RE: Ours is a society that rewards sociopathy
September 10, 2019 at 11:39 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 11:40 pm by Belacqua.)
(September 10, 2019 at 10:24 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: It is probably not an exaggeration to say Japanese culture bought its internal aversion to routine confrontation with the price of an inflexible conformity.
It is definitely an exaggeration to say that. I've lived in Japan since 1988, and I know a lot of odd and eccentric people who are doing fine.
Quote:What is more, the measure of character of a society is not only how it treats its in group, but how it treats out groups. In this Japanese culture has had little in its history to brag about even compared to many examples of distastefully xenophobic societies around the world.
That's true. Japan's attempt to subjugate nearby countries and brutally exploit their resources began too late, after Belgium and all the others had already passed through this phase. The US was already inventing new ways to steal resources and impoverish large areas of the globe without direct colonization.
