To be honest, I am respectful toward and fully understand all the activities of present-day heads of states, leaders of various religions, influential scholars, and social luminaries. They are all from the contemporary elite and form a powerful team of world-class leaders. Even their charisma, educational backgrounds, instinctive flair, aspirations, wisdom and insight alone are sufficient to make me overflow with adoration. It is hardly tenable to assert that in plotting to launch the heinous September 11 Attack Osmar Ben Laden was deficient in rational motives of his own, or in some disinterested motive, or in sense of responsibility toward the fate of mankind. Likewise, it is hardly tenable to assert that in the matter of launching a war against Iraq President Bush should be deemed meanly of, inconceivable, absolutely egotistical in favor of his own country, and irresponsible toward the fate of the human race. An eagle would never stoop to clawing at a sparrow simply for demonstrating his valor. A giant would never stoop to wrestling with a dwarf unless the former has lost his mind.
But, just as we have witnessed, it is exactly none other than the cream of the contemporary elite—the cream of contemporary political leaders—who collaborated in bringing about the September 11 Attack to the unlimited sufferings of the American people, Afghan people, and Iraqi people. And up to now none of the cream has ever begun to feel qualms about their modes of thinking or about their courses of action. If we were allowed to hazard a conjecture and thus suppose that it were not Osmar Ben Laden and George W. Bush who were involved in the vortex of the September 11 Attack and that it were one of us and somebody connected with us who were locked in the vortex of a terrorist attack, the horridness of which could be on a par with that of the September 11 Attack, then the sufferings such an terrorist attack would inflict could be much more shocking than those the September 11 Attack has caused. So it is plain that the root cause of man’s tragedy lies in the moral caliber and outlook on the way of life of mankind as a whole, consists in the way man appraises himself, and involves the way man tries to regulate himself socially and politically. In other words what the contemporary human race is in dire need of are (1) a resultant force drawn from political unity of mankind, which can undo animosity between nations, (2) a combined clout generated of the consensus of the world population in administering justice, which is strong enough to stamp out any complication liable to spawn mammoth tragedies, and (3) a world coalition government that is able to nip any appalling tragedy in the bud. The cream of the contemporary elite as referred to above should be reasonably regarded as great national heroes. The irony of things is that it is precisely due to their being great national heroes that they have sired tragedies.
But what is the most ghastly is not so much that most gruesome tragedies have happened as that occurrence of a past tragedy is to act as an accoucheur to assist during the birth of a worse prospective tragedy—or as that while taking pains to lead a nation to bypass a tragedy, statesmen might be just tapping into the danger of a worldwide tragedy. Then what should we do to avert any of suchlike prospective tragedies? This is a question millions upon millions of people are cudgeling their brains for an answer. My answer to this question is all in the book, My Ideals of a World Coalition Government, which you are now reading.
