ST Alpha - "The North Korea story, "it's like The Truman Show, at country scale." I have a better analogy." (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 163

The North Korea story, "it's like The Truman Show, at country scale." I have a better analogy.

Posted by Mop (190 lbs) (aka rburriel) Jan 23 '13, 10:14

I read Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Without getting much into the plot, the protagonist is from an inhabited moon where the more communal types (i.e. communists) of a planet were exiled. The bulk of the novel is backstory on this protagonist before he takes an exceptionally rare trip to visit the home planet where the capitalists live.

Le Guin is implying that the communal people on the moon are good and the materialistic people on the planet are bad. But all I can think throughout the entire story is "Those poor people on the moon. If they knew what life was like down on the planet, they'd rise up and demand repatriation."

This is an exact analogy to North Korea. These people don't know what it's like in the outside world and therefore think they have to make due with what they've got, because there's nothing better.

Mop

Responses:

Worst. First. Ever. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 23, 10:14 1
- [deleted]

Post a message top

The North Korea story, "it's like The Truman Show, at country scale." I have a better analogy.

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.