Korea Reunification Hong Kong Style

I call upon the United Nations to retroactively ratify a 99-year lease on the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Then on July 27, 2052 North and South Korea will reunite as Hong Kong did with China in 1997. Britain’s lease on Hong Kong expired after 99 years. A peaceful transition ensued. Politics with North Korea needs a game changer. Tic-tac-toe is a competitive game of Xs and Os. Responding with Xs to Xs is a game changer.

The “all in” lease bet gives ordinary Korean people a stake in the game, a game misplayed by leadership. Consider two sealed chambers, of high and low pressure, separated by a pane of glass. A hammer will turbulently equalize the pressure, but a regulated leak gradually equalizes the pressure.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory of motivation that includes security, social, and esteem needs. These needs are at play in the game with North Korea. The lease gambit amounts to the best strategy. As long as the Korean people have no stake in the game, jokers are wild.

Think of humanity as an organism with a history. Wounds that never healed exist at Cuba, where Columbus started a colony, at Korea, torn between China and Japan, etc., but the Hong Kong wound healed.

Grand Ontological Design

A comparative analysis of paradigms, from ancient through modern sources, reveals a unified, ubiquitous pattern underlying reality. At the core of existence, one elemental set of building blocks appears pervasive, and research indicates that many generations have interpreted and transcribed this primordial structure into transformative, progressive, cultural contexts.

A paradigm, in its own terms, explains or describes aspects of common experience from a unique perspective - like trying to reconstruct a statue from a collection of blurry snapshots. How many photographs, or video segments, are adequate to fully capture a family vacation, a day in the news, the year in review, a lifetime of memories, or a person’s character? Absolute truth may ultimately prove elusive. Increasing detail amounts to overload at the expense of general comprehension. Paradigms help us recognize the universal in the wild.

A collection of pictures taken from various viewpoints increases the recorded detail of a statue, like the opinion of a jury. By comparing and combining multiple paradigms, a universal pattern emerges through reinforced similarities, lending fresh insights into the big picture, into ourselves, and into the fabric of existence. These sources arise from diverse fields of study, and cover disciplines in human nature and in the nature of reality.

As children we learn language. We notice patterns. Regularities get reinforced. As we master patterns of speech, our communication skills grow and our understanding improves. Common ground gets established, and we learn to express our needs with greater eloquence and efficiency.

Paradigms facilitate our ability to communicate novel concepts and develop mutual understanding. The Grand Ontological Design supplies the framework that not only governs the universe but ourselves as well.

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