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The Fall of the House of Usher premieres on Netflix October 12. This spoiler-free review is part of our Fantastic Fest 2023 coverage.

The first thing you need to know about Mike Flanagans The Fall of the House of Usher is that its not the story youre expecting. Dont take that to mean that reverence for Edgar Allan Poe isnt front and center, though: Every minute of this series worships Poe. But rather than directly translating the authors tale of a man whose internal rot is symbolized by his crumbling abode, Flanagan uses the short story as what could almost be described as the wraparound segment in an anthology, with each chapter tackling another one of Poes fables while mummified in the wrappings of The Fall of the House of Usher. What comes out of that mummification is some of Flanagans best work.

Which isnt to say that the shows story comes off as disjointed. What Flanagan and his team of writers did wasnt just develop individual odes to The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and more they married them together to create what is one of the most impeccable shows in recent memory. What makes this House of Usher decidedly not an anthology is the way that the writers intricately weave the main players stories throughout each episode.

The Usher family is quite big. This is thanks largely to Roderick Ushers (Bruce Greenwood), well, lets just say appetite. Only some of the mothers of his children are seen, but the matriarchs that matter to the story are Rodericks sister Madeline (Mary McDonnell), and much-younger wife Juno (Ruth Codd), who youll hear called child bride quite often. Much of our attention is focused on the children, who fall into one of two camps: Tamerlane (Samantha Sloyan) and Frederick (Henry Thomas) are the only two direct Usher heirs born in wedlock, while media mogul and sex addict Camille (Kate Siegel), game developer and drug addict Napoleon (Rahul Kohli), surgeon Victorine (TNia Miller), and screwup Prospero (Sauriyan Sapkota) are The Bastards. There's also a granddaughter in the mix: Lenore (Kyliegh Curran). Joining the Effed-up Family of the Year in their complicated and messy lives are Mark Hamill as Arthur Pim, Carla Gugino as Verna, and Carl Lumbly as Auguste Dupin.

The point of prattling off all of these names is twofold. First, they offer hints for those with a keen eye for Poes work. And second? Every single performance listed above and even some that are saved for later is perfect. Without an ounce of sarcasm, hyperbole, or figurative speech, they are all just perfect.

Over the years, Flanagan has cultivated a stable of actors the Flanafam, as theyre known to fans many of whom are showcased in The Fall of the House of Usher. Whats kept things from getting stale as the company has moved with the filmmaker through the works of Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Christopher Pike, Hasbro, and now Poe is that none of them are ever typecast. Sloyan and Kohli are oceans apart from their Midnight Mass characters here, while The Haunting of Hill Houses Theodora Crain would have smacked Camille into oblivion. The Fall of the House of Usher gives the entire cast a brand new playground, and everyone is having the time of their lives. (Or time of their deaths? You get the idea.)

The Haunting of Hill House set the bar for scares in Flanagans filmography, and The Fall of the Usher meets those expectations with ease thanks to the work of cinematographer Michael Fimognari (Flanagan and Fimognari have enjoyed a long partnership, dating back to 2013s Oculus). Like Hill House before it, House of Usher features a good blend of slow, spooky scares and outright shrieks as Roderick recounts his complicated tale to Auguste in the musty carcass of his childhood home. Both the past and present timelines are filled with the kind of horrors youve come to expect from Flanagan, but he really flexes in the methodology of murder as tragedy barrels its way through the Usher family.

Of course, that tragedy is more for the patriarch than it is for us, and their deaths, while instrumental to the story, arent really what its about. Though their respective demises come in varying degrees and patterns of awful, almost every member of the House of Usher is despicable in their own way. Imagine watching Succession and seeing each of the series miserable players get what they deserve in the most lethal way possible? Thats the type of delicious schadenfreude that The Fall of the House of Usher offers. We watch on as each victim Usher or otherwise makes their proverbial bed despite the grace of the literal warnings offered. After all, hubris, like any of the fine products from the Roderick-run Fortunato, is a hell of a drug.

