Quote: (08-22-2018 12:22 AM)TravelerKai Wrote:
Burnout has always been a factor and a major issue in Asia period. Japan might be the best modern example of this. Much of the degenerative aspects, fetish porn, grass eating men problem, stems from the burn out factor.
Because it is so deeply rooted in Asian cultures no amount of technology or political change will root it out either.
My wife is a burnout. Should have gone to a 4 year university. Had a breakdown in my opinion when she told me her story. She was number one or two in school most of her life.
She is even now trying to keep up with her friends with advanced education for babies and kids. It's subconscious to them. I grew up around advanced placement and magnet school school kids because I was one. Very few of us stayed elite into college and plenty burned out and went to the military or got a trade. With education Asians think everything is a fucking race and they are too quick to show off how smart their kids are.
Even some self made rich ones I know do this. I'm not sure what would change this culture but it would require some of the idiotic hyper competitive testing and school work that is mandatory to ease up. In places like China non math studies are looked down on. Art, writing, etc is considered not important that's why their creativity sucks and they copy everyone else's shit. Koreans are a lot better but their system isn't quite like ours at the same time.
TK, you’ve hit on some salient points here. To add on to what you’ve mentioned about education being a race, even if you “win” you’re still relegated to the role of serf when you enter the company. While the big name uni can get you into the gates of the Ministries and elite corporations, once you’re in, the self-flagellation process starts over with no future benefit.
Watched this one video about Mishima and how one of the reasons for his suicide was that he saw the end of an era in Japan where men no longer receive a “heroic death”.
(Start at 12:23)
Now, what does that mean in this context? Well, let’s recap Japan in the earlier century.
-Yes there was hard work and overtime, but you were paid adequately for the time you put in.
-A man had the means to support himself, his family, and was seen as an individual who uplifted his communal duties.
-While maybe not being able to “stand out” in the Western sense, a man contributed to the whole and was rewarded for that.
At the end of it all, that man would be seen as someone who did his part, and traditional society patted him on the back and thanked him for his service him for it. When it was his time to pass, he could essentially have a “heroic death”.
What do we have nowadays?
-A system that expects men to work twice as hard and receive half the rewards of that of previous generations.
-Instead of thanking the men who get out there and fight, western media continually inundates cultural circles with feminism and #metoo platitudes, attending to the needs of women at the expense of men.
-Women enter the workforce in droves and expect to achieve at the same standards as men, only to find out much later that the ladies with the pantsuit and corner office aren’t seen as the pinnacle of marriage material.
-Men who do get married are forced to have separate bedrooms, have to give their paycheck to the women, then are being yelled at and divorced after they retire (i.e. replaced) from the company.
The men bend over backwards, get the education, do everything that society tells them to and what is the reward? Pocket lint.
It is no wonder younger guys are throwing up their middle fingers, checking out of society and playing Fortnite all day. Why be a part of something that sees you as nothing more than cannon fodder? There is no heroic death in being a whipping boy.
Sometimes, it seems this part of the world is trying to chase two rabbits at the same time.
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