Contrast the image of man fostered by imperial hybrid warfare, in which nature favors the strongest, while the rest are involved in a daily struggle to survive, with the ideal presented in Schiller's poem, "Ode to Joy", set to music by Beethoven. Since his Ninth symphony premiered 200 years ago yesterday, the Schiller-Beethoven collaboration offered a shining example of a better world, in which all men are brothers. In the midst of the present degeneration of culture, in a world overwhelmed by genocidal wars and induced famine, we must fight for the ideal vision of the 9th symphony.
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