Let’s be a Dictator!
(An analysis of the basic views of a Totalitarian style government)
Not many areas in the world today operate as a totalitarian type of government. The term totalitarian is defined as a system of government that is dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. Obviously now it is extremely easy to see that the United States is not one of these dictator-type governments. However, there are a few places around the world that are ruled with a totalitarianism type of government. North Korea operates under a totalitarianism government, they rule with a total fear type of idea like Hannah Arendt describes, and the basic views of North Korean government is to keep complete power.
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North Korea is ran with a total fear type of mind set. It is said that the citizens of North Korea are too afraid to leave the country for fear of their lives. One source said, “North Koreans are presented as brainwashed marching automatons, while their country is viewed as a large prison camp from which they long to escape.1 Both notions may be accurate, but the motivation of North Koreans for staying in or leaving their country is more complex than these images typically portray. Recent scholarship has challenged simplistic representations of North Koreans as desperate, brainwashed victims.” (Fahy). This just goes to show that the ruling of North Korea is based on fear. There are really bad things that happen when someone uses purely fear to keep in power, and Hannah Arendt describes that in her book very well. One source said after reading her book, (Donoghue)“One of the most disturbing implications in Hannah Arendt's books is that there are facts, situations, events with which the human imagination cannot cope” It is easy to see that North Korea is almost the exact same as what Hannah Describes in her …show more content…
“The Dear Leader is a workaholic. Kim Jong Il sleeps four hours a night, or if he works through the night, as he sometimes does, he sleeps four hours a day….His micromanaging style is less Caligula, with whom he has often been compared, and more Jimmy Carter on an authoritarian tear.” (Maass). Obviously, Kim Jong Il is completely obsessed with everything running smoothly and keeping an eye on everyone so that nobody can try and overthrow him. Some sources say that the place is absolutely fake and kind of just insane. “There really is no place quite like it, a surreal time capsule largely devoid of mobile phones, cars and electric light; a land presided over by the world's first hereditary Communist, Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il, whose deceased father remains Eternal President of the place I like to call the 'Land of Eternal Happiness'.”
(An analysis of the basic views of a Totalitarian style government)
Not many areas in the world today operate as a totalitarian type of government. The term totalitarian is defined as a system of government that is dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. Obviously now it is extremely easy to see that the United States is not one of these dictator-type governments. However, there are a few places around the world that are ruled with a totalitarianism type of government. North Korea operates under a totalitarianism government, they rule with a total fear type of idea like Hannah Arendt describes, and the basic views of North Korean government is to keep complete power.
One area of the world that operates …show more content…
North Korea is ran with a total fear type of mind set. It is said that the citizens of North Korea are too afraid to leave the country for fear of their lives. One source said, “North Koreans are presented as brainwashed marching automatons, while their country is viewed as a large prison camp from which they long to escape.1 Both notions may be accurate, but the motivation of North Koreans for staying in or leaving their country is more complex than these images typically portray. Recent scholarship has challenged simplistic representations of North Koreans as desperate, brainwashed victims.” (Fahy). This just goes to show that the ruling of North Korea is based on fear. There are really bad things that happen when someone uses purely fear to keep in power, and Hannah Arendt describes that in her book very well. One source said after reading her book, (Donoghue)“One of the most disturbing implications in Hannah Arendt's books is that there are facts, situations, events with which the human imagination cannot cope” It is easy to see that North Korea is almost the exact same as what Hannah Describes in her …show more content…
“The Dear Leader is a workaholic. Kim Jong Il sleeps four hours a night, or if he works through the night, as he sometimes does, he sleeps four hours a day….His micromanaging style is less Caligula, with whom he has often been compared, and more Jimmy Carter on an authoritarian tear.” (Maass). Obviously, Kim Jong Il is completely obsessed with everything running smoothly and keeping an eye on everyone so that nobody can try and overthrow him. Some sources say that the place is absolutely fake and kind of just insane. “There really is no place quite like it, a surreal time capsule largely devoid of mobile phones, cars and electric light; a land presided over by the world's first hereditary Communist, Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il, whose deceased father remains Eternal President of the place I like to call the 'Land of Eternal Happiness'.”