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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @freetx 22 Apr \ on: What do North Koreans believe about their country’s system? FiresidePhilosophy
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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