JoeMarron said:
This sounds profoundly fvcked up but I'm all for it. The more socially awkward men there are getting their needs met like this means less men snapping and going on a murderous rampage.
They should be taught how to shape up and be men instead.
You know, the one thing Ernesto Guevara and his boss Fidel Castro had a fairly good idea about, when they weren't killing a larger percentage of the Cuban people than Stalin had killed of the Soviet citizens, was to set up labor camps to "toughen up cultural deviants". Guevara's henchmen would ride around the streets and pick up young men who dressed like hippies and that time's version of punkers, and also homosexuals who Guevara hated, and put them in camps. There was a sign over the camp gates saying "Arbeit Macht Fr..." no, it said "We will make a man out of you", but in Spanish. (Wonder what those who worship "Che!" and dress like deviants would say about that. Guevara would have thrown them in camps immediately for dying their hair, wearing baggy pants etc.)
But I digress.
What Japan needs is some sort of "Back to Nature" movement, like the scouts. Getting out in nature and doing things is very healthy for men and women alike. It gives you a great perspective on yourself and the world. It keeps you grounded in reality. When it starts raining, really pouring down, so much the better; you take cover in the tent you helped erect, and you feel how great it is that we have invented buildings. You understand what it is all for. Not for your amusement, but for your survival. And when you come back home after a harsh time in the forest, you will have a new, better appreciation for the civilization you live in, and you will have a better view of what is truly important.
And no, guys; it is never going to be this bad in either the U.S. or anywhere else in the West. Japan is a fairly unique case, they have always had a habit of focusing hardcore on things there. It is in their DNA, no doubt. Does it come with a higher affinity for mathematics, like a mild-case Aspergers? This habit of intense focus on a hobby? Remember, these were the guys who invented the samurai culture, the most fanatically disciplined warriors in world history, who didn't hesitate even to take their own lives when ordered to do so. That is focus. Think of kamikazes; that is focus. Think of the enormous re-building effort after the U.S. had firebombed Tokyo and nuked two cities in an already basically defeated nation. Japan rebuilt fast and even came to dominate the car industry and the stereo industry, even in the U.S., with the world's greatest industrial base. That is fantastic focus. Today that focus has been derailed, though. Into computer games and the like. It is a shame, really. But no, that kind of focus will never be seen in the West. We didn't follow them into spending our youth glued to the school textbooks, studying every waking hour for finals, and we will not follow them into this.
