The more I analyze Madara's perspective, the more it makes sense. Let me break this down:
First off, let's talk about how fundamentally messed up the ninja world is. The Uchiha's power system is literally built on trauma (you have to experience severe emotional pain to unlock the Sharingan. That's not even getting into the Mangekyo, which requires watching someone you love die. The system is designed around suffering.)
The "Village System" is Just Institutionalized Violence
Remember the first episodes of Naruto? We literally watched kids being thrown into a forest to potentially die just to become genin. And everyone acted like this was normal. The village system that Hashirama created didn't stop violence. it just monetized it. They turned child soldiers into a business model and called it "progress."
Think about it, every single character who gained a deeper understanding of the system came to the same conclusion:
- Pain/Nagato
- Obito
- Madara
They all saw that the system was fundamentally broken. That's not a coincidence. These were some of the most intelligent characters in the series, and they all independently reached the same conclusion.
"Peace" Through Fear
The peace between villages was literally just a ninja version of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Everyone was too scared to make the first move because they knew it would lead to total war. How is that real peace?
The Infinite Tsukuyomi "Problem"
People criticize Madara's solution, but was it really that different from what they already had? The ninja world was already living in a matrix of sorts (one where they pretended sending kids on assassination missions was somehow morally acceptable because they called them "ninja missions.")
Naruto's "Solution" Wasn't Really a Solution
Naruto's answer to the cycle of hatred was basically "let's all be friends." That's nice and all, but it didn't address any of the systemic issues Madara identified. The fundamental structure of the ninja world remained unchanged.
TL;DR: Madara wasn't wrong in his analysis of the problems he was just willing to propose a radical solution to a system that everyone else was pretending wasn't completely broken.
Why does it feels so relatable....
Hey that's almost the same kind of the world that we live in.
Every country wants to be on the top. Every country tries to kill the ones who it considers as a threat. Every country has a dirty internal politics...
Of course the intensity/depth depends on the place you live in. For some it is a fresh waters with few predators and for others it is a shitty trench. We will never understand it. We are in the marginally better living conditions, can have all the necessities we need and most of the things that we want.
The things always have been balanced on a delicate thread. That is the reason certain organization (can't remember the name at the moment) exists to pass the laws against such extremes and maintain the order.
But what if the member of that organization is biased or holds some grudge.
There is no perfect solution.
There has never been a perfect solution. This delicate thread need to be maintained. It must be held together. Character like Madara will make things worse. We have always been in group and had a landmark since the age of Neanderthal. And every groups back then wanted to be dominating. The things that Madara aspired was good, but for it to succeed we had to rewrite the behavioral patterns that we followed, the patterns that held the things together (objectively in good/bad way) for thousands of years. In this process we will always have an opposing party and more like minded people form their own groups and try to stop it, even if it leads to bloodshed (which is the thing that we wanted to resolve).
The best thing is to accept the thing that we have and enjoy the things that we can get.
PS: ignore the grammatical errors if you find any.