Current Events: 6/22/17

These are some observations about the current world and current politics. I know some of them are obvious, some semi-interesting, and some may even be self-serving.

1. Donald Trump:

The Donald as he is known as is not as awful as I thought he was going to be. He has moved away from mass deportations. He is going to allow the Dreamers, the children illegal Mexican immigrants who came to America when when they were young, to stay. His controlling of immigration from Moslem majority countries, I also agree with.

BUT the Donald is also a self-sabotager. His mouth reveals him for the instinct driven, ID satisfying creature that he is. HIs ID often gets the better of his superego as in when one tells a joke that reveals people for what they are, not what they idealize themselves to be.

His battle with the Media is quite interesting which involves much self-mirroring. Donald Trump has learned a lot from the Media. After all, he is a "personality" star and a celebrity in many ways. The Media accuses him of being a "liar." He fights back, pointing out all the "fake news" in the Media. The pointing out of "fake news" has become a scapegoating mechanism for Trump. Trump says that his inauguration coverage was "fake news." In reality, it was the most well-attended and successful inauguration. The fake news of his less than stellar inauguration is actually motived by "liberals" whose motive is to make him look bad. This is the message that the Donald is sending to the alt right. BUT, at the same time, as I pointed out, he self-sabotages himself which does show that he does recognize who he is, not the Media image he has created. So he has an image problem which has not resolved the conflict between the (superego himself) ideal and (id himself) reality. This has been resolved by an out-sized Ego as escapism?

"Fake news" also involves the scapegoating of minorities. There is the fake news of millions of illegal immigrants voting to make the Trump victory seem not as splendid as he thought he was. Here, illegal immigrants are scapegoated for making him look bad. Trump then accuses the Media of planting "fake news" as in the case of the Russian campaign intermeddling scandal. Truthfully, I really don't think that Trump got in a room with a bunch of Russians and say, "Let's hack the US elections." Here, Trump and Kushner are being personally scapegoated.

But the scapegoating goes both ways and it's all fair game. Everything is permissible. All's fair in love and war.

2. Kim Jung Un

The North Korean dictator is the most feared man in the world. It's funny the ways in which we appease him. His wife was a singer of K-POP which in case you don't know is Korean-Pop.

I mostly agree with the historians from Columbia, Cornell, and other colleges on this one. North Korea is not a Communist State. It is a quasi-Fascist state. In The Cleanest Race by B.R. Myers, he states concerning North Koreans, "The Korean people are too pure blooded, and therefore too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader." When one understand this, one begins to understand North Korea and why the acquisition of the Nuclear weapon has been the greatest victory for them.

As these contrarian historians claim, North Korea has been extremely consistent. It has consistently taken advantage of superpowers like Russia, China, United States, and even Britain. It has never really been Communist. As the North Koreans say, "Juche" is their dominant philosophy, the philosophy of self-reliance. The statues and even the catered look of the hereditary dictator conveys "Juche."

Kim Jung Un, according to Wikipedia, had his first girlfriend murdered because she became a porno star. He has his Uncle, who was the main liaison to China, he murdered. His murdered his own half-brother in a terrorist act. The way the American college student was murdered in North Korea, it clearly was a terrorist act. BUT people are afraid of words. Fifteen years of hard labor for stealing a sign. It's the most ridiculous thing I've heard of. It's good that The Donald is restricting travel to North Korea. The Neo-Conservative philosopher, Strauss, says that maybe, sometimes, we should live with a dictatorship, even with all its faults. Of course, I paraphrase. But living with and appeasing are two different things.

 I guess the million dollar question is, "How many North Koreans sincerely believe their "parental leader" anymore?" Some years ago, there was the famine that killed 2-3 million North Koreans and their leader did nothing? What does "Juche" mean if they cannot even provide enough food for their citizens? It's a totalitarian system though. All information is controlled. Then the other million dollar question is, "How many have access to other points of view on their "parental leader" and how many believe in the different views?" 

I saw a video of North Korean women dissidents who were illegally smuggled out of North Korea to China. They have to work in room salons as women prostitutes to make the money to pay the smuggler. They travel down China to various places and try to make their way to South Korea. BUT the funny things is, many of these women go back to North Korea. This is what I mean about RACE in both North and South Korea. IT is a damned Nationalist thing. It cuts both ways. In one sense, Korea needed a strong nationalism to ward off the dominating cultural and political influences from China and Japan. In another sense, Koreans, in general, have a very difficult time acculturating to other countries. Carl Gustav Jung, I believe, did talk about racial aspects of psychology and archetypes. BUT in South Korea, there is individuality. In North Korea, it's almost like a cult.