Think the unthinkable

Kim Jong-un (second, right) watching a demonstration flight during the opening ceremony of the defence development exhibition 'Self-Defence-2021' in Pyongyang in October 2021. – Korean Central News Agency/AFP

“WE must be able to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.” So spoke the late US Sen. William J. Fulbright, who founded the famous Fulbright scholarships under which so many have been able to study in foreign countries and expand their horizons.

Fulbright has always struck me as an unusually wise man. So I try to follow his advice.