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elizabeth  ·  1620 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Nick Cave on ideology

This is some wishy-washy garbage that reminds me of a conversation I had in the kitchen a couple days ago about North Kora with a guy who just came back from South Korea. He was saying how people in SK claim people in NK are all brainwashed - while they are obviously also brainwashed. When I called NK terrible, he responded that he finds it "interesting" instead, and how maybe they live a simpler and happier life out there. And that we can't really judge from afar. Maybe their non-consumerist way of living had some merits. How everything is already decided for them so they are not burdened with the freedom of choice that we have. And are not corrupted by our terrible western values of consumption.

It felt just like this centrist defence of the Far Right, where by trying to take a "balanced" view on the issue, people are afraid to condemn truly terrible things like genocide or totalitarian rule. Like we can never have enough perspective, and if we quality some political ideology as "bad" it just means we're not seing the issue complexly enough.

I don't think i'm physically able to roll my eyes as far as I would like to.