Hi Sirran, thank you for reading and for leaving a thoughtful response. I don't think I can respond without being super long-winded so brace yourself. I think your first point is a mischaracterization of my argument wherein I critiqued Matt Walsh's video about the violence present in Squid Game. I didn't say that people couldn't criticize political systems they've never experienced; I said it's odd to criticize media (i.e. TV, music, books, arts, news etc.) that you've not watched or consumed personally. For example, if I've not watched Star Wars, a criticism of the franchise that extends further than outlining my personal disinterest is baseless. Matt's video essentially said "Squid Game is terrible; it's torture porn" but how would he know that definitively if he's never watched it? Yes, we can imagine and drum up a million and one scenarios about movies and TV shows we've never watched but these invented scenarios rely heavily on prejudgments that often fall short of truth. This argument can be extrapolated to political systems and politics in general but, in this case, learning and educational consumption are our primary means of understanding past experiences. That is to say, although we didn't experience these events in a literal sense, through learning about them, we gain insight into their inner mechanisms. To extrapolate my argument about Matt Walsh to politics, if someone knows absolutely nothing about slavery or the Holocaust...if they've never read a book, or a news article, or seen a documentary or film about the events, then their opinion on these atrocious acts is likely not based on fact and can be quite harmful. It's based on their political worldview and misinformation. Hence we have Holocaust deniers and people who deny the extent and severity of other tragedies. As to your other point, I agree with the idea of internal competition cropping up in communist societies in insidious ways. I even agree that with the inclusion of a few more details, Squid Game could have easily been a referendum on communist society. However, having seen the show, this is not the case., mainly because of: frequent references to the way the capitalism system has negatively affected the players' life, juxtaposition of communist North Korea to one particular player's life after escaping to capitalist South Korea, the fact that the game is created and operated by extra-governmental private interests, its exploration of themes of unionization, worker exploitation, debt, healthcare costs and lack of social welfare etc. I'm going to stop because this is becoming another essay. Thank you so much again for reading and leaving a comment :)