Economist Lyndon LaRouche delivered a keynote address to
the conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees. Dec. 29 1986 in Herndon Virginia. Mr. LaRouche gives the usual tour de force during a tumultuous period of increasing global leadership and electoral victories, and hysterical attacks from the Bush/Kissinger group with legal attacks, coordinated media slanders, and the beginning of the FBI raids and political railroading into prison. Above it all was the challenge to the average person "The question of whether the entirety of your life, and your family's life, means anything, or whether it's a pile of garbage in the end, depends upon your ability to face these moral responsibilities now. Sure you've been getting by with this slop for decades, for most of your life; you've been sitting back while our government has been doing stupid things, at home and abroad; you've done nothing. You've sat back, you've minded your own business, you've worried about your career, you've worried about your family, you've worried about what the neighbors think. You've worried about not getting into trouble and look where it got you! It got you right up to the point where you're about to lose everything, not only everything, but you're about to lose any significance to the fact that you might ever have existed! Are you going to continue to behave that way? Are you going to let other people around you continue to behave that way? Are you going to tell them, "You jerk! Wise up like I did - I was a jerk too ! You stop being a jerk!" 

A transcript of the speech is at: http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1986/eirv13n02-19860110/eirv13n02-19860110_028-the_end_of_the_age_of_aquarius-lar.pdf