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Kim Jong-il's 19-hole golf round

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Kim Jong-il allegedly scored a hole-in-one on every hole the first time he played golf, an example of North Korean propaganda overreaching. Žižek imagines the bureaucrat who decided to add 'one' stroke to make it humanly credible.

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“You know how many hits he needed to fill them all? That's the touch.”
“somebody probably said, no, this wouldn't be realistic. let's add one so that it would be more”

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Kim Jong-il allegedly scored a hole-in-one on every hole the first time he played golf, an example of North Korean propaganda overreaching. Žižek imagines the bureaucrat who decided to add 'one' stroke to make it humanly credible., illustrating humanization as ideology,Stalinist absurdity
Kim Jong-il played the first golf round on North Korea's new golf course and scored 19 holes-in-one, not 18, because someone added one to make it 'more realistic.' The joke illustrates the paradox of ideological authenticity: the genius had to appear slightly imperfect to be credible., illustrating ideology,the big Other,totalitarianism