The Challenge of Coming to Ever Deeper Forms of What Is True

In North Korea there are soft versions of the oppressions in Western countries. Do you ever see some of the same instincts or at least maybe temptations toward repression, if to a very different degree perhaps in the West and if so what specifically concerns you? Well I think the challenge of coming to ever deeper forms of what is true is  in a way that is what our whole human life is about.