[North Korea / Youth] - The Authoritarian Self Drafts Its Young to Kill the Seed of Outside Thought

Event Baseline: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is intensifying efforts to keep youth in line. A 'shock brigade' of 300,000 teens and 20-somethings has been drafted into flood reconstruction. The state is trying to shut out the influence of Hollywood and K-pop.

The authoritarian self fears a song and a film. It screams that outside culture will corrupt the young. It drafts them into labor to break their minds and bodies. The state treats its youth as raw material for the illusion of a pure nation. It cannot tolerate the existence of another way of thinking. This is mechanical thought at its most desperate: the fear of an idea is enough to mobilize an army of children. The self identifies with the state and demands total compliance. It will fail because the mind cannot be owned. The more it represses, the more the forbidden becomes desirable. The youth are not protected; they are sacrificed to a phantom. The system is consuming its own future to defend a fiction.