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Still, his lone voice, though it rang loud and clear, had not changed the world and saved humanity from its insanity that eventually culminated into the most devastating crash in human history. For years his warnings had gone out while the storm clouds were getting darker, even while the terminal phase of the coming crisis was unfolding throughout the world. He had pointed out that the fundamental principles of civilization couldn't be violated forever without consequences. He had also pointed out that resorting to these principles would have re-invigorated the global society economically, had they been applied.
As it was, most people around the world didn't want to hear his words, with the exception of a few people in China, Malaysia, Russia, and South America. The rest on the people were living in a dream world constructed out of the lies presented to them by the major media that had all been owned by the oligarchy, which the oligarchy had used vigorously to defended its rotting system to the bitter end.
For most people the actual reality had not existed in the way they saw things. They had believed in the great recovery fantasy with their whole heart, right to the moment of the crash. The fantasy of lies that had been prominently built up in the media. This fantasy consequently became the prevailing popular opinion. Mostly, however, people shrugged their shoulders when they had heard LaRouche's warnings and calls for caution. They had shrugged their shoulders and gone on merrily about their business as if the collapsing economy they faced was occurring as far away as if it were in a different universe or in a computer game that one can reset with the push on a button and start anew. Of the few that could actually see the black clouds on the horizon, which LaRouche had pointed out, most of them insisted that they were immune to the calamities and were somehow personally prepared to weather the storm. They insisted that they were more intelligent than other people, or more experienced, and so would get through the crisis unharmed.
"Are you immune to the flight of a bullet?" the despised economist had asked them. "Can you live for eight weeks without food and water? Can you survive the winter without fuel?" Most people found it more convenient to put those questions out of their mind, since answering them would have had to be accompanied with a commitment to change the world.
A number of countries, however, did respond to LaRouche's warning to the degree to which they were able to respond. They responded with tightly guarded currency exchange controls and other measures that would enable them to distance themselves from the dollar oriented world-speculative system that had become isolated from reality, into its own world of fantasies. As the result of their heroic response the people of these nations had been spared the worst effects of the world-financial disintegration. Their economies had continued to function in cooperation with other countries that had followed the same path. They had formed, what they called a "survivors club," a club that closed down speculation and isolated itself from the doomed American dollar and the slavery-looting that it facilitated.
Only much later, after the disintegration had reaped a terrible toll, did the unprotected nations, the USA included, remember the words of the despised economist. Grudgingly they dredged up his ideas out of their trash bins in opposition to the boisterous interventions by the ruling oligarchy that had already begun again seizing control again over the world.
The task of rebuilding an economy in the chaos of near global anarchy turned out to be infinitely more difficult, of course, than it would have been had those nations cooperated earlier to conduct an orderly shutdown of the bankrupt speculative feudal monetary system. With anarchy in the streets and no resources to fight back in a world in which money had become of uncertain value, if it was given any value at all, the simplest rebuilding of an economic process posed immense challenges. In the misery of this collapse some elements of the despised man's ideas were finally adopted, both in the USA and abroad. A type of federal bank was set up that replaced the bankrupt private US Federal Reserve System that had strangled the nation with its countless measures of insanity.
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