Reading

Some interesting reading for you to consider: 

• "The biggest picture - No wonder we cannot agree on how globalisation works and whether it’s a good thing. All the stories we have are flawed" (this outlines multiple narratives, and why integrative thinking, rather than trying which narrative is "correct", is so important); 
• "US, Poland, Hungary land on 'backsliding democracies' list"; and
  
• "White supremacist and far right ideology underpin anti-vax movements".
  

Also, a PPS from the post "The Benefits of Stopping":

PS Since writing this post, I have now (in November, 2021) come across a book which clearly shows others were well aware of the issues in Korea and the decision - driven by Gallup Poll numbers, Democrat fears of appearing militarily weak, and the blustering pompousness of the Prancing General (MacArthur) - to cross into North Korea after a few weeks. 

From "The Cold War's  Killing  Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace" by Paul Thomas Chamberlin: 

"But American leaders now faced a critical choice: whether to restore the Thirty-Eighth Parallel as the boundary between North and South Korea and claim a victory for international law, or to press the offensive in a bid to roll back communism in Korea and reunify the peninsula under the leadership of the pro-Western regime in Seoul. Had American political and military leaders chosen the former, Korea would likely be remembered as a triumph for the Western alliance: a moment when the United States used its military power, backed by the legal authority of the United Nations, to halt the advance of communism and restore the ROK. Instead, the Americans chose to turn their gaze to the north." 

and 

"But the real winners were Kim Il-sung and Syngman Rhee. The conflict had helped to consolidate two brutal dictatorships"