A Fake High Noon drama

Stay Cool to watch a fake High Noon 2017

It is a summer, We may have to take out again our old electric fans left unused for years to cool our old body. Weather is hot, even going to be hotter this summer because the progressive – progressivism is a euphemism for socialism or communism - environmentalist Mr. Moon ordered to shut down the nuclear plants not worrying electric power shortage in maximum demand during the boiling summer and requiring more limitation of the electricity usage in the poverty stricken neighborhood potentially increasing child diseases and elderly mortality. He decided also to resupply the scarce electric power to N Korea for the restoration of Kaesung industrial park. He lives in his high school dream of a unified socialistic Korea. His Utopian ideal will only lead to another failed nation under which Koreans will suffer even more. This shows his motivation being for ideology not for real people. Meantime, we have to learn how to stay cool physically and intellectually in this unpredictable era. Elderly person like us is recommended rather to stay home lying down in front of a not so cool electric fan. The electric fan is much cheaper to operate than the air con. In those days in my high school, when the electric power was so poor that during the high demand even the electric fan did not turn normally, I contrived to build myself a step up transformer draining the electric power more from my neighborhood into my electric fan. I was a bad boy not practicing the equal distribution in Mr. Moon’s world. I was too young to have ‘equal distribution’ in my brain dictionary. My ingenuity and efforts made me an electrical engineer, who at my peak had built a satellite communications network over the continental US. I still have at our family room the plaque of recognition for the work in 1990. It was 37 years ago. Right after that, I got a job of managing the Koreasat program only to learn the social greed dominated by then Korean political hacks. But I had a few good friends helping me struggling in the dirt. Time flies. I was lucky to have such a good help and grace probably coming from the above. All the water reservoirs are dried up this season. There is not enough water to grow farm products. We need a lot of rainfall. People started to look up heavenward. We are mere mortals.  Be healthy this summer, my friends. Everything will turn out all right.

To stay cool intellectually, we need an intellectual exercise helping mental health. The pop singer Kim Hyunchul is well known for his hit song of the wall clock not missing even one tick. He seemed to hate the wall clock robbing him of younger days of his love and romance. We are slaved to the ticking time. Our lives move according to the time tick as military soldiers move according to the tempo of marching band. Can you guess when ‘time’ had started to tick? Have you ever asked this question seriously? A Christian answer is simple. God created time because God created everything. Stop babbling, some may retort in disdain. I can imagine who he is, but am not sure of it. But I know he believes in God by heart. He has a good heart. Okay, I am a Christian, Please bear with me. So you are arguing that time has been running forever from the time immemorial until today and will continue forever again. Aha, the present time is only real to live. The past time is gone and the future is yet to come. Then the present time is the end of the real time.  Yesterday was one real day before the end time, the day before yesterday being two real days before the end time. The day before a million years ago was a real day existed counting back one by one million times, not skipping a day, from the end time.  If time had started infinite years ago, there would have been infinite number of real not skippable days between the start time and today. Here is the contradiction in the infinity. The infinity is the uncountable number. The day infinite years ago can never reach today by count. In conclusion, time started counting sometime in the countable past. Q.E.D   So now we agree that we live in an edge of the time moving forward one day after another. Christians are aware of the end time story about wars and the rumors of war killing people with horrendous weapons, false leaders, and false prophets appearing in the Bible over and over again.  The end time may not be distant future but today. Remember we live on the edge of time, i.e. today. I know not whether this is the right interpretation for sure; I am only a lay. Christians believe the Bible is the Word of God. It is fair to say the end time story of the Bible is an indication, though imprecise literally, of what is happening now in the world in spiritual and intellectual sense.

Mr. Moon is kind of unfortunate President elected in the end time. Xi, Putin, Kim Jong-un, Trump, and Kwanghwamoon rioters would not let him have a single quiet sleep at night. He has succeeded in mobilizing the pop culture worshiping his Utopian dream. But he sold a fantasy land realizable in no way. His followers will soon realize their stupidity of being duped and will not exactly work for him but for themselves.  Worse of all, people say the presidency seems beyond his pay grade. This is an American term meaning he should be placed to a lower paying job. There will be a High Noon confrontation between him and Mr. Trump coming soon in Washington. We all know Gary Cooper of the confrontational western cowboy movie.  It is his moment to show his case while the world watches including China, Russia, and Japan. This could be an opportunity for him to show himself as a grownup man representing the Land of the Morning Calm. But Mr. Moon is not Gary Cooper but a stuttering novice revolutionist. There are some people siding with him. Many cowardly European socialist leaders hiding behind him want to see him making a case with wishful thinking. They like to see Mr. Trump fail regardless. They want to make a little dent in the capitalism by sacrificing the poor fellow in order to keep the collapsing socialism a day longer. So it is a fair game for Mr. Moon. Mr. Moon has got this position by deceiving Korean people but is deceived by the western socialism. This is all about the little fake High Noon. I sincerely hope he had a case. But I am not on his side because the unified socialistic Korea is only a boy’s fantasy. (June 25,2017, KYP)