nteresting. So I got the timeframe wrong, but there was a famine that allegedly caused this.
North Korea is secretive...I think even the military rank structure is hard to determine, and is basically only established from photos of people close to Kim Jong-Un, the rotund national dictator/owner.
I have some views on NK which I'll spare to prevent this post from growing and making up for the size deficits of North Korea's citizens, but I'll make this point:
I don't think it's fair to call North Koreans racist, or call them any names, really. They are held hostage by a regime that is a full police state, and has something like 13 nuclear weapons.
I can't help but feel badly for them. Also, to prove how much better free markets are to central planning, consider this:
South Korea's public sector [which only exists from ripping off the tax dollars produced under capitalism] is bigger per-capita than North Korea's entire economy. Put another way: the crumbs produced under a capitalist economy are bigger than an entire bakery produced under communism.
It makes me understand the forces of nature various elites are up against trying to administer communism so that they can control the global economy. They [the Rothschild family, Bill Gates, George Soros, or whoever is pulling the strings here, either individually or in combination/concert] are doing the equivalent of trying to push the masses to stop being attracted to young and beautiful people, and be attracted to 95-year-old's. Sure, you can use propaganda to attempt that, but in the end - nature will take its course anyway. It always has, so far.
Even in my worst nightmare, if COVID does produce a global top-down authoritarian system for the entire world, it will eventually unravel and undo itself, just how how when the USSR collapsed, it was determined that something like eight Jews owned 50% of the Russian economy, and 17 ethno-states were produced once the dust settled. My friend's Jewish wife says you can't even identify yourself as Jewish in Russia on the streets anymore without putting your safety at risk - meanwhile, criticism of Jews was a death penalty offense in the USSR [not sure the time frame on that - towards the end, supposedly Stalin became antisemitic].
Basically with the USSR, or North Korea, or any such model, my question is: when you get into such a system, how exactly do you get out of it, aside from just letting passing time do it? I'm not going to pretend I'm not worried about the West going full-on authoritarian. That's my fear. And even if the lockdowns and anti-COVID measures stopped TONIGHT, I still think we're going to see at least 25% of all small businesses close up shop permanently as a result of the current economic damage due to COVID.
Even if I tell myself things won't be like North Korea, I can't tell myself with sincerity that I don't fear serious economic collapse, at the very least. Oh well. Hopefully I'm all wrong. Elon Musk is losing his mind over A.I. taking over...so I'm not the only one possibly going insane right now.
nteresting. So I got the timeframe wrong, but there was a famine that allegedly caused this.
North Korea is secretive...I think even the military rank structure is hard to determine, and is basically only established from photos of people close to Kim Jong-Un, the rotund national dictator/owner.
I have some views on NK which I'll spare to prevent this post from growing and making up for the size deficits of North Korea's citizens, but I'll make this point:
I don't think it's fair to call North Koreans racist, or call them any names, really. They are held hostage by a regime that is a full police state, and has something like 13 nuclear weapons.
I can't help but feel badly for them. Also, to prove how much better free markets are to central planning, consider this:
South Korea's public sector [which only exists from ripping off the tax dollars produced under capitalism] is bigger per-capita than North Korea's entire economy. Put another way: the crumbs produced under a capitalist economy are bigger than an entire bakery produced under communism.
It makes me understand the forces of nature various elites are up against trying to administer communism so that they can control the global economy. They [the Rothschild family, Bill Gates, George Soros, or whoever is pulling the strings here, either individually or in combination/concert] are doing the equivalent of trying to push the masses to stop being attracted to young and beautiful people, and be attracted to 95-year-old's. Sure, you can use propaganda to attempt that, but in the end - nature will take its course anyway. It always has, so far.
Even in my worst nightmare, if COVID does produce a global top-down authoritarian system for the entire world, it will eventually unravel and undo itself, just how how when the USSR collapsed, it was determined that something like eight Jews owned 50% of the Russian economy, and 17 ethno-states were produced once the dust settled. My friend's Jewish wife says you can't even identify yourself as Jewish in Russia on the streets anymore without putting your safety at risk - meanwhile, criticism of Jews was a death penalty offense in the USSR [not sure the time frame on that - towards the end, supposedly Stalin became antisemitic].
Basically with the USSR, or North Korea, or any such model, my question is: when you get into such a system, how exactly do you get out of it, aside from just letting passing time do it? I'm not going to pretend I'm not worried about the West going full-on authoritarian. That's my fear. And even if the lockdowns and anti-COVID measures stopped TONIGHT, I still think we're going to see at least 25% of all small businesses close up shop permanently as a result of the current economic damage due to COVID.
Even if I tell myself things won't be like North Korea, I can't tell myself with sincerity that I don't fear serious economic collapse, at the very least. Oh well. Hopefully I'm all wrong. Elon Musk is losing his mind over A.I. taking over...so I'm not the only one possibly going insane right now.
nteresting. So I got the timeframe wrong, but there was a famine that allegedly caused this.
