of the Coincidence of Opposites—with a bird’s-eye view, a universal template for communities around the world to join hands and take control over their shared destiny. As people who understand FDR and the New Deal know, Martin Luther King’s Poor People's Campaign is probably what got him shot: addressing poverty is the most impactful and meaningful strategy to alleviate the evil of racism. Furthermore, tangibly advocating for education and health, through community organization, is the best and perhaps only way to reverse poverty trends. What’s more, what is the infrastructure of community organization, but the necessary requisite for political organization and empowerment? It’s a necessary and universal engine for progress, ridding the individual’s social isolation and welcoming the poor of all color, back to the chambers of power, renewing faith in humanity for all people, that the republic might renew.
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