Loneliness in Japan documentary

[Husseinisdoingfine]

 

[Tudo]

1 hour ago, Knowledge Hoarder said:

What a sad country man. Imagine paying a random girl to act like your girlfriend without benefits lmao. Just to hold your hand and have some conversation. Crazy.

Or marrying some A.I. just because it sends you lovey dovey messages lol. That's pure desperation.

Capitalism and their crazy work ethic has really fucked Japan over. It's insane.

Yeah, Japan is so weird. I hope they fix this loneliness problem.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

 

[puporing]

@Husseinisdoingfine I would describe the dominant theme in these countries as being highly dissociated and people tend to relate based on superficiality/"what looks good" over "what's real". There's dissociation everywhere but more so in Japan, Korea, and China. 

Vancouver has a similar kind of feeling to how Japan seems to be... 

Also we need an UBI .

Edited March 16, 2022 by puporing

[Raze]

Everyone saying Japan is weird, this is exactly the direction most first world countries are going including the USA.

[puporing]

53 minutes ago, Raze said:

Everyone saying Japan is weird, this is exactly the direction most first world countries are going including the USA.

Not sure, perhaps the difference is less for a man, but for a woman, I find that there is a world of difference. I couldn't realistically be an individual in an Asian country/culture and not be ridiculously feminized to survive, or maybe expect to be sexually harrassed as an exchange for employment (which in Japan there don't seem to exist many jobs for women except for sex work). Not to put down sex work just pointing out the limited options and ways of being.

Edited March 16, 2022 by puporing

[Lyubov]

10 hours ago, Raze said:

Everyone saying Japan is weird, this is exactly the direction most first world countries are going including the USA.

It’s happening in the USA already. Numbers are growing when it comes to both men and women reporting stuff like this. It’s worse for men too because I think men tend be less social and there are more men who don’t naturally have social skills. It’s kinda sad to see. People take for granted traditional gender role structures and devotion. Dating is becoming increasingly more difficult in the USA. It’s just so expensive to live there and find people who highly value dating and relationships like this over their job and material wealth. I wonder what a new stage of society and dating will look like where it integrates more gender equality but also accounts for the needs of humans who greatly need to mate and have a partner. It’s hardwired into most of us. 

[Fleetinglife]

22 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

 

Maybe most succinctly a large part of the problem was explained and prognosticated almost five-six decades earlier by Japanese author and intellectual Yukio Mishima - though he meant the new Japanese generations and youth as he saw them in the 1960s and 1970s - and analyzed the problems that he saw in them - that may have just have been exacerbated in the following generations that grew up into a postmodern hyper capitalistic environment with still unresolved, undigested residual leftovers and subconscious programming from the previous interpretations and approach to traditional structures still remaining as an unhealthily and not fully integrated stage Blue ledger in most of the superficially by Orange very developed society but with still large portions of remaining Blue residuum in the norms and collective psyche.

In other words healthy orange can't really flourish widespread in society because there is still a large aspect of a residuum of not fully integrated and transcended and fully grasped and understood toxic Blue and its limitations in its still overwhelming influence in the management and organization of social structures and human relationships.

Note: Mishima was a Japanese ultranationalist, conservative and reactionary in philosophical and political terms in opposition to the majority liberal (in their language and term sense - leaning and meaning more towards a ''liberal-conservative'' in contrast to majority Western societies) ruling society that Japan was at the time and still largely is today even more now then ever before.

I think quotes from the samurai manuscript Hagakure and this here thought stream that he is having about the analysis of the current trends of the youth in Japan at 6:31 in the video also provide part of the solution to the puzzle of why a large portion of the contemporary youth in Japan and elsewhere in the most developed or semi-developed post-industrial world suffer from the same problems that they do that was illuminated in the video essay that you posted above:

''The youth today, in contrast, may seek out thrills, and though they are not exactly unafraid of death, there's is not the tense existence in which death becomes the precondition of life. Therefore, in my own work, I naturally consider any sort of ''weariness of life'', or the idea that one can live for one's own sake alone, to be patently vulgar. Human life is mysterious that way. Human beings are not strong enough to live and die only for themselves. That's because we have ideals. We only act for the sake of something. We soon tire of only living for ourselves. It also necessarily follows that we also need to die for something.''

Edited March 16, 2022 by Fleetinglife

[Lyubov]

1 hour ago, A_v_E said:

@Lyubov gender equality is a green meme scam.

I prefer gender harmony/respect

If woman and man were the same we would never have created instinctively in all society the idea of natural gender. 

But also work and capitalism as it is. Toxic a lot.

Don't be fooled by wanting to be on the side of good moral by using low resolution frame as equality of gender. Think meta systemic..

It's non sense. If woman act like toxic capitalism slave male' this isn't liberation or equality. It's dissonance society..

Unfortunately women now kinda have to do the “boss bitch” thing  and play the capitalist game cause no guy is gonna just take care of them. It’s getting more and more rare where a guy just needs a woman and marries her and she is a house wife and he wins the bread. Girls making cash off being pretty have basically turned it into a career too. In capitalist society we lose the collective and people rely on each other less. Women can’t expect a man to just take care of them. They have to work too and unfortunately this can really hurt their deeper desires for family. Granted I’m just talking generally here. Every woman is different and some like being workers in capitalist society. I’ve dated women who found themselves in quite a conundrum where they were heavily focused on their job/life purpose but also had a big fear that they wouldn’t be able to start a family cause their 30s were right around the corner. This sets in much earlier for women in less capitalist societies and later in the USA. 

Edited March 16, 2022 by Lyubov