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Linear thinking

The linear thinking man, therefore, doesn’t believe in the adage that every road leads to Rome.

In short, the linear thinking man cannot think outside the box. Thinking outside the box is, on the other hand, for people with lateral thinking or circular thinking.

Thinking outside the box? Lateral thinking? And circular thinking?

Well, yeah, very well, but that will be for another day, or two.

Now, examples of linear thinking in the media:

1. President Eisenhower introduced the domino theory back in the 1950’s when America was a linear thinking government, IMO. Some people might argue that it still is a one dimensional, simplistic thinking government. Foreign policy is complex, and leaders know it, but their bandwidth is narrow as is their time in office is short, so they simplify. Let’s play dominoes.

In the illustration posted with this story, China is the first to fall. Fall to what? It fell to communism, a dread form of acute socialism that swallows individual freedom and civil liberties. There is truth that the China form of government, one that is managing the largest population in the world, is massively bureaucratic that represses democratic freedom. At the end of WWII, Mao Tse Tung installed a new form of government and it took.

Fear was that the powerful China would move to its neighbors. Indeed, the USA was occupying Japan at the end of WWII. China feared the USA would occupy Southeast Asia. China had an allied relationship with their neighbor, the USSR and leveraged to fight the Americans against South Korea, a fight to control the Korean Peninsula.