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757 sats \ 8 comments \ @Undisciplined 22 Apr FiresidePhilosophy
From The DarkHorse Podcast livestream #220
This is an interesting clip that talks about captive populations and how they perceive their situations. They discuss some of the perverse consequences of being in these situations, including defense mechanisms like developing Stockholm Syndrome and avoiding malinformation (information that's inconvenient for the regime).
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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @freetx 22 Apr
NK to me is always a cautionary tale against those that say "once it gets a little worse people will finally wake up!"
Humans are capable of enduring incredible suffering if the proper social pressures are exerted.
One thing going for us is how incredibly fractured society is....normally for these types of mass control, you need a bedrock of strong social cohesion....this is absent currently in many western countries as we have been atomized into separate contentious groups.
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40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 23 Apr
I have a couple theories about North Korea 🇰🇵 First it is the hermit kingdom because it is geographically isolated. Second Koreans especially in 1950 have been a docile conformist culture. Koreans don’t question.
South Korea is different now but it took about 40 years for a cultural shift driven by world of Warcraft and league of legends and K pop. Plus they hosted the Olympic in 1988 and winter Olympic in 2018.
For the record I have played league of legends to prepare for an interview with riot games. That company is weird. Also I am terrible video game player
My only connection to video games is video game glasses by Gunnar which actually work for non video game reasons for staring at a computer screen
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 23 Apr
That's a good point. My understanding is that East Asian cultures are quite a bit more conformist and that makes them more vulnerable to authoritarianism.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 23 Apr
Some are able to grow up and become less authoritarian over time. But all started authoritarian. No society starts with democracy or self governance with few exceptions.
China South Korea Japan Taiwan Singapore Hong Kong Vietnam which is South Asia
Hong Kong is an exception because of British rule
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 22 Apr
That's a good point. I usually think of it as a cautionary tale for the "It couldn't happen here." or "How bad can it get?" folks.
I think the 400 million privately owned guns also work in our favor.
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 23 Apr
And federalism. States rights even limited or federalism have decelerated the decline of America. Things are getting worse but it also depends on the state. We saw this during covid. Some states were locked down with mask and booster mandates. I refuse to call spike protein shots “vaccines”
We also see this with gun control and squatters rights. The two seem to be related.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 23 Apr
Yes. We were headed down a road of centralization, but covid tyranny really seemed to rekindle the idea of state's rights.
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC 24 Apr
This episode of Rogan with Yeonmi Park was extremely eye opening and although at times difficult to listen to because of the absolute horror stories, in my opinion is an important podcast episode to listen to.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2xO
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