Quote: (08-12-2016 01:28 PM)Phoenix Wrote:
It's been building for a while, and they need to do it. Eventually certain individuals in the head-knodding society that is Japan, rise to a position where there's nobody they need to nod their head at any more. Then they get to think and act freely. The logical conclusion they've come to is that there is something fundamentally, viscerally fucked about their nation, and that restoring certain aspects of prior Japanese societies will remedy that.
I'm inclined to agree. There's some validity to having a shogun or emperor say "fucking breed you spastics, or else I'll send you to the salt mine" to keep people adhering to basic social necessities. Unfortunately this tends to go hand in hand with warmongering -- shogun wants those babies so he can march then to their death to expand his territory.
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I agree - and I found this story (from last January) EXTRAORDINARY! Headline summary: "In a Japan seemingly obsessed with sex, few seem to indulge"
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-w...04480.html
WHAT A STRANGE - and unexpected - PARADOX! (And to be frank, somewhat disturbing that the young Japanese are so asexual.)
Japan, like many other nations, is suffering a birth dearth, and perhaps some kind of national zeal can jump-start enough optimism for the future to make the investment in having children worthwhile.
The world needs examples from where the reversal of demographic decline happens and is supported culturally.
Lunar, the OP also writes:
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I have always considered Japan almost western. But if things escalate under globalism, what could this mean for myself? Canada and Japan seem like safe bets, but sometimes Canada seems like it has gone full retard.
Now it appears that doors might be closing tighter. Many Japanese love Trump, and I think that his ideas of Make America Great are resonating with the Japanese. They want to be in control of their country, to Make Japan Great Again. All around are the signs of a generation giving up.
Having children means a country will not give up! On being a people, on improving the future of the human race!
And the tranzi globalists cannot achieve this through an abstract "universalist humanism" that they prize and are committed on taking us all towards.
Successful reversal of the birth dearth must happen somewhere! When it happens, a model is born.
Currently, for example, More people in Europe are dying than are being born.
“The researchers find that 17 European nations have more people dying in them than are being born (natural decrease), including three of Europe’s more populous nations: Russia, Germany and Italy. In contrast, in the U.S. and in the state of Texas, births exceed deaths by a substantial margin. . . . Findings reveal that 58 percent of the 1,391 counties of Europe had more deaths than births compared to just 28 percent of the 3,141 counties of the U.S.”
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-people-euro...-born.html
And under Obama's "fundamentally transformed" into socialist (or fascist, to be more precise) America
has now entered this vortex of unsustainable self-inficted decline, too:
From theweek via Instapundit:
"BIRTHRATES ALWAYS PLUMMET UNDER SOCIALISM: America’s falling birth rate is now a national emergency."
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The new birth rate numbers are out, and they’re a disaster. There are now only 59.6 births per 1,000 women, the lowest rate ever recorded in the United States. Some of the decrease is due to good news, which is the continuing decline of teen pregnancies, but most of it is due to people getting married later and choosing to have fewer children. And the worst part is, everyone is treating this news with a shrug.
It wasn’t always this way. It used to be taken for granted that the best indicator of a nation’s health was its citizens’ desire and capacity to reproduce. And it should still seem self-evident that people’s willingness to have children is not only a sign of confidence in the future, but a sign of cultural health. It’s a signal that people are willing to commit to the most enduring responsibility on Earth, which is raising a child.
But reproduction is also a sign of national health in a more dollars-and-cents way. The more productive people you have in your society, the healthier your country’s economy. It’s an idea that was obvious back in the 17th century, when economist Jean Bodin wrote “the only wealth is people.”
https://theweek.com/articles/642303/amer...-emergency
"Yes, but then we got Paul Ehrlich," as Glenn Reynolds ruefully comments in his close.
My apologies for wandering so far afield from the subject of Japan. Perhaps someone will summarize the McClatchy piece about the asexual young of Japan?