Re: Demonizing North Korea

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> heikki sipilä <sipila@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 04/24/00 04:17AM >
Finally, in modern capitalist culture, we even live and enjoy the cult of
personality *without* persons. It seems to me that it is much bizarre to
kowtow to Nike's Swoosh, MacDonald's Golden Arch, etc. (which are nothing
but signs of monopoly power) than to bow before Kim Il Sung (who, whatever
criticisms one may have of him, actually led a revolutionary movement which
kicked Japanese & American asses a bit). In North Korea, it is human
persons who have become objects of respect & admiration; in America &
elsewhere, we worship dollar signs. Am I the only one who thinks the latter
is more pathetic than the former?

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CB: The U.S. has advanced commodity fetishism, the generalized reversal of 
subject and
object. People are treated as things and Things as people

I agree the latter is more pathetic, and dangerous, than the former.

CB