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By Muhammad Natsir Tahar
First of all, every nation must be proud because it is
recorded in state statistics. State is an abstract noun. It lives in our
imagination. It is formed from fantasy and wishful thinking, a giant house that
is inhabited together.
The state is built on pillars of anxiety and
speeches. Many states were conceived in the womb of war and colonization, then
born when the war was over. Every state is born, its mother dies. The state was
raised by his father, the state was raised with masculinity, with spartan masculinity
to cock weapons at any time.
After the state was formed, the anxiety continued.
Too much to pay for a suspicion. So each country strengthens its army and
weapons of war, no matter how much has been spent. Homo homini lupus est,_
man is a wolf to his fellow_ an eternal word from Plautus. If we think about
it, we should be ashamed to be human.
Between one nation and another, there is an
imaginary partition that we construct from the same threads of myth, geneology
or tragedy at the same time. We recite dictions such as nationalism,
patriotism, esprit de corps and so on. As a series
of anxiety. Because we don’t believe in an inverter: Homo Homini Socius,
which means humans are friends to each other.
Plautus lived in 195 BC, at that time a wolf in
human form found his killing field. But Homo Homini Socius was
created by Thomas Hobbes, a British philosopher of the Victorian century.
With an increasingly enlightened mind, we should
be more on the side of Hobbes. Or we are too reminiscent of Napoleon Bonaparte,
an ambitious French military and political leader, who introduced esprit
de corps, as a war strategy. Strategy to kill humans.
So it can be ascertained, the country with the
most complete and most expensive military weapons is the country that is the
most anxious, as well as the most ambitious. Even so afraid, developed
countries build a cunning myth about the placement of nuclear weapons, they
feel more mature, so they are more entitled to keep the weapon. More mature and
more afraid. Meanwhile, making Kim Jong-un no crazier than now, becomes an
additional task that needs to be carried out.
For the domain between nations, we are actually
building a false ethic for a long time, to deal with the neo-wolves.
Nationalism, patriotism, esprit de corps,
inevitably become a moral foundation and a code of ethics. When threats
(militarily) are not facts, suspicion is the basis.
Many countries are bluffing by demonstrating their
weapons of war, when in fact they are very afraid of war. The super traumatic
World Wars I and II have taught, no one is safe when the war is over. If not
destroyed, then bankrupt. We are not stupid enough to repeat this hellish
tragedy.
Fear with the anxiety of each country about its
territorial existence, is more always in favor of arms-selling capitalism than
the original purpose for which the weapons were used. Even wars are only
triggered by the will of the rulers of the country, not the will of the
conscience of the people. But it is the people who are the bait for the
bullets. Rulers prefer to hide behind tables, rather than descend to the
battlefield.
Politics of war as its nature will not recognize a
code of ethics. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt disliked Stalin and
communism. But while fighting against Hitler they tricked themselves into
having to work with the Soviet Union, none other than the great masters of
global communism.
It’s out of state. How about in your own country,
as fellow children of the nation. Homo Homini Socius,
humans are friends with each other, if they enter into the domain of power
politics, they are crossed out. In the struggle for power that is free of
ethical codes, democracy is faked. Being outside the circle of power never
makes them happy, so they are constantly looking for ways to make power last,
and others feel the need to seize it.
Democracy teaches that leaders are officers of the
people, but rulers wrap themselves in the myth of the state, so that they
become as strong as monarchs. Feudal people will find it difficult to
distinguish which state must be obeyed and which politicians are in the state.
So defending politicians who are in the power elite is the same as defending
the country. And vice versa. ~MNT
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