How to live?

[생명관리 경호실장]

“The wicked live in wicked time” — not merely an accusation, but a description of temporal dislocation, historical dissonance, and a collapse of empathy.

1. Why don’t they feel guilt?
   •   Because they operate within a different temporal system — their own time.
→ “Wicked time” is simply their “normal time.”
   •   They live lives unsynchronized with social time — the time of public ethics, historical justice, and communal suffering.
   •   Therefore, they feel no guilt and show no remorse.

   •   A dictator believes, “I did my best for the country.”
   •   A tycoon says, “I earned my money legally.”
   •   A perpetrator recalls, “That was considered normal back then.”

Within their self-contained temporal narrative, they are innocent.
→ The problem arises when their personal time collides with communal time.

2. The Ethics of Time

“Ethics arises from temporal alignment.”

   •   When my time connects with another’s, guilt becomes possible.
   •   When my memory resonates with communal memory, reflection can occur.
   •   Those who live in isolated time islands lack the ability to feel guilt — they are self-justified and detached.

3. What is ‘Wicked Time’?
   •   A time where others’ pain does not exist
   •   A time where historical responsibility is paused
   •   A time where only personal desires accelerate
   •   A time where memory and questioning are frozen

4. We all, at times, live in ‘Wicked Time’
   •   When overwhelmed by rage or fear
   •   When we erase the presence of others
   •   When we turn away from history

→ In such moments, we too lose our temporal empathy
→ We slip into a pre-ethical time, or even a time of destruction.

5. To recover time is:
   •   To remember the past, stay aware of the present, and envision the future
   •   To imagine the time of others
   •   To reconnect with the shared history of the community

→ That is the beginning of genuine being and self-awareness,
→ The first step to halting wicked time and moving toward a better one — or maybe not. Who knows.