Question: Hey, Lyn. So, looking at back at how the youth movement originally got created, which was you, about 60-70 years ago, that was based on, you had read Leibniz, and you, as a young man, attacking Kant based on Leibniz. Now I don't really know exactly what the intention was, what the center was, when the Boomers were being organized, back a number of years ago, but now we've got Gauss, and this constructive siege on the Ivory Tower, I was kind of wondering, how we did we get here? How did we wind up, how did you, how did this become the center of things, how did you get here?

LaRouche: It's very simple. It really is awfully simple when you look at it, as I can look at it from the inside.

Very early, I knew that my parents lied. And everybody else lied. It was obvious, you know. You have, company comes -- I don't know if you ever had an experience like this, but company comes to visit the parental household. And everybody is very lovey-dovey, a nice conservation -- "Oh, we must do this again." And the minute the guests are out of the house, the parents start to gossip about the guests who just left.

You said, "Uh-uh. I got honest parents, huh? Very sincere people."

Then you get into school, you get into class-mates, and even as a young child, or playmates, as a young child, and you find they're all lying. Most of the time, they're lying. They're not telling the truth. They're trying to cultivate, they're trying to project other people's opinion of them. They don't care what they are. They're most of the time concerned about what other people, they think, other people think about them. So, they have a very weak sense of inner identity.

Well, I resented that. I didn't like any part of that, and I always got into a lot of trouble. I got whopped on the side of the head frequently on this issue, but I decided I would stick to it. Better to get whopped in the head, than be a person who depends upon reflection as a spectator of himself. Don't make a spectator of yourself, huh?

So, anyway, so I just got into one thing after the other. And when I would get run into something I didn't agree with, didn't believe, I didn't have to disagree with it. If I didn't believe it myself, if I didn't know it myself, I refused to believe it. So I had great troubles with schools, because they kept telling me things I knew were not true, and in later life, I realized I was right most of the time.

But that was easy, because, as I later discovered, they lied most of the time, so it was not difficult for me to make that kind of judgment.

So, I just took a sense of mission, and had that kind of sense.

So, coming into the wartime period, I was in India, in service, coming out of Burma. I sense a mission. I became involved in the cause of Indian independence. It was a mission. I came back. I found that my fellow soldiers were morally degenerating, under the influence of Trumanism, which was later called McCarthyism. So I first put my bets on Dwight Eisenhower, who I encouraged to run for President. He sent me a nice letter saying why he wouldn't, at that time. But, then I got involved with socialists, because they were the only ones who were fighting McCarthy.

And then, after McCarthy was defeated by Eisenhower, I looked at the socialists, and I said, "What a bunch of dummies! What am I doing here?" And got out of there.

Then came the 1960s, the Missile crisis, the assassination of Kennedy, and the rock-drug-sex counterculture began to run amok, and I decided I had to do something about it. I'd been a management consultant, which I liked doing, because I'm an economist. So, therefore, naturally I liked this stuff. And the clinical aspect of the reality of what goes on in a firm. When people tell me about business, they say they took a course in business, I say, "You don't know anything about it. I was there. And what they tell you about business, is all a big lie. It's much simpler than that. It's more complicated, but it's also simpler."

So then, I decided I had to do something. So, I ended up teaching a course at one location, a one-semester course, and I began doing it elsewhere. In the middle of things that were happening. I knew where the world economy was headed, the U.S. economy was headed. I was right. And I became more and more involved. And one day, I found, gradually, that what I had started to do, was not something I had taken over, but it had taken over me. And I've been at it ever since.

So, I've had many missions along the way, but it's that simple. I wander through life with a certain, shall we say, tropism, a certain disposition, which I can trace back to childhood, early childhood, even pre-school childhood. A stubborn cuss, who would never accept what I didn't believe, and could not be beaten into believing it, or appearing to believe it. They tried to beat me into believing it, I would disbelieve it all the more violently, and all the stronger. Because if they were beating me, they were wrong.

So, I just ... that's the way it happened. And it was very fortunate, because by having this kind of attitude, I missed a lot of the mistakes that other people make, who try to adapt too easily to the garbage that's floating around them.

I think that's it, what else can I say? I mean, that's me, in a nutshell, that's the whole. I just keep getting grabbed up by missions, and the mission grabs me, and I'm not running the mission, the mission's running me. I'm not running for President. Working as a shadow President of the United States has taken me over; I haven't taken it over.

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