The Usher empire is propped up by both. In bringing Poes fables to the contemporary world, Flanagans The Fall of the House of Usher centers on some of todays greatest evils. Fortunato the Ushers pharmaceutical company and a name plucked from Poes The Cask of Amontillado is the core driver behind all of Roderick and Madeline Ushers actions. Meanwhile, the latters obsession with immortality is constantly playing on the fringes, only brought to the forefront to appropriately mock AI and any place it has in storytelling or the human experience as a whole.

Theres not a moment where The Fall of the House of Usher doesnt shine, whether its in the gloss of Louboutins or the pools of blood. From Susan Davis costume department to the extensive visual effects team, each crew came together to deliver their absolute A-game. The new entry into the Mike Flanagan pantheon is always firing on all cylinders, and its sure to join many a fans annual rotation of spooky time traditions.

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The MCU's Hulk may be an A-list Avenger, but Marvel Studios has barely showed Bruce Banner's backstory and the events that led to the Gamma monster's creation prior to The Incredible Hulk. A founding member of the MCU's Avengers, Hulk has left a mark on the MCU since his debut in 2008's The Incredible Hulk, after which he has remained a supporting character across several movies and his cousin's spinoff series, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law. Hulk has learned how to be a team player, controlled his monstrous nature, became a full-fledged hero, and merged the man with the monster before playing a key role in saving the universe.

But as much as the MCU has developed Hulk's journey, some important parts of his comic book lore remain largely unexplored, including his origin story and his time fleeing the authorities right after Bruce Banner's first Hulk transformation. The main reason why Marvel Studios hasn't dived deep into the Hulk's history is because of the studio's shared rights with Universal, which have owned the distribution rights to the character's solo movies for several years. However, The Incredible Hulk and various brief moments throughout the extensive MCU timeline have at least painted a rough picture of the events that led to the Hulk's creation.

Related: Hulk's Movie Rights: Has Marvel Got Them Back From Universal & Is A New MCU Movie On The Way?

In The Incredible Hulk, General Ross reveals that the U.S. Government and the Army had been working on replicating Captain America's Super Soldier serum for decades, to no avail. At some point, Dr. Bruce Banner having obtained several PhDs throughout the years proposes the use of Gamma radiation, though he doesn't know the project's true purpose. Pressured by Ross, Banner uses a special primer and too much Gamma radiation, causing the experiment to fail catastrophically. After transforming into the Hulk for the first time and injuring Betty Ross and her father, Banner transforms back into his human form and escapes.

Related: Incredible Hulk 2: Everything We Know About Ed Norton's Scrapped Plans

Bruce Banner keeps moving through the Midwestern U.S., Canada, and then Alaska, where he tries to shoot himself with a revolver. However, Hulk prevents Banner from hurting himself, so he continues his journey through Russia, Israel, and other countries around the world before ending up in South America. In Brazil, he practices meditation techniques that help control his anger and finds himself a job at a bottling plant. Meanwhile, General Ross reaches out to Stark Industries and SHIELD for help in his search for the Hulk, which leads him to recruit Emil Blonsky.

The Incredible Hulk's plot revolves around Bruce Banner and the Hulk's attempts to defend himself from General Ross while he tries to find a cure with Samuel Sterns, who ends up helping Emil Blonsky turn into Abomination and going through a monstrous transformation himself. During The Incredible Hulk's bittersweet ending, Hulk convinces Ross to let him escape after defeating Abomination, and Bruce Banner finds himself on the run again before Black Widow finds him years later in India. Other MCU scenes and the tie-in comic The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture add a little more detail to these and other events in Hulk's backstory.

Related: Who Is Mr Blue In The Incredible Hulk & The Marvel Villain He Becomes

Hulk's MCU powers are quite similar to his comic book counterpart's. The Gamma radiation used in Bruce Banner's original experiment awakens something deep in Banner's genes, which has a genetic predisposition to his Hulk transformations similar to how Steve Rogers' genes made the Super Soldier serum so effective. Since then, any kind of extreme stimulus such as anger or pain triggers an automatic response in Bruce Banner's body, which begins an irreversible transformation into an increasingly powerful MCU Hulk. This transformation provides the creature with unlimited strength, speed, and endurance, as well as an extremely efficient regenerative healing factor.

