When you’ve been living in diffuse spectacle for long enough, anything else feels weird. It’s insidious because people can’t necessarily immediately notice what it is that’s missing, but they feel like there’s something missing and in the case of the DPRK that means they believe everything is fake since the public spaces aren’t plastered with ads.
Shit I’ve never thought about it that way but you might be on to something there
When you’ve been living in diffuse spectacle for long enough, anything else feels weird. It’s insidious because people can’t necessarily immediately notice what it is that’s missing, but they feel like there’s something missing and in the case of the DPRK that means they believe everything is fake since the public spaces aren’t plastered with ads.