If one asks what we mean by "the Last Days," we can say it is a time similar to the autumn phase of the year. The leaves begin to fall when autumn comes. Where do leaves fall from when they begin to fall? The leaves on the trunk are the first to go, not the ones on the branches. That means it is the things that belong to the past, to the old era that begin to go first. Their influence dissipates and passes away.

So, as far as our native Korea is concerned, we have come into the time when we 30-year-olds can steer society. After a little while, the time when the folks in their 20s and in their teens can direct society will come too. That's why the university system is an issue now. A long time ago, one had to be in one's 70s or 80s if one wanted to influence or move the nation, but that age changed to the 60s, 50s, 40s, and has come down to the 30s. When the age of influence falls past the 20s and into the teens, guiding the high school students will be an important task. The problem will not be university students. It will be the high school students. It is not the old folks who decide the fate of the world. That's why the old folks are being called the old generation and are being kept pretty much out of the loop. The older professors at the universities are being treated as model cases of the "old generation." A professor has to be in his 30s if he wants to get the students all interested. Strange, isn't it? So, what is all this? It's just the falling of the leaves. As far as the formation of humankind's culture is concerned, the old folks are falling by the wayside. In the old days, the whole neighborhood would jump if an old grandpa said anything, but these days even the neighborhood dogs don't pay attention to what an old granddad says. That's how it has become.

So now, my grandpa's time has gone, my Mom and my Dad's time has gone, my elder brother and sister's time has gone, and now it's my time. What time is it? It is the era of youth. The young generation. What's the biggest headache in Korea? Is it the government, the factional fighting in Parliament? No, it's the universities. After a while it will be the high schools. We've come to the last movement, the last round in the game. The end days are very close.

What's the motive behind the fall? The manifestation of individualism is the beginning point of the fall. Individualism manifesting itself is the starting point of the fall. "Who cares about the world, about whatever?" That's what it is. Next, the development of a base of unrestricted freedom is the prime cause of the fall. "Who cares if God said not to eat that fruit? Who gives a heck about rules and regulations! Who needs that stuff? What do I care about restrictions? Let's do whatever we want!" Is that freedom? Behaving like this and doing whatever one pleases? We can't just do that.

The freer and more liberated the world gets, the more the world needs to stick to the rules and preserve order. The more precise a machine is, the more it moves according to a regular axis within a framework of order based upon the principled relationship of vertical and horizontal. The natural result of following the orderly rule is freedom of movement. This is even more evident when we examine today's scientific culture and social system. This society's structure calls for an unrestricted form. Is it possible that humans require freedom but that society itself doesn't? Because the social institution corresponds to the human condition, if the social institution is formed in the framework of regulation as an organization and a system, then humans have to respond to that systematic institution and be prepared for its conditions. In fact, they have to be able to guarantee and protect it's well-being in the position of subject. If one considers things from this viewpoint, there can be no such thing as unlicensed freedom.

If you are going somewhere, you definitely have to set up a path or road. There needs to be a direction. The philosophy behind modern-day liberalism is just without direction, isn't it? Can there be any direction when one just does whatever one pleases? Or can the mind exist without direction? No.

This kind of thinking is the kind of thinking that leads to destruction. We need to completely wipe out that kind of decadent philosophy. Therefore, the more difficult and refined something is, the more complex is the path taken to it. Do you like complex things, or do you prefer simplistic things? It's a very complex path.

Take a look at the human eye, for example. It looks very simple, but it is really a very complex part of the human body. Even the individual cells of the eye are very complex. They are all very complex, but inasmuch as they all live together as part of the one living organism, they respect each other and cooperate with each other, and don't inflict damage upon one another. So, it just not possible for one to say, "Well, I'm the eye, and I'm great," or, "I don't like you other guys and we hands are the best part, etc."

As regards to the relationship of front and back, left and right, above and below, there is no other way to go other than adjusting to and obeying the defined rules and conditions according to position and class. There is no other way to connect the whole together. (49-190)