Although Bruce Banner is able to control his transformations through meditation and self-reflection, Hulk is a distinct persona with his own personality and desires. The more Hulk stays out, the more he develops a life of his own and causes Bruce Banner to lose control of the monster. Hulk's massive body and strength only use Bruce Banner as a vessel. Hence, they prevent Banner from dying at any cost. Still, Bruce Banner's intellect allows him to merge his body with Hulk's through a series of experiments before the events of Avengers: Endgame, and Hulk's rebellious mind seems to leave as Banner enjoys Smart Hulk's superhuman physiology.

Related: How Powerful Is The MCU's She-Hulk Compared To Smart Hulk?

Hulk's MCU origin is very faithful to the source material. However, there are a few major changes the movies made to the character's backstory. Either by skipping certain parts of Bruce Banner's past or by modifying some of the events, Hulk's MCU story lost at least three key aspects that shaped his comic book origin.

The experiment that leads to Hulk's off-screen creation in the MCU takes Bruce Banner as its victim because the scientist caves in to General Ross' pressure to complete the procedure. Banner sits on the machine voluntarily and assures Betty Ross that nothing will go wrong before he absorbs all the Gamma radiation and turns into the Hulk for the first time. In Marvel Comics, however, Bruce Banner receives a massive dose of Gamma radiation when he jumps in front of science student Rick Jones, who enters the testing site for a Gamma-infused nuclear weapon designed by Bruce Benner himself.

The MCU's only mention of Bruce Banner's father, Brian, was included in a Thor: Ragnarok deleted scene, where Banner tells Thor that he missed his father's death because he was too busy with his Gamma ray experiments. But in the comics, Brian Banner made a huge impact on Bruce Banner and Hulk's journey. Bruce Banner's father abused him physically and killed his mother in front of him, only to return years later and attack him on his mother's grave. Bruce Banner's painful childhood experiences led him to develop another persona in the form of an imaginary friend, who would later materialize in the form of a Gamma monster.

Related: Wait, Is Hulk A Mutant In The MCU?!

Bruce Banner's imaginary friend was a sign of a fracturing psyche that slowly created different personas. The first one, of course, was the Savage Hulk, who embodied Bruce Banner's repressed rage and disrupted childhood innocence. Banner's exposure to Gamma radiation only fueled the creature that already inhabited his mind, giving it a powerful body to use as a weapon. Other Hulk alters, like Joe Fixit, Devil Hulk, and Guilt Hulk represent different aspects of Bruce Banner's psyche, and he has developed them separately as different situations push him to the limit.

In Marvel Comics, Hulk is one of many Gamma mutates, all of whom are linked through a Gamma gene that makes them predisposed to transformations triggered by Gamma energy. However, they're also linked to the One Below All, a timeless entity that dwells in the depths of the Below-Place, a realm where all Gamma mutates arrive through the Green Door portal after death. Hulk and the rest of Marvel's Gamma mutates owe their alters, their magic invulnerability, and their immortality to The One Below All and the Below-Place. Yet, the MCU completely overlooks these mystical aspects in favor of a completely scientific origin story for its version of the Hulk.

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Immortality has been a dream of human beings since the dawn of time. Mankinds fascination with cheating death is reflected in scientific records, mythology, and folklore dating back at least to ancient Egypt.

Now, Ray Kurzweil, a former Google engineer, claims that humans will achieve immortality by 2030 and 86 percent of his 147 predictions have been correct.

Kurzweilspoke with the YouTube channel Adagio, discussing the expansion in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, which he believes will lead to age-reversing nanobots.

These tiny robots will repair damaged cells and tissues that deteriorate as the body ages and make us immune to diseases like cancer.

The predictions that such a feat is achievable by 2030 have been met with excitement and skepticism, as curing all deadly diseases seems far out of reach, the Daily Mail notes.

Kurzweil was hired by Google in 2012 to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing, but he was predicting technological advances long before.

In 1990, he predicted the worlds best chess player would lose to a computer by 2000, and it happened in 1997 when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov.

