The sausage factory that produces the most unreadable polemical cult dreck is breaking down
(After I make a jab at one of those two recent slightly dazed Larouchites’ comments on re-entering college while “bringing the best of Larouche’s ideas with them”.)
I. “But Howie, didn’t you know that all the professors in the country have an anti-Lyn litmus test that’s part of their getting in to academia?”
One of the senior members once said this to me. The professoriat, you see, is deeply implicated in the system of thought control whereby the oligarchy runs history. The physicist and scientific community constitutes a “Babylonian priesthood” where silly practices like peer review and “blackboard mathematics” prevail. Paranoid thought is rampant in the organization, and not just with Lyn. On election night in ’04, when Kerry had won New Jersey or something the above-mentioned senior member said to me excitedly, “This is going to be seen as our victory!” Supposedly Lyn’s yutes yodeling outside the Democrat’s convention hall in Boston, had completely transformed Kerry and the Party. The ’04 convention has thus taken on the status of a sacred event in the organization’s mythos, where the vast power of the LYM was rolled out to such immense effect and Lyn became a “serious force” in the party. Equal parts delusion and toadying: Lyn has tried vigorously in the last few years to suck up to Bill Clinton and play for some pull in the Democratic Party. A lot of his recent initiatives can be explained by this. Also remember that it’s standard operating procedure to demonize and fearmonger: we must stop Judge Roberts and Alito from making us go Nazi and invade Poland. Continuous Demon Rollover is required, which has the normal effect of mobilizing the members to get out there and bring in some LPAC checks. If you fail, you are impotent. Quite a system… Of late the youth have shown their might by getting California’s and Massachusetts’ state Dem conventions to actually go on the record endorsing impeachment. Wow! I bet that was really tough. It’s interesting to try to forecast who might be the next demonic fiend.
II. The Boston 2004 Democratic Convention is an important myth indeed.
LaRouche wrote something or other for the LYM intervention there, and it was rushed through production at PMR and rushed up to Boston–Ken Kronberg worked on it himself, to make sure it got there. Nancy Spannaus called up LaRouche and tried to get the word on how many he wanted. He mumbled something.
When the pamphlets or leaflets or whatever they were arrived, there weren’t enough, or something. LaRouche went crazy, denouncing Nancy Spannaus primarily (Kronberg only by association)for sabotaging his Presidential campaign and destroying the world, etc. To this very day, he insists that there were Dark Forces on the NEC willfully trying to sabotage his campaign yadda yadda–all because someone asked him how many he wanted printed and then went with the information he gave them.
However, The Right prevailed, and even though leaders in his own organization were trying to destroy his campaign, the presence of LYM singing Jesu, Meine Freude outside the Democratic Convention turned the tables. By the end of the convention, LaRouche had been brought in at the top of the Kerry campaign, Bob Shrum and the “Kennedy people” were out, and LaRouche was running Kerry’s campaign. Wow.
This one-way romance was dashed quite recently, when Kerry said to a couple of LYMers at some public event, “LaRouche is nuts.” Ouch. It’s like when, back in 1988, then-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush said, in response to a question in Iowa or somewhere, “LaRouche? Isn’t he in jail yet?” Not then–but soon.
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III. Lyn has a new document in process, “The Rules of Survival” apparently, wherein it will doubtless be shown how indispensable Lyn is to the current strategic situation, and how he must be brought in to guide us forward if the world is not to be plunged in to the New Dark Age. Perhaps there are five hundred or a thousand previous papers treating of this theme. We hope this one is of the same illustrious quality as previous gems like the Dirichlet treatise. Maybe one of the youth could correct me if I’m in error, but I think the premise of that one was basically that the mathematician Dirichlet’s work proved how critical is the existence of the LYM.
Lyn’s editors maybe can’t heal his tortured, garbled unreadable prose anymore. In the 90’s his papers and books were much better. In the last couple of years even the published stuff has gotten increasingly unreadable. Where Lyn really shines though is in the unpublished briefing notes to the members. There we encounter really really horrible, slapdash junk, sentences so brutalized and syntax so tortured that you have to think he’s doing it on purpose. But the true adept/member/LYM leader/acolyte pores over it as the latest holy writ.
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IV. Several things have happened to Lyn’s writings in recent years (even though I would say that everything he ever wrote had a tortured, artificial, and ignorant quality to it).
First, Lyn is definitely losing whatever tenuous grasp he once had on language (not to mention reality).
Second, he allows nothing to be edited or copyedited in the slightest degree.
Third, editors who used to sneak in editing changes have long since figured, who cares? So they let stand stuff that’s obviously crackers.
Fourth, the editorial staff is a skeleton crew, and no longer a very good one.
But, as charltonrom says, the tea-leaf readers will continue to find Lyn’s brew a heady potion.………………………..
May 28th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Speaking of sausage factories breaking down, with the LaRouche org’s destruction of WorldComp and PMR, they are in quite a pickle in terms of where to print, especially because using a non-LaRouche printer means having to pay.
In the past year, the following LaRouche publications have croaked: New Federalist, 21st Century Science & Technology (now “online” but really dead), and Fidelio (partly for money, partly because Kronberg, who edited it, just stopped doing it last year).
Hanging on by a thread are EIR magazine and occasional pamphlets, pretty much printing LaRouche ramblings at webcasts.
However, the reduced runs of publications and the loss of many of the publications doesn’t mattermuch, because the LYM couldn’t get the stuff out anyhow.
The sausage factory and sausages have moved online.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:00 am
That would explain, in part, the sudden rush I have been getting of Larouche materials online. The other part I had inferred from a sort of throw-away quote from one of those memos (which I would have dig to up if I ever was motivated enought to) that the “baby-boomers” had let the online side of the equation fall aside.