DOOMSDAY ROLE MODELS
Germany's Hitler,
Japan's Meiji and China's Sun Yat Sen all have
something in common. They are role models for the modern leaders
of the West, Japan, and China, respectively. They dedicated their
lives to shape a modern world that would be so prosperous that it would
last a thousand years. Well, one hundred years have passed.
For all those, who followed their footsteps faithfully, have done
well. Lives are so good that history became a record of their
happy trampling over the suffering majority on Earth. Why should
there be any reason to
rechart humanity's course when we only live a fraction of the remaining
nine hundred years in this musical-chairs game to doomsday?
Hitler's road to fame was the initiation of the missile and nuke
races. But his big success and even bigger failure of building
the
military industrial complex, have been his real heritage to
mankind.
The deepest imprint that he has made in the modern lives of the West
and the Westernized is the mode of the allout political campaign by
whatever technological and criminal means available. His
exploitation of racial and ethnic divide by the mob majority has been
the favorite among many notorious politicians. The current
strategy of the West to openly condemn him, while
secretively model after him, has paved, not only for West itself but
also the
rest of the
unsuspecting world, an autobahn to doomsday.
Meiji promoted Japanese from being prejudiced as midget pirates to
being
hated as a militarized octopus by the rest of Asia. He chartered
Japan's course away from American gun boats all the way back
around to the taste of America's first-of-its-kind, freshly made
nuclear weapons of
mass destruction. He represents now the only memory all modern
Japanese leaders
really have about Japan. They could do nothing but continue to
tread the
path he laid out of this
vicious cycle of zombie existence till the weapons become big enough to
end it all.
Sun's legacy is his martyrdom due to an opportune early death.
Otherwise he was but an upgraded version of the earlier Christian
rebellion leader of Tai Pin Ten Kwo and would have been succeeded by
such real live "father of democracy" as T.H.Lee. His ingeneous
upgrade
included mob'lization based on ethnic divide between the Han majority
and the Manchu ruling minority, while hiding his Christian faith from
the Chinese, but lefted wide open for support from the American
imperialists. He rode the tidal wave of westernization started in
Asia by Meiji and became its icon in China, especially for the
oversea and westernized local Chinese. He marketed western
superiority of capitalism to the public and started to implement it
privately
within the family circle. He was able to simultaneously achieve public
fame and amass a private, but well camouflaged and
coming-a-few-years-too-late,
fortune.
Had he not been
dead, he would be exactly be the kind that would not have survived
Mao. This Sun rising from the West was not going to set quietly,
as if the job cut out for Mao to expel Western imperialism was not hard
enough.
Then, with his widow's decision to stay with the mainstream
communist Chineses and the obsession of the China's present leadership
to woo
back Taiwan's Nationalist Party that he found, his vision of
westernization was left intact to freely penetrate the consciences
of the Chinese people. This is the intricate story of how
the
force of Westernization and the struggle to stay Chinese has played out
in the last century. How it's going to end is in our hands.
So is the fate of the world.
It's always tough to acknowledge the dark sides of things that once
thought were beyond reproach. But be thankful that we are only
dealing with mortals, not God.