I am amazed at the quality of writing and analysis. Although Aearnur has been bouncing around my email for months, I was not sure what this was, until I read the previous blog post about nuclear war. Personally, I would like to introduce a different take on why the West is deteriorating, and Russia and China are on the rise. I attended a…
I am amazed at the quality of writing and analysis. Although Aearnur has been bouncing around my email for months, I was not sure what this was, until I read the previous blog post about nuclear war. Personally, I would like to introduce a different take on why the West is deteriorating, and Russia and China are on the rise. I attended a speech by Sun Myung Moon in 1978 where he predicted that if the US, with its chosen mission, did not actually act in a manner consistent with its "chosen" status, that the "blessing," as he termed it, would be transferred to another nation. The speech was entitled something like, "The blessing goes to the enemy nation," and in that speech, he reviewed the various geopolitical ups and downs over the past two thousand years. From Israel, to Rome, to Gaul, to Spain, to Britain, to the US, each transfer occurred from one nation to its enemy. His prediction that, if the US "failed," the blessing would be transferred to Russia/China conjointly, explains the odd exceptionalism which the West adheres to. It was indeed supposed to be the exceptional nation that unified the world, but for some reason it failed to fulfill what Moon would call its "portion of responsibility (or at least the leadership did). Thus, it still adheres to its concept of chosen-ness, even though it has lost its qualification to be so, for some reason or other. In the meantime, the entire geopolitical environment has shifted radically, and now we seem to be looking to Russia and China for the solution. Moon was an ardent anti-Communist, and even though he made this "prediction," it seemed that the day when the Western society led by the US would fail was unthinkable. But Moon understood and preached that nobody has a free ticket, nobody or no entity is so "chosen" that they cannot make a mistake and fail to live up to it. A compendium of his teachings and theories are contained in the book "Divine Principle" (1973) or "Exposition of the Divine Principle" (1996), both translations of an earlier work in Korean. The theory spelled out in this work is well-thought out, all terms are carefully defined, and the history of the last two thousand years, including the World Wars, are given an explanation that is quite interesting, and a contrast to people like Meirsheimer, for example, who is an excellent analyst, but explains geopolitical matters as a vying of powers to assert dominance as a way to preserve their existence. What ends up being the "truth" is anyone's guess, but a peek at Moon's well-thought out theories should, in my opinion, be a part of the discussion. The above mentioned works can be found online.
I am amazed at the quality of writing and analysis. Although Aearnur has been bouncing around my email for months, I was not sure what this was, until I read the previous blog post about nuclear war. Personally, I would like to introduce a different take on why the West is deteriorating, and Russia and China are on the rise. I attended a speech by Sun Myung Moon in 1978 where he predicted that if the US, with its chosen mission, did not actually act in a manner consistent with its "chosen" status, that the "blessing," as he termed it, would be transferred to another nation. The speech was entitled something like, "The blessing goes to the enemy nation," and in that speech, he reviewed the various geopolitical ups and downs over the past two thousand years. From Israel, to Rome, to Gaul, to Spain, to Britain, to the US, each transfer occurred from one nation to its enemy. His prediction that, if the US "failed," the blessing would be transferred to Russia/China conjointly, explains the odd exceptionalism which the West adheres to. It was indeed supposed to be the exceptional nation that unified the world, but for some reason it failed to fulfill what Moon would call its "portion of responsibility (or at least the leadership did). Thus, it still adheres to its concept of chosen-ness, even though it has lost its qualification to be so, for some reason or other. In the meantime, the entire geopolitical environment has shifted radically, and now we seem to be looking to Russia and China for the solution. Moon was an ardent anti-Communist, and even though he made this "prediction," it seemed that the day when the Western society led by the US would fail was unthinkable. But Moon understood and preached that nobody has a free ticket, nobody or no entity is so "chosen" that they cannot make a mistake and fail to live up to it. A compendium of his teachings and theories are contained in the book "Divine Principle" (1973) or "Exposition of the Divine Principle" (1996), both translations of an earlier work in Korean. The theory spelled out in this work is well-thought out, all terms are carefully defined, and the history of the last two thousand years, including the World Wars, are given an explanation that is quite interesting, and a contrast to people like Meirsheimer, for example, who is an excellent analyst, but explains geopolitical matters as a vying of powers to assert dominance as a way to preserve their existence. What ends up being the "truth" is anyone's guess, but a peek at Moon's well-thought out theories should, in my opinion, be a part of the discussion. The above mentioned works can be found online.