Kurzweil made another startling prediction in 1999: he said that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have a human brains computing power and storage capacity.

Now the former Google engineer believes technology is set to become so powerful it will help humans live forever, in what is known as the singularity.

Singularity is a theoretical point when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and changes the path of our evolution, LifeBoat reports.

Kurzweil, an author who describes himself as a futurist, predicted that technological singularity would happen by 2045, with Artificial Intelligence passing a valid Turing test in 2029.

This tests a machines ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

He said that machines are already making us more intelligent, and connecting them to our neocortex will help people think more smartly.

Contrary to the fears of some, he believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us.

Were going to get more neocortex, were going to be funnier, were going to be better at music. Were going to be sexier, he said.

Were really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree.

Rather than a vision of the future where machines take over humanity, Kurzweil believes we will create a human-machine synthesis that will make us better.

The concept of nanomachines being inserted into the human body has been in science fiction for decades.

In Star Trek, tiny molecular robots called nanites were used to help repair damaged cells in the body.

More than ten years ago, the US National Science Foundation predicted network-enhanced telepathy sending thoughts over the internet would be practicable by the 2020s.

Ultimately, it will affect everything, Kurzweil said.

Were going to be able to meet the physical needs of all humans. Were going to expand our minds and exemplify these artistic qualities that we value.

Related: Rememory, The AI that Helps Us Talk to the Dead

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Pope Francis waves at visitors gathered in St. Peters Square at the Vatican after praying the Angelus June 18, 2023. The pope published an apostolic letter for the 400th anniversary of the birth of French philosopher Blaise Pascal June 19. Photo: CNS photo/Lola Gomez

Dear Father, I understand that Pope Francis has recently issued a document on Blaise Pascal, speaking of his contribution to the question of faith and reason. What can you tell me about it?

The Popes apostolic letter, Sublimitas et miseria hominis, The grandeur and misery of man, was issued on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the birth of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), the seventeenth-century French mathematician, scientist and philosopher.

The document is filled with quotations from Pascals Penses, his most well-known work of Christian apologetics, compiled and published after his death from his notes and manuscripts.

The pope mentions how, as a Christian, Pascal wishes to speak of Jesus Christ to those who have hastily concluded that there is no solid reason to believe in the truths of Christianity. For his part, he knows from experience that the content of divine revelation is not only not opposed to the demands of reason, but offers the amazing response that no philosophy could ever attain on its own.

This consideration of the relationship between faith and reason is especially important today, when the whole notion of objective truth is contested in a post-modern world.

From childhood, Pascal devoted his life to the pursuit of truth. By the use of reason, he sought its traces in the fields of mathematics, geometry, physics, and philosophy, making remarkable discoveries and attaining great fame even at an early age, the pope writes.

Yet he was not content with those achievements. In a century of great advances in many fields of science, accompanied by a growing spirit of philosophical and religious skepticism, Blaise Pascal proved to be a tireless seeker of truth, a restless spirit, open to ever new and greater horizons.

The pope highlights how Pascal never grew resigned to the fact that some men and women not only do not know Jesus Christ, but disdain, out of laziness or due to their passions, to take the Gospel seriously. If he were alive today, Pascal would have ample reason to lament this sad reality, just as he did four centuries ago.

One of the topics that runs through Pope Francis document, and of Pascals writings, is that of mans search for meaning.

Pascal writes that when the human person does not find true meaning in his existence, he distracts himself with what is around him.

What is it, then, that this longing and this feeling of helplessness cry out to us, if not that man once enjoyed a true happiness, of which there now remains but an empty trace that he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things he lacks what he cannot obtain from those he has, Pascal said.

Yet none of these can provide it, for this infinite abyss cannot be bridged except by an infinite and immutable object, which is God himself.

Pope Francis writes: In the end, both for the age of Pascal as well as for our own, what remains the greatest and most pressing question? It is that of the overall meaning of our destiny, our life and our hope, which is directed to a happiness that we are not forbidden to imagine as eternal, but which God alone can grant.

He goes on to quote from the Penses: Nothing is as important to man as his own state; nothing to him is as fearsome as eternity.

