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Theodore Dalrymple visits Pyongyang Department Store Number 1
- bediger4000 14y agoSuper bizarre account of a surreal situation. The essay even ends with a knockout punch: But this is no joke, and the humiliation it visits upon the people who take part in it, far from being a drawback, is an essential benefit to the power; for slaves who must participate in their own enslavement by signalling to others the happiness of their condition are so humiliated that they are unlikely to rebel.