Executive Intelligence Review; Volume 42, Issue 14: Published April 3, 2015 (en Inglés)
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March 27-Man is not an animal. Unlike any animal ever known to us, Man can directly apprehend the future, and correctly know the future, through a discovery of principle, -like the discoveries of physical principle by Albert Einstein, or, more profoundly, by Einstein's acknowledged predecessor Johannes Kepler, who invented modern physical science. Animals, the creatures of flesh and blood, live in the present and the past. Man, who is not flesh and blood, lives in the future, to the extent that he is actually human, -that is, to the extent that he is creative. "Practical people" are merely foolish people. "Practical knowledge," is only another name for ignorance. Man's continued existence in this Universe, depends on nothing but revolutionary advances of discovery of principle, typified by breakthroughs in science and art. It depends on the Promethean spirit which overturns all the tables of existing practical doctrines, all the cant of University-approved, orthodox scholars, -to create ever-new knowledge, -the same quality which uniquely makes man human. In fact, history, art, and science correctly understood, all attest that the very inner nature, the true essence of the Universe itself, is in reality nothing other than the revolutionary advance of creative discovery itself. This was already understood by Heracleitus and Plato. In the course of an inspiring discussion on these themes with associates on March 24, EIR's Founding Editor, the great contemporary genius Lyndon LaRouche, noted that the large majority of people are only able to think creatively, on the condition that they have a President who at least has some idea of what creative thinking is (as the last two of course have had no
