33 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 1 Feb \ parent \ on: What will become of North Korea? earth
Thank you for sharing this kep :) very interesting.
The book does a good job of showing how the indoctrination works. Children are raised to believe their leader is near to a deity. That they have stood up to the evil Americans. That the U.S. wants to kill them. They have a system of ratting on each other. They have weekly community gatherings where people repent of their failings at honoring the leader, and working for the cause.
I was just reading about KJU recently and his current dilemma. Will he continue this legacy his family left him with or try to integrate the NK people into modernization while maintaining his image?
Either way it ends in collapse i agree. I dont see a world in which he could start granting more permissions to the people without it inevitably backfiring.
They views people hold seem absurd to us but they are largely sheltered from the outside world and alternate views. I hear that is changing and getting harder though. I think conquest by war would be the worst possible outcome.
Yeah. If he granted access to the internet or some kind of communication with the outside world the truth would spiral into chaos for the north and south. And i think KJU will be quick to try and make it every other country's problem too
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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 1 Feb
It help me understand how people could be programmed when Malice compared the textbooks in NK and how they describe the Dear Leader (that's what they call him) to how we were taught in U.S. schools about "honest Abe" and George Washington and the cherry tree. Or even the mythical view many have of "the founding fathers". If you can see how we are indoctrinated to believe in democracy then I think you should be able to see how an isolated people could be conditioned to support their own prison keepers.
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