All right. I'm going to deliver today's column:
Government of Japan decided to make a new system to support youngsters who are called NEET (young people Not in Education, Employment or Training) or staying at home with a variety of reasons by letting professional counselors visit their house. The purpose is to let those youngsters live independently. Japan Media reported it today.
The new system is considered to be a policy of support for the youngsters from 15 to 34 years old.
To put it simply, this system will be far from support but force the youngsters who are struggling in their life to work under hopeless conditions. The policy is clearly hypocritical.
The environments where Japanese youngsters are put currently are quite tough and hopeless. It seems that those youngsters who stay at home without being able to work or called "NEET" are just struggling in many ways observing that society. That is, except for some who are really just lazy (this kind of people exist in any period), this government policy may rob the youngsters of the freedom of choices in their life in order to increase tax instead of avoiding reforming themselves.
No Japanese general citizens can see when they are released from the rule of government officials who are the worst tax eaters.
It may be the time that obedient Japanese general citizens have to learn from farmers in China who are aggressively reveling against their governments.
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6 comments:
hello Shogo
for the earth warming, "solar spots" should not be ignored
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170
and this british video is in the process of a remake with more scientists on a dvd that will be availiable on sept 30th 2007
in the "old Japan", weren't the farmers' rebellions ineffective againts the merchants class?
Marc Chabot
Hi Marc,
How are you doing? Thanks a lot for your comment! I just watched the part of the google video. Thanks for telling me about it. It's interesting, especially, that global warming is used for economic purpose. It seems that global warming is already an industry where so many people are earning. How complicated!
As for the peasants' revolt, yes, as you said, it looked powerless though it may have been effective to show their anger. It happened a lot in Edo period when Tokugawa government controlled whole Japan quite well though it was quite conservative at the same time.
The Tokugawa government controlled the farmers quite well though it was harsh and dirty like current government officials' attitude to general citizens.
History repeats. Past farmers are current salaried worker, general citizens. Basic framework has never changed since that period.
Have a nice day!!
Shogo
P.S. You are really knowledgeable!
hello Shogo
History repeats hitself, indeed.
In the past, the british rulers wrote a book for their group on how to control their population (mostly farmers) by keeping them at starvation level. When historians looked at the bones, in the period when this was in use in england, the average height of the population went down from six feet to five feet. So when i was reading about Japan's history (superficially) and noticed that most of the population was badly treated too, i realized that no matter how radically different it looked on the surface, it was identical at it's core.
About the knowledge part, it's quite simple, i'm just not watching television. I've stop watching "the idiot box" almost ten years ago. I physically got rid of it, i just don't have a television set. When you do get rid of tv, you start noticing how much people depend on tv for their own thought has they keep talking to you about something their saw or heard on tv.
For the first 3 months your memory can still serve to go on with the tv conversation, but then, in the 4th, 5th and 6th month, you have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and as you keep saying "oh, i'm sorry but i don't watch tv at all" or "yes, no joke, i don't have a television, volontarily", really, people don't think, they regurgitate, they only have ideas that came out of the mass media. It's as if they were not capable of thinking independently.
Savoir mal est pire qu'ignorer, that can be translated into: wrong knowledge is worst than ignorance, but really it mean that being brainwashed is worst that be neutral on a subject. Too many times people use a binary vision about human matters, like "to know or to not know", while in fact it's "to know correctly, to be ignorant or to know incorrectly". If a "binary" vision can be used for computers, on human matters it's almost always 3 states. There is so much garbage coming out of tv that just not being brainwashed by it make anybody look knowledgeable.
I'm not "smarter", i'm just not brainwashed, or at least, i'm less brainwashed than most people, and that makes it easier for me to think by myself, and go get the information that i happen to be interested in, at any moment.
Marc
Hi Marc.
Thank you very much for your interesting story again! It was a bit surprising to hear that you god rid of TV physically, but I understand the feeling though I cannot get rid of TV totally. I like comedy (owarai in Japanese) since I was child although I have watched even comedy less and less (the contents are just getting boring).
Brainwashing is a bit deep topic. Just simply speaking, for the government side, it may be called "education" sometimes. I cannot say it is good or bad, but if general citizens are suffering, in most cases, the responsibility may be the government side. Sorry, it's rough opinion. This topic may become a book itself if we seriously dig.
Thank you very much for a philosophy about knowledge, too. I try to be careful about speaking without knowing, but I'm quite imperfect though I want to speak out something^^; I would be grateful for your generosity. I know that I am ignorant in many ways.
Thanks millions!! Have a nice day!!
Shogo
hello Shogo
I presume that owarai is the type of humour seen in the movie "the gift" where Miho Kanno plays the sick wife of a wanna be duo comedian?
Marc
Hi Marc,
How's it going? I think that you know Japanese movies more than I!! I don't watch movies so much. But, I slightly remember a little about the movie, "gift".
Owarai is sort of more general term that includes the duo style comedy called, "manzai".. It also includes situational comedy, talk styles, or many kinds.
Since I was a kid, I was often called, "super comedian"! However, I don't like to talk down others without certain reasons or too dirty jokes so much. I may be more cultured comedian!! hehe,,,
Comedy styles will be also expressing cultures definitely. I sometimes watch stand-up comedy of America on internet. There is quite difference in many ways. That kind of findings is quite interesting for me.
Thanks a lot for coming here a lot and have a nice day!!
Shogo
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