Anyone here ever see Kimjongilia, documentary that is done via smuggled footage from an optic surgeon [can't remember the technical term for an eye surgeon] who is a charity-doctor; basically goes into North Korea and treats people with cataracts for free for charity and humanitarian aid? It's remarkable because they are showing how basically every minute of every day of every person's life in N. Korea is spent in ceaseless devotion to Kim Jong Il [now likely the same for his son, Kim Jung Un].
The moment that sent a horrible wave of cold down my spine was how when he was performing the surgeries, he would remove the cataract-coated lens and insert an artificial one, basically 'healing the blind' in a sense. Simple procedure, often not necessary in developed nations since nutrient deficiencies aren't nearly so common as they are in the third world, but in any case, once done with their procedure, none of them thank the surgeon...
Instead they fall to their knees before a portrait of Kim Jong Il and start screeching praises and baying gratitude towards their "Loving Father." Not a single hint of gratitude is ever directed at the doctor. And they all do this. A long line of these people, maybe a hundred...all with the exact. Same. Reaction.
This will be the case when we cure total blindness. The faithful will prostrate themselves in church and thank god for this 'miracle.'
And no credit whatsoever shall come from the faithful to the doctors and scientists who developed this cure. Ultimately, they will attribute all credit to their mythical deity.
The moment that sent a horrible wave of cold down my spine was how when he was performing the surgeries, he would remove the cataract-coated lens and insert an artificial one, basically 'healing the blind' in a sense. Simple procedure, often not necessary in developed nations since nutrient deficiencies aren't nearly so common as they are in the third world, but in any case, once done with their procedure, none of them thank the surgeon...
Instead they fall to their knees before a portrait of Kim Jong Il and start screeching praises and baying gratitude towards their "Loving Father." Not a single hint of gratitude is ever directed at the doctor. And they all do this. A long line of these people, maybe a hundred...all with the exact. Same. Reaction.
This will be the case when we cure total blindness. The faithful will prostrate themselves in church and thank god for this 'miracle.'
And no credit whatsoever shall come from the faithful to the doctors and scientists who developed this cure. Ultimately, they will attribute all credit to their mythical deity.
