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2023년 12월 27일 수요일

Tell me your dream, please. / Double restraint theory

I remember what I saw in the handwriting of a Korean bar exam passer. One examinee studied hard and passed the bar exam with the determination to help the weak. After passing the 1st and 2nd exams, something happened in the last interview. An interviewer, a middle-aged lawyer, asked the examinee why he took the bar exam. The examinee answered, 'I will study hard and become a good judge who helps the weak' as he had thought so far. Then, the interviewer said, "So we haven't been good judges who help the weak until now?" and got angry. The examinee was confused about what went wrong and trembled with fear of rejection until the date the successful candidate was announced. On the other hand, my senior at school said that he took the test 'to increase his identity' in the same situation, and the interviewer treated him with a comfortable smile.

 

In the above example, I felt the stubbornness of a legal professional fixed in their inner circle, and I felt a watershed that was distorted because a young man's dream did not overcome reality. The successful candidate who took the test for the sake of rising status later heard that he actually became a lawyer who made a lot of money by any means. I don't know if the senior who became a rich lawyer achieved his dream of rising status, and the successful candidate who wanted to help the weak lived to help the weak.

 

In fact, a lawyer who intends to help the weak may have taken a related path, while a lawyer who took the opposite path may be guiding Korea to ruin. Political legal professionals who have too much authority over utility and practicality will continue to operate today by wrapping up their rhetoric that does not contain political philosophy, utility and practicality in a package called legitimacy. And they may be sweeping the future of the Korean Peninsula.

 

To tackle the nation's low birthrate, the Korean government announced yesterday that it would lend 500 million won (464,940 U.S. dollars) in low interest if it has one child. Such a policy may work, but it is interpreted as an act of failing to understand Korea's low birthrate and not seeing the people as more than economic animals. Actually, Korea has fallen into the low birthrate problem because it foreshadowed a society without a future and created a society without dreams. To sum up, the biggest problem is a loss of confidence in the state and society. In a society where ideologies and religions without substance become the philosophy of the state and society, and where vertical disparities exist, it is natural that people cannot dream of the future when even political leaders do strange things. As mentioned several times, people will commit suicide in different ways.

 

Bateson, an American anthropologist, explains this phenomenon well through [the theory of double restraint].

 

Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), an anthropologist who studied schizophrenia, says that various paradoxes in everyday life make humans fall into schizophrenia. For example, if a parent orders a young child to "do it on his own because you are not a child anymore," and soon orders "You are a child, so it is impossible to do it alone," a child who cannot handle the paradox between the two orders will develop schizophrenia. Schizophrenia patients include delusional types that deviate from reality, breakthrough (破瓜) types that accept everything as it is, and tension (緊張) types that focus only on their inner selves, which Bateson understands as a strategy to escape from double restraint.


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First of all, the philosophy of pursuing practical things in South Korea and North Korea should be the political philosophy. South Korean and North Korean politicians should not do grotesque behavior. Only then can people tell their dreams.

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