>>508790982I swear talking with autisms is like pulling teeth because everything is so black and white to them and they simply cannot comprehend nuance etc. It is delusional and sick to equate rural with poverty.
Look there may be aspects of North Korea that are awful if even just 1/2 of the western view of the place is true. Under the boot of a truly onerous iron first of a government with zero opportunity or means to live prosperously. That can be hell. But you know what is also hell? Pressing everyone into rootless soulless concrete anthills in shoeboxes and deluding 95% of the population it is "god tier" kek. I dont know what life is like for some Nork living on a rice paddy in a shack somewhere with no electricity and little food to eat... but they probably at least dont have to become a little grease stain getting ground to powder in the concrete hellscape. They at least have the mercy of seeing the stars.
I see beauty as having healthy happy people with basics that they need, plenty of freedom, space, food, electricity, etc. modest homes, but they haven't let themselves become totally oversocialized or departed from the beauty and joys of natural creation. There is a nuance to it, but seeing some bright city lights and a concrete repulses me regardless of whete it is.