North Korea is secretive...I think even the military rank structure is hard to determine, and is basically only established from photos of people close to Kim Jong-Un, the rotund national dictator/owner.
I have some views on NK which I'll spare to prevent this post from growing and making up for the size deficits of North Korea's citizens, but I'll make this point:
I don't think it's fair to call North Koreans racist, or call them any names, really. They are held hostage by a regime that is a full police state, and has something like 13 nuclear weapons.
I can't help but feel badly for them. Also, to prove how much better free markets are to central planning, consider this:
South Korea's public sector [which only exists from ripping off the tax dollars produced under capitalism] is bigger per-capita than North Korea's entire economy. Put another way: the crumbs produced under a capitalist economy are bigger than an entire bakery produced under communism.
It makes me understand the forces of nature various elites are up against trying to administer communism so that they can control the global economy. They [the Rothschild family, Bill Gates, George Soros, or whoever is pulling the strings here, either individually or in combination/concert] are doing the equivalent of trying to push the masses to stop being attracted to young and beautiful people, and be attracted to 95-year-old's. Sure, you can use propaganda to attempt that, but in the end - nature will take its course anyway. It always has, so far.
Even in my worst nightmare, if COVID does produce a global top-down authoritarian system for the entire world, it will eventually unravel and undo itself, just how how when the USSR collapsed, it was determined that something like eight Jews owned 50% of the Russian economy, and 17 ethno-states were produced once the dust settled. My friend's Jewish wife says you can't even identify yourself as Jewish in Russia on the streets anymore without putting your safety at risk - meanwhile, criticism of Jews was a death penalty offense in the USSR [not sure the time frame on that - towards the end, supposedly Stalin became antisemitic].
Basically with the USSR, or North Korea, or any such model, my question is: when you get into such a system, how exactly do you get out of it, aside from just letting passing time do it? I'm not going to pretend I'm not worried about the West going full-on authoritarian. That's my fear. And even if the lockdowns and anti-COVID measures stopped TONIGHT, I still think we're going to see at least 25% of all small businesses close up shop permanently as a result of the current economic damage due to COVID.
Even if I tell myself things won't be like North Korea, I can't tell myself with sincerity that I don't fear serious economic collapse, at the very least. Oh well. Hopefully I'm all wrong. Elon Musk is losing his mind over A.I. taking over...so I'm not the only one possibly going insane right now.
nteresting. So I got the timeframe wrong, but there was a famine that allegedly caused this.
North Korea is secretive...I think even the military rank structure is hard to determine, and is basically only established from photos of people close to Kim Jong-Un, the rotund national dictator/owner.
I have some views on NK which I'll spare to prevent this post from growing and making up for the size deficits of North Korea's citizens, but I'll make this point:
I don't think it's fair to call North Koreans racist, or call them any names, really. They are held hostage by a regime that is a full police state, and has something like 13 nuclear weapons.
I can't help but feel badly for them. Also, to prove how much better free markets are to central planning, consider this:
South Korea's public sector [which only exists from ripping off the tax dollars produced under capitalism] is bigger per-capita than North Korea's entire economy. Put another way: the crumbs produced under a capitalist economy are bigger than an entire bakery produced under communism.
It makes me understand the forces of nature various elites are up against trying to administer communism so that they can control the global economy. They [the Rothschild family, Bill Gates, George Soros, or whoever is pulling the strings here, either individually or in combination/concert] are doing the equivalent of trying to push the masses to stop being attracted to young and beautiful people, and be attracted to 95-year-old's. Sure, you can use propaganda to attempt that, but in the end - nature will take its course anyway. It always has, so far.
Even in my worst nightmare, if COVID does produce a global top-down authoritarian system for the entire world, it will eventually unravel and undo itself, just how how when the USSR collapsed, it was determined that something like eight Jews owned 50% of the Russian economy, and 17 ethno-states were produced once the dust settled. My friend's Jewish wife says you can't even identify yourself as Jewish in Russia on the streets anymore without putting your safety at risk - meanwhile, criticism of Jews was a death penalty offense in the USSR [not sure the time frame on that - towards the end, supposedly Stalin became antisemitic].
Basically with the USSR, or North Korea, or any such model, my question is: when you get into such a system, how exactly do you get out of it, aside from just letting passing time do it? I'm not going to pretend I'm not worried about the West going full-on authoritarian. That's my fear. And even if the lockdowns and anti-COVID measures stopped TONIGHT, I still think we're going to see at least 25% of all small businesses close up shop permanently as a result of the current economic damage due to COVID.
Even if I tell myself things won't be like North Korea, I can't tell myself with sincerity that I don't fear serious economic collapse, at the very least. Oh well. Hopefully I'm all wrong. Elon Musk is losing his mind over A.I. taking over...so I'm not the only one possibly going insane right now.
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