Question: Hi, I'm from L.A. This might be kind of a continuation, but I'm going to go for it anyway. There's two. First, why did God design the voice with register shifts? Why does the voice have them? Why do we need the shift?

And then, we have a program; it's called Operation Revive Plato, out here. And people are a little bit freaked out about Plato. We've been reading it for months, some people only a couple weeks, some people a couple years, and it seems that we get easily freaked out about the slanders. He's a fascist -- things like that. And you mentioned in this Essential Fraud of Leo Strauss memo, that the constructive geometry is the method to actually know Plato. And then, the mapping of the mind. And so, how do we do this? How do we come to know the real mind of Plato?

LaRouche: Well, it takes a lot of work. Plato's a very big mind, and there's a lot to explore.

But, essentially, the constructive geometry is simple, because, you remember... Let's take the two cases which are the most crucial, for the simple part of the thing. The doubling of the square, which is a simple mean problem, but then the doubling of the cube, which is a double mean problem. And look at that, realize that Plato's understanding of that, as in his understanding of the Theatetus construction of the proof of the Platonic solids, that these kinds of proof -- or that, say, the proof of the Pythagorean principle. What Pythagoras gives us, for example, which is really a Platonic principle, is only a description. We only have a description of what Pythagoras did. We don't have a writing by Pythagoras in which he says how he defined the comma. His students tell us. And his students say, you compare the human singing voice, with a monochord, and by intervals sung by a human singing voice, as opposed to a monochord, the same proportions by a monochord.

Now, if you have a trained human singing voice, you see that there is a difference. And this difference defines the comma. So now the comma is not a mathematical magnitude, of an algebraic or mathematic type, but is a physical phenomenon, so therefore, we know that Pythagoras was right. Or at least he was right because his students, who had to be honest people because they made an honest report, report an experiment that works. And all the other things, the same thing.

So, therefore, you say, "All right." Now the method by which Plato in his dialogues, Socratic dialogues, demonstrates principles like this, in respect to geometry, which is constructive principles -- it all involves construction, not deduction, but construction -- is a standard of truth in Plato. So, Plato is based on truth. Now, we look at the other aspects of Plato, where the same method is applied to other subjects, such as social subjects. We see the same thing.

Then you look at it as against the background of Classical tragedy, which Plato was a critic of. The tragedies of Sophocles and Aeschylus. You get the same thing. Ah! Then you look at Solon, who's a hero for Plato, and look at Solon's poem. Oh, that's the truth too, isn't it? Of how a society degenerated. Going back to their old Baby Boomer ways. Again, it's an example.

So, therefore, it's this sense -- that's why I did this work with the Gauss. One has to start with the sense of a standard of truth. We're living in a society in which the Baby Boomer generation, in particular, has lost its connection to a relationship to truth, and has become a generation of opinions, based on pleasure, in experiencing what is associated with expressing such and such an opinion, or following it. So, therefore, we're in a decadent society, which is based on opinions, not on truth. Therefore, my concern was, get us back to truth, and give young people a standard for knowing what the truth is.

Now, the question of God is -- I've dealt a great deal with it. It's really quite simple, isn't it?

If you look at the question of discovery, of principle, the discovery of universal principle... Discovery of a principle is never a result of a sharing of opinions. If it's an opinion, it's not a principle. The discovery of a principle is always done by an individual mind, by a capability which exists only in the personality of individual minds.

Now, what is the universe composed of? Well, the universe is composed of principles, the kind of principles we discover. They were always there. They're interrelated. Well, where did the universe begin? It has no beginning. It has no end. It has no outside. It is the universe. Where did the principles come from? Principles are determined only by a personality, a human-type of personality. So, there is a personality behind the universe. The universe has a personality, a willful personality, of which man's personality, as a creative personality, is a copy. And by knowing ourselves as a copy, we know the Creator.

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