The Mukden Incident
The Mukden Incident
Truth is just another lie to fabricate
a twist of tongue or a twist of fate?
My, my, the hour grows ever late
My, my, your hour grows over late
Things fall, dice roll as they may
If there's a will, there's a railway
Pretext, subtext in implied subscripted context
It's what I hear - not what you say
It's what I hear - not what you say!
Mukden
Your map of Japan is quite nice
But mine ends in Guangzhou*
The ways to tomorrow are infinite
But your tomorrows are finite and few
It's what I hear - not what you say!
Mukden
*This is a reference to a Bismarck quote that says, in part albeit representatively "Ihre karte ist ja sehr schön, aber meine karte von Afrika liegt in Europa" or "your map of Africa is nice but my map of Africa begins in Europe." The slight reframing is done to make sure it makes sense in context.
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Author's Note-
In my writings, one of the things I try to do is see the world through the mind's eye of someone who did something which, while interesting, is something I either wouldn't want to or couldn't do. The former has many examples - Khronos eating his kids to save himself, Alexander the Great striking down Cleitus to defend a drunken misjudgment of honor, and indeed, today's protagonist. An unnamed figure in the Imperial Japanese military orchestrating an incident in order to force China into the second Sino-Japanese War that would become part of WWII.
Is this glorification? I certainly don't think so, but Ill grant you- in a world where the Bay of Tonkin Incident and the Gliwice Provocation took place, false flags are a hard topic to touch on in a measured way. Especially as the phrase has been co-opted by conspiracy nutcases and used by satirical Pinocchios like Alex Jones in a "guilty until proven innocent" kind of way. That being said, I am of the belief that trying to inhabit that mind-space exploratively can lead to profound insights. If you gaze into the abyss, and the abyss also gazes into you, then perhaps the glimpse will shake you from a fear of its fathoms.