(August 10, 2023 at 8:52 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: It seems probable to me that the real reason for the hardline clique’s diehard attitude wasn’t any extremist view of what it meant to be Japanese, but a psychological need to push back against profoundly feared loss of the privilege and prestige for the military class within the Japanese society, which needs to be hidden behind a false if strident pretense of advocating for collective honor or good.
In that sense the military cliques have more in common with January 6 gang than meets the eye.
They pretended to worship the emperor as a god, but when their god said "Take up your cross and follow me" they thought he was too woke. So they were exactly like today's MAGA Xians.
