I just finished reading this comic book about one animators journey to North Korea. It was a disturbing piece of reading. The art wasn’t the best and there were no photographs included in the book, but the “authorities” at North korea might get most of the blame about these.
The name of the book was PYONGYANG a journey to north korea and this was made by Guy Delisle. The book showed that many of the privileges that we take for granted here, are not around everywhere, even though they should be.
The funny thing about this was how this book made me to question the western society. Even though I think that what we have is right, it is possible that someone else would see great flaws in our system. The people who thought that nothing could be better then in North Korea are fairly similar to the people who think that nothing could be better than in the western world here.
I hope that no one takes this out of the context and starts to blame me on hating the western world. While I think that many of the things that we have are great and I like how open we are in many things, there are still things that could be better.
These do include things like bureaucracy. While this has been a great model in the past, it needs some serious rethinking today. The amount of papers that everyone has to have is just mind boggling. I know that it is just easy to complain about a problem without actually offering a solution for it, but that is just where I’m going to leave this now.