A Nation of Idiots?   2008-06-04 12:04

Today, President Lee Myung-Bak remarked at a conference: "We have misjudged the public's level of understanding." According to him, this misjudgment explains why we no longer trust his government. In other words, 2MB believes that there's been a lot of misunderstanding between us and him, due to a difference in the "level of understanding" of each.

Well, then, what is the difference between our level of understanding and his? There are two possibilities. Either our level is too high for the President, or it is too low for him. Either interpretation reveals a lot about the way in which 2MB is determined to treat his people.

If what's being said is that our level is higher than he expected it to be, such that he has been underestimating us, it shows that the President has been thinking of his People as idiots all along. Long live the President of a nation of idiots! It is utterly frightening that our most important political leader, who is supposed to represent our will, has been treating those whose will he represents as a clueless mob. No wonder he thought he could get away with any policy, so long as his lieutenants did a good enough job of misleading and brainwashing the People. On the other hand, if what the President means is that our level of understanding is lower than he expected it to be, that's also a serious problem. Now the President is going to treat us as more idiots than he has already been doing, feeding us with carefully digested (i.e. censored) information. Either way, there's something terribly wrong with Lee Myung-Bak's mentality.

We are the sovereign People of Korea. We know what we're up to. We may not be expert enough to handle all the problems of politics and economics (which is why there are experts among us), but we're not idiots, either. And whatever our "level" is, that is the level at which politicians are supposed to communicate with us. That he has misjudged our "level" is no excuse for what 2MB has been doing to us. He should have been talking to us at our "level" all along.

I sincerely hope that President Lee Myung-Bak come to his senses and recognize us as his Masters. But unfortunately, that is unlikely. So this blog will have to continue.

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