Pascal wrote powerfully on the immortality of the soul and life after death. Once again, Pope Francis quotes from the Penses:

The immortality of the soul is so important to us, something that touches us so deeply, that we need to have lost all feeling to be unconcerned with knowing what is at stake

And that is why, among those who are not convinced about this, I would distinguish clearly between those who make every effort to investigate it, and those who go about their lives without being concerned about it or thinking of it.

Pope Francis comments: We know very well that often we attempt to flee death, or to overcome it, thinking that we can banish the thought of our finite existence or remove its power and dispel fear.

But Christian faith is not a way of exorcising the fear of death; rather, it helps us to face death. Sooner or later, we will all pass through that door The true light that illumines the mystery of death comes from the resurrection of Christ.

This short document makes for very good reading and I highly recommend it to all.

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EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR SATURDAY JULY 8, 2023 Villainous Vilnius NATO Summit Spiritually Preempted by Schiller Institute Conference in Europe

July 7, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)While the July 11-12 Vilnius NATO conference will, in all probability, constitute a self-blinding exercise in arrogance, incompetence and hubriscontinuing what historian Barbara Tuchman called the march of Folly into the jaws of an unthinkable thermonuclear Helltodays Schiller Institute Conference in Europe offers a form of Promethean forethoughtan alternative to that self-destructive path. The world need not be tragic; neither wealth, nor power, nor force of arms, nor murder need triumph over those that believe in the unalienable rights of humanity. Ideas, indeed, when embodied by individuals in touch with the immortality of humanity, are more powerful than weaponsincluding thermonuclear weapons.

The foolish, fatal choices being offered in the upcoming discussion, such as the de-militarization of Russia, putting nuclear weapons into Ukraine, or a joint European Defense Initiative to make Ukraine a top production site for weapons (in a country where people are now protesting the lack of graveyard space), managed by the financial ghouls of BlackRock, are each more insane than the other. In reporting these options to the July 7 weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition, Schiller Institute founder and leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche said, So, I think that if you look at all of these things, it becomes very clear that our task is to make the International Peace Coalition grow, and make it grow also in all the areas which are affected, which is essentially the whole world. It is extremely urgent, in order to get to the point where confrontation is being replaced by cooperation....

Between now and the August 6th 78th anniversary of the nuclear destruction of the city of Hiroshima, a Metanoia must be experienced in the trans-Atlantic worldan uncomfortable, perhaps painful recognition, not of past crimes, but of the fact that today, now, it is only our inaction that will destroy, through thermonuclear folly, all the historical work of humanity, and even the very noosphere in which humanity exists. How do we bring this about? Educator Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) offered this biting exercise in Metanoia. He used the true nature of war, especially religious war, to brutally inform all those who would dare to see themselves as God might see them, of the hypocritical character of their exercise of prayer, and of the truly profane nature of their religious fakery. In honor of Vilnius, we include it here:

The Lords Prayer on the Field of Battle

Let us now, says Erasmus, imagine we hear a soldier among these fighting Christians saying the Lords Prayer.

Our Father, says he.

Oh, hardened wretch! Can you call Him Father, when you are just going to cut your brothers throat?

Hallowed be Thy name.

How can the name of God be more impiously unhallowed, than by mutual bloody murder among you his sons?

Thy kingdom come.

Do you pray for the coming of His kingdom, while you are endeavoring to establish an earthly despotism, by the spilling of the blood of Gods sons and subjects ?

Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

His will in Heaven is for peace, but you are now meditating war.

Dare you say to your Father in Heaven, Give us this day our daily bread, when you are going the next minute to burn your brothers cornfields, and had rather lose the benefits of them yourself than suffer him to enjoy them unmolested?

With what face can you say, Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us, when, so far from forgiving your brother, you are going, with all the haste you can, to murder him in cold blood for an alleged trespass, which, after all, is but imaginary?

Do you presume to deprecate the danger of temptation, who, not without great danger to yourselves, are doing all you can to force your brother into danger?

Do you deserve to be delivered from evil, that is, the evil being by whose spirit you are guided, in contriving the greatest possible evil to your brother?

