Gaiden 3 - The Dawn is a little visible
My what a shame. That I babbled a little too soon...
But nobody told me beforehand...that this part here would be included.
1. Hak´s vision
Hak´s proposal, his vision is basically this:
1. A direct physical connection between Kouka, Xing, Sei and Kai in the form of streets in order to form trade routes
That sounds a lil bit too easy, right? Kaji has also doubts, if this will work. But Hak - like ever - believes...this guy can be so easily motivated.
2. Hak´s aim is a free circulation of people and goods between the different countries, between Kouka, Xing, Sei and both Kais.
3. And Hak also remarks upon politic alliances between Kouka, Sei and Xing.
Hak has the right idea, but he is basically putting the cart before the horse.
In the past this has really happened and it has -relatively - well worked in practice. If you have a better example, as I unfortunately have to rely on our European History, I am all ears.
2. A historical example of this plan
Well, what can I say, but welcome to the European Union.
This was the way this multilateral political and economic union in Europe was established.
There is a free circulation of goods and people in practice within this structure due to the Schengen agreement .
(And no this does not mean everything is sunshines and rainbows. There are still many problems on every level, still so many economic disparities between the countries, also political difficulties, but the danger for war between the different partners was successfully reduced. A good part of the economies depend upon this peace, after all).
The plan for this collaboration had the French Foreign Minister of that time, named Robert Schuman.
The First and Second World War had so heavily damaged the countries worldwide, but also in Europe, where the cause of the war had erupted. Twice. So Schuman aimed
To prevent further wars in Europe.
18 April 1951 â the European Coal and Steel Community was established. Important resources for war were controlled on a supranational level.
(of course Western Germany had been one of them as it was the cause of the previous two wars. Along with 5 other members).
25 March 1957 â Treaties of Rome
It was a success, so they expanded their collaboration to other economic sectors. The European Economic Community and European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).
19 March 1958 â Birth of the European Parliament
From the economic union...this lead to an establishment of higher political structures. The European Parliament with Schuman as its first elected President.
1 July 1968 â beginning of the Customs Union
The custom duties are removed among the 6 members.
A growing Community â the first new members join
Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom join the European Communities on 1 January 1973, raising the number of member countries to 9. The Arab-Israeli war of October 1973 triggers an energy crisis and economic problems in Europe. As the United Kingdom has already left, you can imagine, not everything is so nice and sweet, but well...
Democracy spreads in Europe with the overthrow of the dictatorships in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Regional policy starts to transfer huge sums of money to create jobs and infrastructure in poorer areas. The first direct elections by citizens of members of the European Parliament take place in 1979.
The changing face of Europe - the collapse of communism
The Polish trade union, Solidarity (SolidarnoĹÄ), and its leader Lech Walesa, become household names following the Gdansk shipyard strikes in the summer of 1980 for workersâ rights and political change. In 1981, Greece becomes the 10th member of the European Communities, and Spain and Portugal follow 5 years later. The end of the decade sees the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe.
A Europe without frontiers
In 1993, the single market is launched with the '4 freedoms' of free movement for people, goods, services and money. The 1990s is also the decade of 2 treaties â the Treaty on European Union (Maastricht Treaty) in 1993 and the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999. Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU in 1995, and a small village in Luxembourg gives its name to the Schengen agreement that will gradually allow people to travel to large parts of the EU without passport checks.
3. From the vision to reality
Yona had vowed to search for a way to peace...well...this could be it.
Economic and political collaboration between the different countries. Maybe even forming supranational structures. A world without borders between the 5 countries.
Hak´s vision is - at least - possible.
Soo Won, too, is working to redirect the King´s power to other people, opening up the established system...Most likely leading to the establishment of democracy in the future at one point.
And this most likely is the Dawn of Yona.
And I could throw up out of anger!!! We won´t see it!!! Damn!!!!
Only one chapter left...
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There is a practical issue in Hakâs proposal that interests me. He suggests that the investors who contribute the most could receive priority in using the roads.
That would not necessarily make the roads privately owned, but it raises some obvious questions: who controls that priority? What exactly does it permit? How long does it last? And how are smaller merchants or ordinary travellers protected from an infrastructure that could become effectively dominated by wealthy investors?
The idea is not impossible, but it is only the beginning of a policy, not its solution.
I would also distinguish between creating trade and reorganising trade that already exists.
