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JosephLuFirstPaper 5 - 13 Apr 2009 - Main.JosephLu
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< | Maybe the people’s psychology, though invisible in a regime after all created by the state for its own purposes, nonetheless exerts a private and powerful force that might one day do more than “keep up” with the state’s idealized personality. But until this happens, politicians and academics’ uncertainty about how the DPRK’s criminal law system works in detail rises to the level of uncertainty discussed in this paper about the psychology of the governed. And perhaps, for now, conversations about North Korean criminal law and North Korean society’s mental personality—while useful—are rightfully constrained, by not just uncertainty, but also the more pressing demand for conversations about the physical conditions of the governed. These conversations, however, would be most constructive outside of the academic parlor and instead, on the ground among those positioned to provide direct material relief for North Koreans. | >
> | Maybe the people’s psychology, though invisible in a regime after all created by the state for its own purposes, nonetheless exerts a private and powerful force that might one day do more than “keep up” with the state’s idealized personality. But until this happens, politicians and academics’ uncertainty about how the DPRK’s criminal law system works in detail rises to the level of uncertainty discussed in this paper about the psychology of the governed. And perhaps, for now, conversations about North Korean criminal law and North Korean society’s mental personality—while useful—are rightfully constrained, by not just uncertainty, but also the more pressing demand for conversations about the physical conditions of the governed. These conversations, however, would be most constructive outside of the academic parlor and, instead, on the ground among those positioned to provide direct material relief for North Koreans. | | |
- I think Robinson is irrelevant here. The disagreement over whether the criminal law is the pathology of the civilization
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| Revision 5 | r5 - 13 Apr 2009 - 19:52:42 - JosephLu |
| Revision 4 | r4 - 13 Apr 2009 - 04:29:30 - JosephLu |
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