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１９４５年１１月に、私は学童集団疎開という、親・家族から離れた、学校単位・子供と先生だけの山間での共同・集団生活から東京に帰った。東京は、マサに焼け野原で、盛り場には戦災孤児と浮浪者が群れ、上野駅の地下道には死体が転がっていた。それを見た私は、１０歳だった。それが、その２年後には、現実感の薄い、わざとらしい、「緑の丘の赤い屋根」戦災孤児の収容施設のラジオドラマが大人気となっていた。
個人の人生でもそうなのだが、世界史においても、時の流れ・歴史は、揺れ動く・波打つもののようで、時が経てば落ち着くことが多い。しかし、毛沢東・スターリン・ヒットラー・ナチスの時代、あるいは、ヴェトナムと米国の関係は、個人・一人一人にとっては、取り返しのつかない人生を決定した。個人の人生には、３０年４０年の大波で十分に決定的だ。大転換を中年で味わう、３０年目の悲劇もある。
我国では、富国強兵が１６０年間続いた。この、植民地獲得による国家経営という方針は、世界的には４００年間続いた。領土の拡張は、戦争によって行う。戦場は兵士・国民が行う。それには、教育・刷り込み、洗脳が不可欠である。その結果は、狭い世界観、無知の悲劇である。これらは、人為的なもので、作意の結果である。この作意を我が国では、大義・国策と称した。
戦争をしなくても、天災、大不況はしばしば起こる。天災は、文字通り避けがたく、天災であり、大不況は、世界経済の構造的災害で避けがたく発生する。しかし、天災は人災により破壊力を自乗する。世界経済は、収支の合う筈のない軍事費・戦費、そして、目前の利益追求に追われた、エネルギー資源の取り込み合戦を主要な構築構造部材としている。つまり、世界の諸国家はイデオロギーとは無関係に、全く同じ路線・同じ国策という作意を駆使して、個人の不幸、悲惨な人生の山脈を築いている。

The national interest
In the November of 1945, I came back to Tokyo from a deep mountain area where I had been for 15 months with my schoolmates. Tokyo was an open field burned up by the air raids of US bombers. Many orphans and adults without home were drifting in the shack markets. I saw a dead body in the underpass of the Ueno station. I was 10 years old. Then after 2 years, I was 12, a radio drama with a song “Green hills and red roofs” was popular in the streets. It was a story about an orphanage. Thin and no realism drama.
Our life is like waves. The world history is also like waves. Both are series of dramas. The scenes can be dynamic or calm. We are happy, sorry, satisfied or dissatisfied. Every day we face a new situation, often troubles. Generally, the passing time solves troubles and settles them. Often we see those problems turn out to be common ones. However, if a length of a wave were as long as 30 or 40 years then a wave is a whole length of life for private persons. In our history, we had the period of Stalin, Mao Thu Tong and Hitler. The periods were long enough to make the life of common people fatally doomed. The relationship between US and Vietnams definitely troubled, damaged and crashed life of many people. For Japanese, totalitarian military nation continued for 160 years. Japan followed throughout those years the manner of European nations that had continued for 400 years.
The manner to expand the national territory is the warfare. Nations must send their people and fill battlefields with them. Nations prepare their people to be good soldiers through the imprinting and the brainwashing. They are very simple artificial operations. The narrow and limited world filled by the allied and the enemy are the results of this artificial operations. Japanese called this process the national grand design, the Cause.
Even if we live without wars, we must face natural disasters and the worldwide crash of economy. We cannot avoid the natural disasters. The worldwide economic crash happens periodically since it is the result of the economy’s structural disharmony. The natural disaster multiplies its destruction by human errors. The worldwide economic structure has its component such as warfare expenses and energy resource fights that are the main reason of its disharmony. The nations of our world are taking the same course, same route called the national interest. The national interest causes endless long series of mountains of unhappy people with miserable life.
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