Yet there are persons who, while they pass over altogether the impiety and unchristian character of war itself, are horrified at a battle being fought on a Sunday!

War, especially total war, is something that the human race must now outgrow, or be killed bypossibly in the next weeks or months. Decades ago, economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche discussed the significance of Erasmus, and his truth-yielding, intelligence-increasing method of biting irony, in a short pamphlet titled: What Really Are The Labor Committees? The Lessons of Erasmus and Franklin. One idea-dense paragraph from that document states:

It should be emphasized that the poor fellow who insists that the basic struggle today is between socialist and capitalist factions thereby exhibits the fact that he is ignorant of both the entirety of modern history, and of present-day realities. The struggle within European and European-related civilization since the A.D. 1266 defeat of the heirs of Frederick Barbarosa, and the death of Alfonso the Wise of Castile in A.D. 1284 has been and remains a life-and-death struggle between humanism and nominalism, a struggle of humanists to save humanity from the hell to which nominalism (for example, empiricism, positivism, linguistics) has repeatedly degraded societies, the hell into whose radioactive embrace modern nominalism (for example, monetarism, neo-Fabianism) is impelling humanity at this juncture.

An example of a world-destroying, radioactive nominalism, that has become very popular and will be repeated all over Vilnius, is the formulation: We are engaged in a war between the democracies and the autocracies. These terms, especially the term democracy, are today wielded as psy-war weapons against hapless citizenries. The United States, for example, was explicitly not founded as a democracy, but as a democratically representative republic. In such a republic, the deliberations of a single individual, in dialogue with colleagues, and even adversaries, have the power to change the direction of the entire government, and under certain circumstances, even humanity.

Indeed, that is exactly what a powerless Lyndon LaRouche did in the 1980s, vis--vis President Ronald Reagan, with his policy of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Citizen mobilization of the Presidency on matters of policy, was also done by Martin Luther King vis--vis JFK/RFK, and was done by Frederick Douglass with Abraham Lincoln 100 years earlier. Conversely, in the above-cited passage on Erasmus, the term humanism is used by LaRouche in its proper meaning, as opposed to its modern, atheistic misuse. It is the opposite of a nominalism. We explain.

St. Joan of Arc, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Charles de Gaulle, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mahatma Gandhi, and the John F. Kennedy of the American University Peace Speech are each very different human beings. They represent different times; they hail from very different origins; they each encountered very different circumstances. What do they have in common? They each show that when the cause of humanity is interiorized by an individual, over and above their individual station in life, they implicitly bend toward the arc of the moral universe, and the arc of the moral universe, in turn, bends toward them. This is a simultaneous action. It appears from the outside as though the designated individual possesses some great, unique personal power, but they are merely, momentarily, for the duration of their mortal existence, what the poet Shelley called the awful Shadow of some unseen Power which floats, though unseen, among us.

This power to access the arcthe directionof the moral universe, is unique to humanity, but is available to all. Accessing it requires that the individual see humanity, not as an aggregate, but as physically primary, as a One. That is what is properly meant by the term humanism. This connection to the moral universe (for which there is another namewhat Vladimir Vernadsky identified by the term nosphere) is accessible to every individual as an unalienable right, but only as that individual regards her/his life, liberty (freedom) and pursuit of Happiness as identical to the life, liberty and Happiness of humanity as a whole. It is as much an unalienable obligation, as it is an unalienable right. The science of Physical Economy is the ongoing, durable realization of this immortal mission for humanity. That was the occupation and specialty of Lyndon LaRouche, a field that is not only unrelated, but opposed to monetarism, that is, the majority of what passes for economics studies in America today, a set of unspeakable practices inimical to the founding of the nation.

Helga Zepp-LaRouches Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture, starting from the standpoint of happily proclaiming that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul; and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, ... proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.

So, rather than the shadow of doom that already slouches over Vilnius before it commences, humanity can choose the narrow but clear path to human progress that the Schiller Institute has outlined for nearly 40 years, and that now, today, in Europe, refutes the trans-Atlantic and world tragedy that need not happen.

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