"we are at an interesting junction in history"
and indeed, it is quaintly interesting. i said that statement on the subject line to adam early this morning when i caught him online. he was talking about how we're bound to all be obliterated soon enough (this talk brought on by my mention of the US population hitting the 300B mark).
i'm glad it's NDC and i have to matterload. this means i'm coerced to keep up with the world, and i quite frankly don't mind.
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it's shameless but i'm more than willing to admit that i used to have rather uneducated expectations as regards North Korea. it's funny, considering i own an arsenal of The Economist issues covering the country expansively, and i've seen from korean channels theater performances of talented little North Korean children.
however, the new video released of North Korea's nukes (look ma! i really do have nukes!) surprised me when the view panned out and revealed a High Modernist city (please refer to James Scott's work on post-structuralism)-- box~y state structures and expanses of paved roads. i was slightly surprised, because the North Korea i'd grown accustomed to is the portion of it near the border, particularly the wide river that separates North Korea from Russia and the dilapidated wires and walls reminiscent of post-war eastern europe depictions in movies. the stories of KJI making his constituents care for ostriches (to sell ostrich eggs), and factories in the middle of nowhere have always made me think that North Korea was a wide expanse of farmland filled with malnourished corn.
shameless, really. this more educated view i attribute to the eye on North Korea in the news.
the best one i saw so far was the special on CNN regarding the racial purity that North Korea prides itself with; how this would make any negotiations without the US and other countries losing their nuclear arms worthless, and how regardless of aid flowing in from the South the North will never see them as equals. (the clearest indication of this is the North Korean sychronized spectacles, which is also a tribute to their communist and high modernist ideals).
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i feel it in my fingers... i feel it in my toes...
thank you for tonight's talk. we can work this out, trust me. ♥
i'm glad it's NDC and i have to matterload. this means i'm coerced to keep up with the world, and i quite frankly don't mind.
* * *
it's shameless but i'm more than willing to admit that i used to have rather uneducated expectations as regards North Korea. it's funny, considering i own an arsenal of The Economist issues covering the country expansively, and i've seen from korean channels theater performances of talented little North Korean children.
however, the new video released of North Korea's nukes (look ma! i really do have nukes!) surprised me when the view panned out and revealed a High Modernist city (please refer to James Scott's work on post-structuralism)-- box~y state structures and expanses of paved roads. i was slightly surprised, because the North Korea i'd grown accustomed to is the portion of it near the border, particularly the wide river that separates North Korea from Russia and the dilapidated wires and walls reminiscent of post-war eastern europe depictions in movies. the stories of KJI making his constituents care for ostriches (to sell ostrich eggs), and factories in the middle of nowhere have always made me think that North Korea was a wide expanse of farmland filled with malnourished corn.
shameless, really. this more educated view i attribute to the eye on North Korea in the news.
the best one i saw so far was the special on CNN regarding the racial purity that North Korea prides itself with; how this would make any negotiations without the US and other countries losing their nuclear arms worthless, and how regardless of aid flowing in from the South the North will never see them as equals. (the clearest indication of this is the North Korean sychronized spectacles, which is also a tribute to their communist and high modernist ideals).
* * *
i feel it in my fingers... i feel it in my toes...
thank you for tonight's talk. we can work this out, trust me. ♥