10-16-2024, 06:21 PM
`That image of "we don't (or can't) know comes from a common misapprehension, you know?
We had always assumed, for generations, that we could ever know, without living there.
We assumed that our principle means of knowing, the press and news services, was clear, honest, and unbiased - and beyond - that even if there was bias, it would be checked by academia. But truthfully, the emergence of the North Korean nation coincided with the utter decimation of journalism that held to the aforementioned principle. It was a slow decline, which ends where we are today. Almost nothing reported can be rightly trusted to be free of bias... and that's on both sides, even if we might accept such a thing as North Korean "journalism." Academia has done nothing, over the same last generations, but manifest just how biased they can be...
Like the hint of a blessing, enter the internet, where we find that 'information' is now quantized, metricized, monetized, and weaponized, instead of freely given.
It does seem that North Korea "can't really hide" from anyone but themselves now. I'm only afraid that it is all too easy for the people we trust to get us to the same place...
... and we'll go there waving flags, loyal to the party, and virtue signaling our way towards an abyss.
We had always assumed, for generations, that we could ever know, without living there.
We assumed that our principle means of knowing, the press and news services, was clear, honest, and unbiased - and beyond - that even if there was bias, it would be checked by academia. But truthfully, the emergence of the North Korean nation coincided with the utter decimation of journalism that held to the aforementioned principle. It was a slow decline, which ends where we are today. Almost nothing reported can be rightly trusted to be free of bias... and that's on both sides, even if we might accept such a thing as North Korean "journalism." Academia has done nothing, over the same last generations, but manifest just how biased they can be...
Like the hint of a blessing, enter the internet, where we find that 'information' is now quantized, metricized, monetized, and weaponized, instead of freely given.
It does seem that North Korea "can't really hide" from anyone but themselves now. I'm only afraid that it is all too easy for the people we trust to get us to the same place...
... and we'll go there waving flags, loyal to the party, and virtue signaling our way towards an abyss.
