- 15 Dec 2016 13:07
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I hope this is a joke but in Japan's case it's hard to tell.
Social isolation is a big deal, I remember reading an article recently about how 6 in 10 men in the UK have no "close friends" or something like that. I think I even made a thread about it. A difference is that in the west you are expected to hide this state, which probably afflicts most of us on PoFo as well. I arguably have close friends for example although they aren't close geographically... in Japan this state is treated as a given and some people are (obviously) not even embarrassed about it.
It's basically an extension of the bourgeoisie-ism of course. If you have to dump someone as soon as they aren't at peak profitability for you, real friendship is impossible. Social structures which aren't based upon that kind of "objectivity" are systemically and sometimes militarily quashed by the state. The late form of this circumstance is not "late capitalism into communism" from what we can see (sorry, socialists) but appears to be when you let a bunch of Muslims et al. into the country. They may explicitly want to kill you but you just can't stop praising them for how great they are just because they aren't like you, yet you can't just change and be a little more like them yourself if that's what's good... because you're just too hollow inside now... pretty sad stuff.
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