Today's IHT has an
astonishing
article about the North Korea Mass Games.
20,000 schoolchildren filling the side
of one of the world's largest stadiums flip giant cards with such
synchronicity that they form a gigantic screen flashing
picture-quality images and communist slogans. ...
It gave me shudders. I watched again and again, but could see not a
single child making a mistake ... the
children moved as if they were controlled by the enter key in your
computer.
Mass gymnastics foster particularly healthy and strong physiques, a
high degree of organization, discipline and collectivism in
schoolchildren ... The
schoolchildren, conscious that a single slip in their action may spoil
their mass gymnastic performance, make every effort to subordinate all
their thoughts and actions to the collective.
When it comes to making people move like robots, nobody can beat North
Korea.
Someone must have video.