Anyone Else Freaked Out?

I've always wondered what it would be like to live in Orwells 1984. Not for any prolonged amount of time, but just to get the feel for a different sense of things, a new perspective if you will. Hell it might even pull a few heart strings and make me miss home. Of course I cannot transplant myself into Orwells socialistic society, however, there is a place where such a future is a reality. That place is North Korea. I just got done watching a documented trip done by 2 Brooklyn journalists from Vice, a small independent media company, of which Spike Jonze is the creative director. Anyways, these 2 brazenly courageous men armed with a handycam went fearlessly behind the New Age Iron Curtain in hopes of revealing the myth of North Korea to the world. And reveal they did. Never before had I seen such anti-American propaganda from a people so regimented and cold. Control in North Korea is so tight that they literally don't allow cameras with telephoto lenses, recordings of any kind, publications other than the National Paper and they don't even allow music. For example, you couldn't go to North Korea and bring an Ipod. Insane you say? Take this into account, these two journalists, one being Shane Smith (founder of Vice and diehard Bronski Beat fan), under strict supervision of government official guards, got taken to a Tea Shop to show the commercial side of North Korea. The guards woke the journalists up at 6am, placed them on a bus and drove for 2 straight hours pass scenic mountains and dilapidated villages, not once seeing another car on the road. They arrived at the tea house, which turns out to be a huge 4 story fortress complete with 200 rooms and a Tea Vender. This Tea Vender, who's a middle aged Korean woman, stays at this Tea Fortress all year long selling Tea to the tourists. However, these journalists are the first people she has seen in 6 months and as Smith says, it will be another 6 months before she sees another group of tourists. They play a few games of pool, drink some tea and get a tour of the place and then they leave. It's so surreal that nothing normal ever happens in that country. It's like 1950's Russia, a land locked in a time. The departing shot is of the lovely socialist Tea Vender peering out of her Tea Fortress with a look of resilient solidarity. Sacrifice for the Fatherland! Complete allegiance to the Party Leader! Death to the US Imperialists! But don't move, Big Brother is watching.