Last night I got accosted by a political activist in Harvard Square T station. She was pleasant, and so I asked her what she was campaigning about.
She’s handing out information about LaRouche, someone I have not had the misfortune to read about before. He’s got all the answers to the economic problems of the world, apparently.
So she explains to me how it’s really all Britain’s fault, how the British Empire has conspired against the United States to control the worlds resources through international banking. I can’t remember too much else because we ended up getting into an argument about computers and OLPC, she said “A computer won’t put shoes on a child’s feet” and I contoured a laugh. I tried to explain about the value of education in making people self empowered and thus able to make their own damn shoes if they need to. But she wasn’t convinced.
So we parted ways and she left me reading LaRouche’s “On the Next Step” on my way home. It’s a pretty big rant, it’s rationale is typical of those who are annoyed no one believes what they believe, but can’t be bothered to actually explain why.
For instance, it seems LaRouche has pretty much given up on Europe. It’s banking system he says, is irrecoverable. The system he promotes is one where the banking reserve system is directly controlled by the US government. In fact even the static exchange system means all foreign banking will be controlled by the US government. I think he’s just annoyed that in Europe the banking system isn’t joined at the hip with the governments any more and a system for static exchange wouldn’t allow US governmental control over Europe.
Not to say that there isn’t plenty wrong with the liberal allergic British government. But there are better ways of designing international banking mechanics than joining it up with political governments.
It seems he is desperate to figure out a solution, whilst being desperate to avoid socialist mechanics in his beloved capitalist ideals. Although at least when it comes to the USA, his solutions (how ever they are devined) seem to correlate with a number of other sources I’ve heard.