Others Perception of You and How to Control it.

Kim Jong Il and his publicity machine worked in overdrive to manipulate other peoples perceptions of him, with publicists claiming he invented the hamburger, his birth was foretold by a swallow and that he never needed to defecate or urinate. (a claim later removed from the official North Korean website.

I imagine the North Korean press department agonising over whether the urination and defecation 'fact' is too much.

Jung Su Park: What do you think of that one?


Wang Si Ching: Wee bit far fetched don't you think? that a man never has to piss or shit, I mean...


Jung Su Park: Hmmm... I can kind of see where you're coming from, what about these ones: 'He invented the hamburger and he is the best golfer in the world.'


Wang Si Ching: yeah, use them ones instead, they're more impressive than someone who has never ever done a shit in their entire life.



Couple this with a romantic image of the glorious leader and a perception is created.

...and so it goes on.


Unfortunately, with Kim Jong Il, he had no influence at all over the west with all their decadence and failing democracy and all that jazz; for this reason people don't believe facts like "Kim Jong Il invented the semi-colon because before that there wasn't a way to end a sentence while allowing a clause so that the sentence can continue. He did this in 1980 and Roald Dahl had to go through all Victorian literature and retrospectively add it.



Other problems are that for every iconic looking image of him standing on a mountain, there is couple of guys prepared to make him a main character in a film made of puppets.



or the fact that people on photoshop can do things like this...



Another case in point is Elvis Presley, a man with 50 million fans. Well known for his on stage antics, his astounding ability to make any song sound like an Elvis song just by singing it.



He was also addicted to codeine, Valium, morphine, and Demorol and Amphetamines. His favourite snack was the fools gold loaf: The sandwich consists of a single warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with one jar of creamy peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly, and a pound of bacon. He apparently ate 2 of these a day along with 5 meals and other snacks.



If Kim Jong Il, a man with total power over his nation, has no power over other peoples perception of him after he died, and neither does Elvis Presley then what chance do plebs like us have?

I recently had a death in the family, this person wasn't religious but his immediate family insisted on a christian ceremony. As if this wasn't enough the they began creating strange stories about him finding God not long before he died. My own personal belief is that what he found was not God but just the effects of clinical morphine, which I have been told is quite similar to finding God.



Amen.

The point is, this person will never be truly remembered as he was but instead his memory will be all tied up in candle lighting and prayer, so it starts to become apparent that if you want to be truly remembered the way that you want to be remembered you must kill absolutely everyone you know, so their memory of you will be frozen at the point that you kill them...



This raises its own set of problems, for when you do this you stop being the happy go lucky party animal the bookish intellectual or the warm hearted man/woman who had time for all his/her friends... you become the psychotic killer who walked into his work place with an AK47 killing all your colleagues before turning the gun on yourself... and would you really want to be remembered that way?



David Koresh, a man who set fire to a building full of his devoted followers, something that I think Lady Gaga plans to do to all her twitter followers.

Perhaps its best just to not worry about it.