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19 February 2021Politics
One only needs to think about it for a moment to realize that the existence of a Nobel Peace Prize, in the absence of a Nobel War Prize, is a lasting anomaly – a state of affairs that is not only irrational and illogical but, frankly, unfair.
It is common knowledge that, more often than not, the jurors who award the Nobel Peace Prize make gross casting errors and shoot each other in the foot with bullets as big as shells. One would waste breath trying to enumerate their blunders or draw up an exhaustive list of what, beyond bad taste, often borders on misconduct. A recent example was brought back to public attention by the Burmese military’s arrest of the 1991 Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi. It turns out that the courageous democrat had a sinister double – the iron-fisted woman who stubbornly refused to keep her distance from the genocidal campaign against the Rohingyas.
May you live in interesting times.
If 2020 had been a Hollywood movie, that would have been the perfect tagline. And the sequel, now underway, could be titled “2021: Extraordinary Times.”
Widely and wrongly believed to be an ancient Chinese curse, the statement “May you live in interesting times” was apparently coined less than a century ago, according to scholars and historians, both Eastern and Western. In 1939, the year World War II began, American attorney Frederic R. Coudert made the first recorded mention of the phase. Speaking at the Academy of Political Science in New York, Coudert quoted from a letter he’d received from British statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: