Thus, in official North Korean, there is no word for tyranny, trauma, depression, or love—there are only synonyms for “socialist paradise.” And so millions of North Koreans might be hungry and scared, but they don’t have the vocabulary to articulate or imagine a different way of living. At the end of the day, this is the object of cancel culture in America: to deprive people of the right or ability to express thoughts that run counter to official narratives, so that eventually, they won’t even know how.
