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The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstacy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
As long as governments have been imposing misery on their subjects, they’ve sought exterior objects for popular resentment. Orwell saw this sort of hate was only as persistent as the conditions that caused it, and that it easily transferred to any object that could safely be hated.
The “New Year Cooperative Column” stated that (two Koreas) must move toward independent unification. The core element of the North Korean “Minjok independency” is “Achieving the unification by driving out the Americans by the power of our Minjok.
. . . .It seems as though North Korea will attempt for a mass spread of pro-North/ Anti-US sentiment in South Korea. The “New Year Cooperative Column” writes, “Realization of the Great Minjok Unity is the most urgent demand.
Spread of pro-North/anti-US sentiment in South Korea is one of the fundamental strategies North Korea had kept in plan. It is likely that North Korea will invite many more organizations for the purpose of expanding civilian relations and it will push the South Korean government to secure legal activities of the pro-North force.
Of course, misery can just as well be self-imposed, and is often more persistent those who live in societies that are at least initially free. After all, whom can one blame for his own failure in a free society? Plant this psychology in the fertile soil of a culture with a long history of xenophobia and the hate will prosper.
Racism thus becomes a surrogate for a viable poltical and economic program. How else can one explain the inexplicable popularity–in the South, at least–of the world’s most repressive and least efficient system of government? A self-hating fanatic’s politics are seldom swayed by objective fact. A fanatic is incapable of seeing the vacancy of his ideas. He is anchored to the hope of attaining the power and prestige that meritocracy has unjustly denied him.
A prediction: when the regime falls in the North, these feelings among northerners will fade to a certain “natural” rate fairly quickly, especially if the United States comes in and gives substantial reconstruction assistance. Anti-Americanism will probably have a stronger constituency among embittered leftists in the South, who cannot so easily attibute their own misery to the heel of a tyrant.