North Korean Air Force Propaganda Video

Sorry, I hhit send by mistake, the tablet I'm on is temperamental, I'll send more in a moment, I follow, as I said, many thanks.

What I'd been trying to say is that the video was obv so totally corny, that one wonders what could possibly cross their minds to even try to pass off such drivel as if would be taken seriously. I of course realize that it was intended for the population there as a whole, most of whom, I'm quite certain, realize that it's obv utter and total nonsense. And, even if some sizable fraction might perhaps delusionally take such garbage at all seriously, the fraction that doesn't must be, I'm quite certàin, fairly appreciable, nonetheless. Let me send this now so I don't lose it, I'll try to send more shortly...I do wish this tablet responded more coherently, at such times...sigh....

Now, also, there's an excellent text, The Stages of Economic Growth, by Walter w rostow, who'd been in the JFK cabinet. It's a noncommunist manifesto, I'd read it as an undergrad, and have always been utterly amazed at how perceptive rostow was when he wrote it. He said, basically, that communism was a disease of normal capitalist development, as is fascism. I've also tried to read as extensively as possible on social Darwinism, and how it gives rise to capitalism, fascism, and communism, as it's main paths of societal evolution. Clearly, that whole society, and also communist China, at least to my mind, are wholly aberrant, effectively in a state of societal psychosis, if you will. All dictatorial States, irrespective of whether they're fascist, or communist, are also similarly aberrant, of course. There's also the concept of an oligarchy, though I'm not entirely sure where that might fit in a social Darwinian context, and or at which end of the societal evolutionary spectrum, I'd be most interested in hearing your thoughts about that aspect, certainly. I recall such cold war propaganda I've seen similar examples of, from both China and Russia. In the case of China, as I've mentioned on here elsewhere, there, communism was masked, as I see it, by Deng xiao Peng, who introduced limited capitalism to pacify the population, and give them a superficial false veneer of freedom, while communism remains firmly in power, which is why they are, as I see it, now, at least, so dangerous, witness their whole effort at power projection, especially naval, incl that Russian carrier they bought and finished recently, and the whole thing about the artificial islands in the South China Sea they've been building. Obv, they're less of sheer loons than the other country, which is, as the video clearly shows, at least to me, lost in some mass societal psychotic Neolithic paeudo-stalinist time warp, if you will. It's like the cultural revolution of Mao, for them, never really ended, at least as I perceive the problem. I hope that was of at least some interest, I'd be most eager, as I'd said, for any further discussion, if you might possibly be interested, whenever convenient, by all means, once again, many thanks.

Capt Daniel Goodman - Interesting points. Let me add that this sort of propaganda works (to a point) for closed societies such as the former USSR and the current North Korea. In theory, these populations have (had) access only to the state-sponsored broadcasts which shapes their thinking. For example, during the cold war I had the opportunity to be in the former USSR. The radios were connected to a wired system to keep the population from receiving broadcasts from outside the USSR. In effect, the theory was the Soviet population didn't know what they didn't know.

Glad was of interest, many thanks.

Yeah, I imagine so, lol, many thanks.