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coffin_dodger » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:05 pm wrote:

You sound like you're defending North Korea? And what's with the dig at American exceptionalism (not that I don't appreciate it )? Wrong thread methinks.

The many thousands of threads on this board concerning Western shenanigans, at home and abroad, signals a niggling doubt that all may not be as it appears in our demonising media regarding NK. Perhaps they think our ruling elite are shysters and won't play ball with us.

But enough of that crazy-talk.

Yeah, no. Pretty sure North Korea is batshit. Just because western hegemony is crazy doesn't mean North Korea isn't.

DrEvil wrote:Yeah, no. Pretty sure North Korea is batshit. Just because western hegemony is crazy doesn't mean North Korea isn't.

A society that has been constantly told they are exceptional will find outsiders who disagree with them crazy. Because to be exceptional is understood to be perfection. Unless of course, retrospectively, they are found to be wrong, then the old caveat 'with the best intentions' gets wheeled out.

Pedantic, but necessary - the dictionary definition of 'exceptional' -
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/exceptional

1. forming an exception or rare instance; unusual; extraordinary:
2. unusually excellent; superior:
3. Education.
a.being intellectually gifted.
b. being physically or especially mentally disabled to an extent that special schooling is required.

I wonder if the joke is on the American public. 3b.
There's nothing better than hiding in plain sight.

A society that has been constantly told they are exceptional will find outsiders who disagree with them crazy.

Like North Koreans?