Due to low birth rate, Japan abolishes social sciences, STEM for all.

[The Brain]

Japanese civilization is superior. The West is going ever so gentle into that good night.

[Malthus]

The childhood he'll get in rural Japan should be far more safe and pleasant than living in the South. He'll have his druthers when he's 18, and can reject either US or Japanese citizenship in favor of the other.

Well, maybe by that time the "in outer space" option will be available. 

[Eddie Teach]

Japanese civilization is superior. The West is going ever so gentle into that good night.

Japanese civilization committed seppukku decades ago.

[Razgovory]

I'm glad people who think like Mono are in charge in Asia - this means, for all their industriousness they will never beat the West.

In fact look at what happened to Japan - they came close (remember all the fears of the Japanese taking over the US economy in the 70s and the 80s?) but then started to slide back, exactly because creativity and innovativeness (in a true sense, not just how to make a smaller computer) cannot be centrally planned. Same will happen with China - they have been growing because they started from really really low and they just have a shitload of people, so in absolute numbers it seems staggering - but there is only a certain (sub-Western) level they will reach and then they will began to slide back - you could say that this has already begun.

There is a reason Americans invented the iPhone and the best Chinese can do is to make it (or plagiarise it) - and not the other way around.

I think the reason the Japanese economy hit a brick wall is their economy is based around cartels.

[Josquius]

Amongst my high schoolers in Japan it was known even at their young age that the humanities were the way to go.
Your future company would randomly assign you to a department anyway so there was no point studying something difficult and practical, best to just spend a few years "studying" something light and easy.

[Ideologue]

The childhood he'll get in rural Japan should be far more safe and pleasant than living in the South. He'll have his druthers when he's 18, and can reject either US or Japanese citizenship in favor of the other.

I guess on the plus side he won't have any black churches to shoot up in Japan.

[Admiral Yi]

Lettuce, are you working?  If so, legit or gray market?

[The Brain]

Japanese civilization is superior. The West is going ever so gentle into that good night.

Japanese civilization committed seppukku decades ago.

A scathing indictment of Western civilization.

[Josquius]

Unlike Sweden Japan doesn't look like a Third World shithole with rampant vandalism, beggars everywhere etc. I have more confidence in Japan's abilities to overcome the challenges of the next 100 years than I have in Sweden's.

Unlike most western countries it does have abandoned decaying buildings and disjointed incomplete  road barriers everywhere though.

Also though you rarely see beggars there are plentiful homeless to be seen in japan. THey just tend to behave themselves.

[grumbler]

They may be lacking sound principles, judging by the PC concepts they keep on producing, but what should be their principal output then, according to you? 

Knowledge.

You mean "knowledge Yi agrees with."  PC concepts are knowledge.  They just aren't knowledge that you personally value.

[Ideologue]

Unlike Sweden Japan doesn't look like a Third World shithole with rampant vandalism, beggars everywhere etc. I have more confidence in Japan's abilities to overcome the challenges of the next 100 years than I have in Sweden's.

Unlike most western countries it does have abandoned decaying buildings and disjointed incomplete  road barriers everywhere though.

Seriously?  You been in Swiss Heaven that long?

[Hamilcar]

Unlike Sweden Japan doesn't look like a Third World shithole with rampant vandalism, beggars everywhere etc. I have more confidence in Japan's abilities to overcome the challenges of the next 100 years than I have in Sweden's.

Unlike most western countries it does have abandoned decaying buildings and disjointed incomplete  road barriers everywhere though.

Seriously?  You been in Swiss Heaven that long?

What is Swiss Heaven?

[Ideologue]

Where you came from, angel.

[garbon]

Jos describes it as hell.

[Razgovory]

They may be lacking sound principles, judging by the PC concepts they keep on producing, but what should be their principal output then, according to you? 

Knowledge.

You mean "knowledge Yi agrees with."  PC concepts are knowledge.  They just aren't knowledge that you personally value.

In Yi's defense things like "trigger warnings", and "microagression", aren't valuable to anyone.