Imagination and War

However trivial the cause, war would be total:

- From Henry Kissinger's [DIPLOMACY]

 

The reason why the period of the New Cold War began does not require a pedagogical interpretation of various diplomatic or social structural causes. The personality of a leader or group of leaders is a shameless event that started from a minor cause and started weakly but ended with a grand end.

 

Political leaders with totalitarian, far-right or far-left ideologies have no intention of objectively and reasonably solving problems. They just 'pray' that their imagination will be realized in a cool way. You could describe it as "wishful". They have mental problems anyway. Patience in delusions leads to violent political action.

 

When a political leader takes power for a long time or thinks about it closed, he loses his objective and rational perspective and becomes narcissistic. Repeating the illusion and gradually trying to realize the delusion with one's own power. Then, in the end, it collides with reality and leaps into a catastrophe where the leader and the people are sacrificed.

 

North Korea's important national policies at the end of Kim Il-sung's long-term rule and under Kim Jong-il were based on unrealistic imagination. The Mao Zedong administration in China was like that, and the current Xi Jinping administration is like that. Nor can the Putin government of Russia say no. Of course, this is true in the democratic camp. In the democratic camp, delusional figures appear, but the system of the state system only blocks them from being sustainable.

 

Looking at the Korean government these days, I wonder if it is a delusional government born from an internal group called the prosecution. In particular, I think it reduces the possibility of development of Korean society by focusing on domestic conflicts with energy that should be focused on policy-making. Perhaps a little late, it is clear that our future depends on on on the basis of fact thinking and action. Leaders of many countries, especially in diplomatic relations, should avoid unnecessary delusions. As Kissinger said above, the war is an all-out war, no matter how trivial it may have occurred. And the manifestation of madness.