Check out this very interesting documentary on traveling to North Korea. Earlier we were talking about positive vs. negative freedom. North Korea seems an obvious example of negative freedom. But it is interesting to think that its citizens have no understanding our terms of what freedom is. Does that in some sense give them a sort of freedom, freedom through ignorance? I think at least to some degree it does. Even if North Korean citizens don't have their basic needs met they find a perverted freedom in devotion to their leader. (that last sentence is almost a cynical commentary on religion)
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3#
wow this post really sucks, i should read the articles i reference before blogging about them
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