The following is an edited transcript of the opening remarks delivered by Jacques Cheminade on December 13 during Panel 4, “A Human Future for Youth: A Beethoven-Driven Renaissance of Classical Culture,” of the Schiller Institute conference, “The World After the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason.” Mr. Cheminade is the founder and President of the Solidarité et Progrès political party in France. Subheads have been added. Schiller Institute Jacques Cheminade If you consider all that has been said during this Conference, the most human thing to ask ourselves is why is there not a mass movement of unified resistance against what is happening to us, a movement based on reason, on the unity of the good, the just, the beautiful, and the truthful. In our western world there are protests, but most of the time on single issues, inspired by anger, resentment, and victim rhetoric, not by