The best part about the kim jong-il funeral is how stunningly antiquated it looks. here is a scene out of our parents’ seventies coming true in 2012. The gray snow and low sky. What a perfect setting for all that dully incredible pageantry, a nation that takes detail so seriously, flowery and bureaucratic even in death After this, what’s the last cold war remnant dictatorship? Belarus? What happened to all these hard facts, these keystones of little league in 1989? Strange what happens to the past.

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