Big Brother is Watching... Your Barber
It looks as if Kim Jong Il would hate my big sideburns.
This is almost entertaining to read; unfortunately, it's also disturbing. Just look at this.
Am I the only one who remembers the passage in 1984 when Winston is chided by the aerobics instructor over the telescreen? I wonder what all of those anti-war, anti-Capitalist, pro-Socialism protestors would say if they actually read the news and found out that Chairman Kim doesn't want to let them have their long, luxurious hippy hair.
And the money shot? This, gentle reader, is absolutely precious.
Now, I could be mistaken, but isn't hair non-living material that's basically dead? And doesn't that mean that hair consumes no nutrition, save for that which is needed for growth? And doesn't that growth happen continually, even if the hair is continually cut?
This is absolutely ludicrous. Entertaining, but ridiculous.
North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.
A campaign exhorting men to get a proper short-back-and-sides has been aired by state-run Pyongyang television.
The series is entitled Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle.
While the campaign has been carried out primarily on television, reports have appeared in North Korean press and radio, urging tidy hairstyles and proper attire.
This is almost entertaining to read; unfortunately, it's also disturbing. Just look at this.
A second, and unprecedented, TV series this winter showed hidden-camera style video of "long-haired" men in various locations throughout Pyongyang.
In a break with North Korean TV's usual approach, the programme gave their names and addresses, and challenged the fashion victims directly over their appearance.
The North Korean media normally reserves the reporting of names of its citizens to exemplary individuals who show high communist virtues.
Am I the only one who remembers the passage in 1984 when Winston is chided by the aerobics instructor over the telescreen? I wonder what all of those anti-war, anti-Capitalist, pro-Socialism protestors would say if they actually read the news and found out that Chairman Kim doesn't want to let them have their long, luxurious hippy hair.
And the money shot? This, gentle reader, is absolutely precious.
It stressed the "negative effects" of long hair on "human intelligence development", noting that long hair "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy.
Men should get a haircut every 15 days, it recommended.
Now, I could be mistaken, but isn't hair non-living material that's basically dead? And doesn't that mean that hair consumes no nutrition, save for that which is needed for growth? And doesn't that growth happen continually, even if the hair is continually cut?
This is absolutely ludicrous. Entertaining, but ridiculous.
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