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I love these brain genius comments because they invite so many followup questions
Like: if they're pretending to be a country, what's the point? If it's illegal to film them, then who are they performing to? It can't be the tourists, because the implication is that it's illegal for them to see this. If it's for the "government" then why in a random street corner? Where is Kim watching it from if this is some weird theatre act for him?
Or: at what point does acting like a country simply become being a country? If everyone is playing some Truman Show style role every single day then at that point they're just indistinguishable from a country
Or: why would a country spend the immense amount of money, time, and effort to put on a kabuki show of acting like a country? Does it not make more sense that they're actually just... Being a country?
Of course
idiots will dismiss all these questions by going "well North Korea is just k u h r a z y like that"
No, I go to work because I live in a free country. I also need to pay for healthcare, rent, and to not starve to death but that is ancillary. They go to work because they are trying very hard to convince us that its not worse over there, but they are not free. If they don't, something worse than being homeless and starving will happen to them, because they must already be homeless and starving. This is all being orchestrated by a complicit and brainwashed populace.
Its all very straightforward if your mind is a penrose triangle like mine