Death and Incontestable Reality

It matters not if we criticize North Korea's regime as stalinist, which it is, nor as a "deformed workers' state" or "state capitalist", which it might be. The incontrovertible reality though, is that the death of Kim Jong-Il who ruled from 1994 until a few days ago has triggered some of the most incredible revelations of the deep emotional bonds he had forged with the people of North Korea. The photos and videos below reveal a depth of human emotion that shocks those of us in the West who have been brought up with continuous lies about North Korea for three generations now.

Of course we would like to see the social and political process in North Korea to continue to advance toward more genuine and democratic forms of Socialism. And we feel that the depth of emotion that the Korean people are capable of is a definite guarantee that such a progress can continue. Emotional reality in most countries of the West is the total opposite of North Korea. Emotional capacity is deadened, especially when it involves social and political events. We live under a social pathology that is almost completely dominant everywhere, and which is directly related to the fact that people in the West "don't care" about politics. And even among those who care, most are incapable of emotional bonding with others into movements and political organizations that involve a sense of comradeship and true depth of shared feelings - which is what makes people comrades.

Who can imagine ANY of the "glorious leaders" of the Western world passing away and triggering a sorrow such as we see below?


The videos are heart breaking. We have three videos of 2, 3 and 4 minutes each that are astounding.

{click} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3VLcdFnys {click} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmIzQs_pQYc {click} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkVlzdfZiAA

Frozen Hearts can not Attain Freedom

It's true that to this day we do not have a science or an understanding of human culture keen and discerning enough to fathom the depths or the heights of the human psyche.

But we do know one thing. That people who are collectively incapable of emotion, who do not care when their country is under the boot of a dictatorship or a foreign invader, or when their neighbors are being brutalized, who do not care when their economy is being destroyed or when their language, ethnic and cultural identity is being uprooted are both incapable - and undeserving - of freedom.

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

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