The manga has already shown contact between Kouka and Kai, even when that contact took criminal forms such as smuggling and human trafficking. Jae-ha also wears clothing from the Kai Empire, which suggests that goods already circulate between countries. Trade therefore did not suddenly begin when Hak thought of connecting the roads.
What Hak is proposing could still be useful: safer and better-connected routes, more organised legal trade, fewer barriers, employment and perhaps common agreements between several countries. But that would be the expansion and formalisation of existing exchange, not the invention of international commerce.
So yes, perhaps this could become part of a genuine dawn: economic cooperation, safer routes, the movement of people and goods, and a redistribution of political power.
The problem is attributing that dawn specifically to Yona.
Every time I see Yona say, âA member of the royal family like myself cannot exist without the people,â I remember what she chose in the chalice, and whatever confidence I might have had in her disappears.
The same image also says:
âEven if it is hard, by thinking about and working to build a world where there will be no need for conflict in the future, I have found meaning in my life for the first time.â
Very beautiful. Very lofty. Very Saint Yona of Universal Peace.
The slight drawback is that, in the chalice, she chose to remain with the dragon warriors even though the world was described as a hell for the people who, according to her, give purpose to her very existence.
So her principle appears to contain a clause:
âI will build a world without conflict, provided that peace never requires me to surrender what I want to preserve.â
That is peace conditioned upon the emotional comfort of the person proclaiming it.
Although, admittedly, a devastated land may contain very little conflict if nobody has enough strength left to fight. The peace of the graveyard is still peace, I suppose. How efficient.
Yonaâs declaration may be sincere and even beautiful. But it does not demonstrate knowledge, judgment, organisational ability, applied learning, institutional responsibility or any real understanding of what happened in the chalice.
Yona is no longer the Crimson Dragon. She is no longer a reincarnation. Without the dragon warriors, her actual abilities are laid bare.
She has lost the Crimson Dragonâs supernatural authority, the dragonsâ visual and military impact, the bond that drew them towards her and the prophetic allure that captivated the people around her.
What remains now is the person: her education, intelligence, judgment, ability to listen, aptitude for coordination and capacity to learn from mistakes.
Saying that âYona promised to seek a path towards peaceâ does not make every subsequent solution devised by somebody else her achievement. I can promise to end world hunger; if an agronomist develops a miraculous grain tomorrow, it does not automatically become The Dawn of Merrilyshadowymentor. Although I admit that the title has a certain presence.
At present, this remains Hakâs economic vision and Soo-wonâs institutional work. Yona may desire peace and occupy the throne under which these changes occur, but neither the diagnosis nor the practical solutions originate with her.
At most, this is the dawn of Kouka. If we attribute it to particular individuals, it currently resembles the dawn imagined by Hak and politically enabled by Soo-won.
And there is no time left. Only one chapter remains, presumably the wedding, so nothing further will be said about any of this.
The dawn therefore rests upon an economic project formulated by Hak and an institutional reform driven by Soo-won, while Yona thinks very intensely about how much the people matter.
There is a practical issue in Hakâs proposal that interests me. He suggests that the investors who contribute the most could receive priority in using the roads. That would not necessarily make the roads privately owned, but it raises some obvious questions: who controls that priority? What exactly does it permit? How long does it last? And how are smaller merchants or ordinary travellers protected from an infrastructure that could become effectively dominated by wealthy investors? The idea is not impossible, but it is only the beginning of a policy, not its solution.
What Hak is proposing could still be useful: safer and better-connected routes, more organised legal trade, fewer barriers, employment and perhaps common agreements between several countries. But that would be the expansion and formalisation of existing exchange, not the invention of international commerce.
I think, I finally know, where I can put Hak. He is, like I mentioned and like you concluded- again - correctly: a visionary.
I think, he has good ideas. He imagines the "M"stage, but currently we are maybe at the "B"-stage.
My proposition is maybe stage "X". Between all stages there are quite many steps between them. (I just used this stage and example as a way to demonstrate that Hak is NOT only dreaming or that his dreams are not impossible. Currently he just lacks the reason to reach the stages.
And his big, big problem is: He always imagines the way to this point as way too easy.
Kaji - reason - is literally in the picture to remind him and us, that what he is doing is "dreaming". Hak is a big dreamer.
In the positive way, he can find new solutions, visions, even if he is not yet aware how he should come to this point yet. But in the negative way this guy becomes delusional.
