I made it 45 minutes. The irony of North Koreans delineating on propaganda was far too thick for me to carry on any further than the three-quarters of an hour mark. A fascination for how humans have the tendency to lap up like a dog anything that fits their preconceived notions was my only reason for making it as far as I did.

At its core this movie is no better than the thing it presumes to criticize. In fact this is the possibly biggest reel of propaganda I've ever seen. Is that not what propaganda so often is, a bunch of images spliced together to create the mirage of some grave, insidious danger on the horizon? How can they sincerely make the claim that propaganda was first created by the British is 1914? Propaganda has gone hand-in-hand with social hierarchy throughout human history, it is hardly something endemic to the West.

As for the actual contents of the video, my brain undergoes an automatic disconnect whenever themes of devious global overlords pop up, as they unfortunately invariably do in any critical evaluation of the modern sociopolitical world. The thought of high-up men sitting around plotting how to satiate their megalomania at the expense of world destruction is so far out of touch with reality as to not even be laughable.

The truth is that the overwhelming majority of human beings believe that what they are doing is good. This includes the leaders of the Western world, who, I should point out, are not leaders in the dictatorial sense that North Koreans are accustomed to but rather as a myriad of persons with various checks and balances upon each other operating under the adherence to a set of ideas which they genuinely believe to be good and right, no matter how much one may disagree with them personally. An anti-globalist North Korean to a neoconservative is analogous to a humanist to a Nazi.

I somehow don't think I've changed anyone's mind. Ah, oh well.