Japan is a modern society with deep premodern roots, America is a postmodern society (which is itself a modernist ideology where the grand narrative is that there are no grand narratives and the objective truth is that there are no objective truths) with modern roots. Once you understand this about the two countries, everything makes a lot more sense.
Both are flawed ways of looking at the world, but modernism still believes that there's a societal telos, postmodernism believes that any direction is inherently evil (except direction away from a societal telos)
For America, events such as the nuclear bombing of Japan may have won them the war, but those same events were existential attacks on the grand American project. Events such as World War 1 broke the western narrative of peace and progress, and events such as the holocaust held up a mirror for the west to see what their totalizing ideology looked like, and they didn't like what they saw.
Both totalizing ideologies -- modernism's totalization towards "progress" and telos, and postmodernism's totalization away from such things, are effectively suicidal in the long run. If you have a dog and you give it only food, and it dies, so you give the next dog only water, it will die too. A dog needs many things to thrive, and in differing amounts at different times. Food, water, purpose, rest, play, social play, meaning, meaningless moments.
Japan is in trouble -- but they're not in trouble the way the South Koreans are. There will be fewer Japanese in 50 years than there are today, but not "4 great grandchildren for every 100 living koreans today" fewer.
Meanwhile, America and the west's deconstruction threatens the foundation of the civilization. One of the reasons for the fall of Athens and the western Roman Empire was the constant importation of people from outside the Empire and the effects that had on the natives who weren't part of the elite classes, and we're seeing that today.
Japan's current trajectory began with Commodore Perry's black ships sailing into Tokyo harbor where the pre-modern ideology of Japan at that time was tested and found to be wanting against the modernist ideology of the Americans and Europeans, leading to the Meiji Restoration and quick adoption of many modernist ideals which ultimately resulted in Imperial Japan in World War 2.
America as a nation was born very close to the French revolution and the birth of the modern period, and is strongly influenced by that modernism. When Japanese modernism falls apart, premodern themes emerge. When American modernism falls apart, there's nothing left.
Both are flawed ways of looking at the world, but modernism still believes that there's a societal telos, postmodernism believes that any direction is inherently evil (except direction away from a societal telos)
For America, events such as the nuclear bombing of Japan may have won them the war, but those same events were existential attacks on the grand American project. Events such as World War 1 broke the western narrative of peace and progress, and events such as the holocaust held up a mirror for the west to see what their totalizing ideology looked like, and they didn't like what they saw.
Both totalizing ideologies -- modernism's totalization towards "progress" and telos, and postmodernism's totalization away from such things, are effectively suicidal in the long run. If you have a dog and you give it only food, and it dies, so you give the next dog only water, it will die too. A dog needs many things to thrive, and in differing amounts at different times. Food, water, purpose, rest, play, social play, meaning, meaningless moments.
Japan is in trouble -- but they're not in trouble the way the South Koreans are. There will be fewer Japanese in 50 years than there are today, but not "4 great grandchildren for every 100 living koreans today" fewer.
Meanwhile, America and the west's deconstruction threatens the foundation of the civilization. One of the reasons for the fall of Athens and the western Roman Empire was the constant importation of people from outside the Empire and the effects that had on the natives who weren't part of the elite classes, and we're seeing that today.
Japan's current trajectory began with Commodore Perry's black ships sailing into Tokyo harbor where the pre-modern ideology of Japan at that time was tested and found to be wanting against the modernist ideology of the Americans and Europeans, leading to the Meiji Restoration and quick adoption of many modernist ideals which ultimately resulted in Imperial Japan in World War 2.
America as a nation was born very close to the French revolution and the birth of the modern period, and is strongly influenced by that modernism. When Japanese modernism falls apart, premodern themes emerge. When American modernism falls apart, there's nothing left.
@sj_zero Cool story bro.
Except the part where post-modernism is an ideology of opportunistic destruction cultivated by our enemies and passed off as philosophical thought, originally by a lot of French pedos before being taken up by the malleable diarrhea known as the corrupt grifting academic class.
America isn't falling apart, it's being killed. It's being killed in very specific tactical ways by very specific groups with cultural and religious goals that can only be described as evil.
I agree with what you've said.
I've written at long length about the way postmodernism isnt used consistently, it's often used as a weapon used to cut down things that are in opposition to certain groups but magically never gets used on any of their grand narratives or objective truths.
Just a slightly different glistening facet of the crap gem that is contemporary western society.
I've written at long length about the way postmodernism isnt used consistently, it's often used as a weapon used to cut down things that are in opposition to certain groups but magically never gets used on any of their grand narratives or objective truths.
Just a slightly different glistening facet of the crap gem that is contemporary western society.
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