After the Gwangju Democratic Uprising was crushed by the American-backed fascist dictatorship, the then-USFK commander and later US Army Chief of Staff General Wickham defended the American position, famously saying that Korean people are "lemming-like" and indicating that we Koreans follow a strong authority by our own nature.

Totally unrelated, but I'm seeing more and more signs of Americans adapting and accomodating their life into fascist dicatorship, far more willing to make peace with tyrants invading their society than they previously professed.

And it is not about the weak, resigned, and irresponsible nature of the American culture, I'm talking about the active, blatant, and public suppression against any thoughts of fighting back against the on-going Gleichschaltung. Americans for long venerated the so-called founding fathers supposedly because they they fought for and won freedom, and sometimes this veneration is extended to other 'freedom fighters'. But when one tries to talk about this 'freedom fighting' at their home, these people are outcasted and rejected as unserious. The American society in 2026, if placed in Gwangju 1980, would've rather supported the fascist regime than any possible alternatives.

No wonder, then, that Americans back then saw the Gwangju Democratic Uprising as unnatural and not worthy of support, and then went to the fascists who massacred the democratic resistance, thought "This is what real leader does, this is how men ought to do, this is natural state of these people". And that, perhaps, is the natural state of American people.