These are not correct conclusions yet. They are visions. Ideas.
Besides my intention was to demonstrate that the different ideas of Hak, Yona and Soo Won could work in a certain way together, as the international solution has - literally - happened in the past.
I would also distinguish between creating trade and reorganising trade that already exists. The manga has already shown contact between Kouka and Kai, even when that contact took criminal forms such as smuggling and human trafficking. Jae-ha also wears clothing from the Kai Empire, which suggests that goods already circulate between countries. Trade therefore did not suddenly begin when Hak thought of connecting the roads.
Indeed.
(And Nene is - literally - a merchant. She has connections to South Kai. Lily had knowledge neither Soo Won, nor Yona possesssed, because her mother has likely taken her along with her. Yun ho also is working as a sort of merchant. Kija is becoming a merchant - the white village is opening up to the world. Kaji is a botanist.)
I had to think about it, how Kusanagi may connect Hak´s idea and the next chapter.)
So yes, perhaps this could become part of a genuine dawn: economic cooperation, safer routes, the movement of people and goods, and a redistribution of political power. The problem is attributing that dawn specifically to Yona.
It was always like this. Even within her groupe. It was rarely Yona, who had the idea. Who is the first to run. She is a more passive character.
Yoon knew of the Izra seeds and wished to find them. He also had helped the people of the Fire Tribe, his people, way before Yona made the suggestion to become the "Happy Hungry Bunch".
Still Soo Won sees "flowers in her footsteps".
Kusanagi has even mentioned it in an interview. Without Soo Won pushing her out of the castle, she would have never developed like this. And she would have also not gone out at all. She was happy in her bubble, why bother?
And this we can see in the arc with the dragon gods. Without Zeno leaving her, she would have not even noticed, that "her friends" were merely the dragon gods. She tends to fall easily for illusions. Like Hak.
Here it was Zeno, who acted as "the sword". The one to free her from the illusion.
Every time I see Yona say, âA member of the royal family like myself cannot exist without the people,â I remember what she chose in the chalice, and whatever confidence I might have had in her disappears.
I would like to say: Don´t. But it is hard to persuade other people with the way Yona is. She does "something", and this "something" I wish to demonstrate. And it is not so "obvious". Therefore it is sometimes like searching for the needle in the haystack.
âI will build a world without conflict, provided that peace never requires me to surrender what I want to preserve.â That is peace conditioned upon the emotional comfort of the person proclaiming it. Although, admittedly, a devastated land may contain very little conflict if nobody has enough strength left to fight. The peace of the graveyard is still peace, I suppose. How efficient.
Indeed. Yona is selfish and she is sometimes even pretty passive. Good for her, that the whole world is different from her.
Yona is no longer the Crimson Dragon. She is no longer a reincarnation. Without the dragon warriors, her actual abilities are laid bare. She has lost the Crimson Dragonâs supernatural authority, the dragonsâ visual and military impact, the bond that drew them towards her and the prophetic allure that captivated the people around her. What remains now is the person: her education, intelligence, judgment, ability to listen, aptitude for coordination and capacity to learn from mistakes.
Indeed. Along with the real relationships she built. And she is still learning.
Saying that âYona promised to seek a path towards peaceâ does not make every subsequent solution devised by somebody else her achievement. I can promise to end world hunger; if an agronomist develops a miraculous grain tomorrow, it does not automatically become The Dawn of Merrilyshadowymentor. Although I admit that the title has a certain presence.
Yes, without doubt. Yona got the spotlight and might still retain the spotlight. However, like you said, it is very unfair. Maybe this might change.
At present, this remains Hakâs economic vision and Soo-wonâs institutional work. Yona may desire peace and occupy the throne under which these changes occur, but neither the diagnosis nor the practical solutions originate with her. At most, this is the dawn of Kouka. If we attribute it to particular individuals, it currently resembles the dawn imagined by Hak and politically enabled by Soo-won.
Soo Won and Hak are right now in a good position to make this change. Along with everybody else.
And there is no time left. Only one chapter remains, presumably the wedding, so nothing further will be said about any of this. The dawn therefore rests upon an economic project formulated by Hak and an institutional reform driven by Soo-won, while Yona thinks very intensely about how much the people matter.
I think, I will wait with my judgement this time for sure until the last chapter.
