America and the Rise of Cultural Cannibalism

Jeju Uprising and Massacre

The Jeju uprising, known in South Korea as the Jeju April 3 incident (Korean: 제주 4·3 사건), was an uprising on Jeju Island from April 1948 to May 1949. Residents of Jeju opposed to the division of Korea had protested and had been on a general strike since 1947 against elections scheduled by the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea (UNTCOK) to be held only in the territory controlled by the United States Army Military Government in Korea. The Workers' Party of South Korea (WPSK) and its supporters launched an insurgency in April 1948, attacking the police, and Northwest Youth League members stationed on Jeju mobilized to violently suppress the protests: 166–167 The First Republic of Korea under President Syngman Rhee escalated the suppression of the uprising from August 1948, declaring martial law in November and beginning an "eradication campaign" against rebel forces in the rural areas of Jeju in March 1949, defeating them within two months. Many rebel veterans and suspected sympathizers were later killed upon the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, and the existence of the Jeju uprising was officially censored and repressed in South Korea for several decades: 41 

The Jeju uprising was notable for its extreme violence; between 14,000 and 30,000 people (10 percent of Jeju's population) were killed, and 40,000 fled to Japan: 139, 193  Atrocities and war crimes were committed by both sides, but historians have noted that the methods used by the South Korean government to suppress protesters and rebels were especially cruel, with violence against civilians by pro-government forces contributing to the Yeosu-Suncheon rebellion in South Jeolla during the conflict: 171: 13–14: 186  Some historians and scholars, including military historian Allan R. Millett, regard the Jeju uprising as the true beginning of the Korean War.

In 2006, almost 60 years after the Jeju uprising, the South Korean government apologized for its role in the killings and promised reparations. In 2019, the South Korean police and defense ministry apologized for the first time over the massacres.

From the Zizek video above: 

Did you notice that all, from the early modernity on, ALL leaders, since from modernity on cannot any longer rely unproblematically on some transcended source of authority... i.e.- "I'm a king because God invested in me my Authority" or "because of some higher Destiny my sacred Origins legitimately..." so the logical solution is that leaders, themselves Masters, proclaim themselves servants? Like Friedrich the Great the famous German person, Prussian King, who called himself the servant of State? And there are, of course, different modalities of this position of "serving the servants" from technocracy experts, who say "We just serve Society, we don't have any interest", to religious fundamentalism, to a new figure of obscene Master's clowns like Donald Trump.

The obscene Master is not a direct reaction to the failure of the traditional Master. This figure is a reaction to the fact that expert knowledge, pure technocracy, cannot properly function. It has to be supplemented by the new figure of a Master.

How should we react to this situation? The first, now I will try to be as short as possible, the first version is it's the most tragic version for me it's cynicism. It's that we reluctantly accept the need to return to some form of social Authority but we say "just act as if you accept it, pretend that you accept it play the game... don't accept it seriously."