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The Search for a Mislaid Truth
31 October 2013
A deeper examination of the folly of sense-perception, which began with the author’s ’Nicholas of Cusa, Kepler & Shakespeare,’ in EIR, June 21, 2013. Contrary to the foolish believers in mere sense-perception, LaRouche writes, ’The distinction of the human being from all other, presently known types of living creatures, lies, intrinsically, in the behavior representing a potential for effecting willfully selfdirected categories of, specifically, ontologically upward changes in the expressed, intrinsically willful characteristics of the human species per se.’ Actually, how good, or bad, is sense-perception? Or, to put the question squarely, how far should you really trust sense-perceptions, and for what purposes? Therefore, go back, once more, to my own “bench-mark” publication of June 10, 2013, Nicholas of Cusa, Kepler & Shakespeare,1 and to closely related, subsequent publications of mine, on the same subject, which I had uttered, earlier, during the course of this present year to date. Take into account the history of mankind’s past, and then current beliefs, such as, in particular, the still lingering fraud of Euclid in our educational systems, as contrasted with the proper indictment for which Bernhard Riemann had aimed in respect to the then-continued follies of the contemporary geometry of his own time: follies which, in the large, had been perpetrated, as if officially, in presently, still contemporary, academic times: especially since the dominant, post-World War I role of the modern arch-hoaxster, Bertrand Russell. Now, the world is presently hovering at, figuratively, the brink of the opportunity for mankind’s contemplated ventures into nearby Intra-Solar space, and, prospectively, beyond. There, sense-perception as we had thought that we had understood it from within the climates of Earth, is now menaced with a loss of control brought on by those evil old, oligarchical habits on which mankind had depended, now, too long. Our old habits will, even at their best, no longer suffice; the old habits of sense-perception are challenged by our species’ “toe-in-the-water” gestures in the direction of a relatively nearby part of solar space. Now, just as Nicholas of Cusa had demanded an escape from the Atlantic boundaries of Europe, to enter a... [To continue, click here] |