Japanese young people don't have sex anymore...c'mon guys, it tastes just like sushi
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex
It's happening everywhere. We can't love each other any more. Alfonso Cuaron was right. Actually, whoever wrote the novel was right, but we can't read anymore either.
Actually, it's a very good article.
QuoteInside, she takes me upstairs to her "relaxation room" – a bedroom with no furniture except a double futon. "It will be quiet in here," she says. Aoyama's first task with most of her clients is encouraging them "to stop apologising for their own physical existence".
That, and a few other quotes, sum up the situation pretty well. Everything is so hateful today--the world at large, everyone toward everyone else, and even themselves--that it's no surprise that people can't be comfortable with others any longer, and only with themselves because they have no choice.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 08:28:21 PM
Actually, it's a very good article.
QuoteInside, she takes me upstairs to her "relaxation room" – a bedroom with no furniture except a double futon. "It will be quiet in here," she says. Aoyama's first task with most of her clients is encouraging them "to stop apologising for their own physical existence".
That, and a few other quotes, sum up the situation pretty well. Everything is so hateful today--the world at large, everyone toward everyone else, and even themselves--that it's no surprise that people can't be comfortable with others any longer, and only with themselves because they have no choice.
It's the fault of Protestantism, which is basically gnosticism. If God has no flesh, why should we?
Fucking gnostics.
Don't think it would explain Japan.
No, it's capitalism, which is basically slavery.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 09:09:33 PM
Don't think it would explain Japan.
No, it's capitalism, which is basically slavery.
Capitalism, which didn't exist before Protestantism, and which is, therefore,
supra, gnosticism.
It's post-Christian mainly. True Believers are still happy to rut about and plop out 3 or more children.
I blame the Japanese economy. Women are attracted to men who are successful/famous/rich, or men who are dangerous. Japan is famously conformist, so not many dangerous men, and Japan's economy is stagnating, so few men are successful.
Personally, I am much more concerned with the older-American-men-are-not-having-sex-anymore phenomenon.
I would like to get married and have children, but it's just too troublesome--for my prospective wife and potential kids. <_<
Quote from: Scipio on October 26, 2013, 09:19:34 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 09:09:33 PM
Don't think it would explain Japan.
No, it's capitalism, which is basically slavery.
Capitalism, which didn't exist before Protestantism, and which is, therefore, supra, gnosticism.
Protestantism seems to go hand in hand with capitalism. Japan aside, I am willing to agree that we are both right.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 09:45:15 PM
I would like to get married and have children, but it's just too troublesome--for my prospective wife and potential kids. <_<
Tell me about it. Like I need to build more bridges of my bullshit across multiple stakeholder silos.
Quote from: Scipio on October 26, 2013, 09:07:20 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 08:28:21 PM
Actually, it's a very good article.
QuoteInside, she takes me upstairs to her "relaxation room" – a bedroom with no furniture except a double futon. "It will be quiet in here," she says. Aoyama's first task with most of her clients is encouraging them "to stop apologising for their own physical existence".
That, and a few other quotes, sum up the situation pretty well. Everything is so hateful today--the world at large, everyone toward everyone else, and even themselves--that it's no surprise that people can't be comfortable with others any longer, and only with themselves because they have no choice.
It's the fault of Protestantism, which is basically gnosticism. If God has no flesh, why should we?
Fucking gnostics.
You're a good man Scip.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 08:28:21 PM
Actually, it's a very good article.
QuoteInside, she takes me upstairs to her "relaxation room" – a bedroom with no furniture except a double futon. "It will be quiet in here," she says. Aoyama's first task with most of her clients is encouraging them "to stop apologising for their own physical existence".
That, and a few other quotes, sum up the situation pretty well. Everything is so hateful today--the world at large, everyone toward everyone else, and even themselves--that it's no surprise that people can't be comfortable with others any longer, and only with themselves because they have no choice.
You make a good point. You should engage in some fire-related demonstration to really burn the message in the public's collective psyche.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 26, 2013, 09:26:23 PM
I blame the Japanese economy. Women are attracted to men who are successful/famous/rich, or men who are dangerous.
That has absolutely nothing to do with Japan in particular and everything to do with human evolution.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 27, 2013, 02:12:14 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 26, 2013, 09:26:23 PM
I blame the Japanese economy. Women are attracted to men who are successful/famous/rich, or men who are dangerous.
That has absolutely nothing to do with Japan in particular and everything to do with human evolution.
Elaborate.
Has there ever been a time when women were not attracted to men who were successful/famous/rich/dangerous?
:P
Although languish is painting this with a universalist brush, there are cultural factors at work here. On the whole, it's good stuff.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 27, 2013, 02:35:58 AM
Has there ever been a time when women were not attracted to men who were successful/famous/rich/dangerous?
:P
Elaborate.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 27, 2013, 02:35:58 AM
Has there ever been a time when women were not attracted to men who were successful/famous/rich/dangerous?
:P
1996-2002. <_<
Don't we already have a thread about this?
It's not true. Japanese people have sex. They just don't start families until its too late.
Tyr, you must remember your point of reference is skewed. Japanese women who associate with foreigners are, typically, thirsty hoes, after all.
I'm big in Japan.
Quote from: Lettow77 on October 27, 2013, 04:17:56 AM
Tyr, you must remember your point of reference is skewed. Japanese women who associate with foreigners are, typically, thirsty hoes, after all.
Your woman is the same?
I don't know many gaijin chasers, most Japanese people I know tend towards the somewhat normal.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 27, 2013, 02:35:58 AM
Has there ever been a time when women were not attracted to men who were successful/famous/rich/dangerous?
:P
Late high school, early college/bohemian years.
It's not until they're about 24 that they realize the unemployed-bassist-but-he's-an-artist schtick doesn't hold up too long.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 26, 2013, 09:51:40 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 09:45:15 PM
I would like to get married and have children, but it's just too troublesome--for my prospective wife and potential kids. <_<
Tell me about it. Like I need to build more bridges of my bullshit across multiple stakeholder silos.
Well Ide, this is where your selfishness will get you.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 08:18:51 PM
We can't love each other any more. Alfonso Cuaron was right. Actually, whoever wrote the novel was right, but we can't read anymore either.
What? What are you talking about?
Quote from: Ideologue on October 26, 2013, 09:09:33 PM
Don't think it would explain Japan.
No, it's capitalism, which is basically slavery.
I'm gonna fix your post for you.
"No, it's socialism, which is basically slavery."
Apparently you can take the kibbutz out of the Jew.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 27, 2013, 12:22:40 PM
Apparently you can take the kibbutz out of the Jew.
He is a shame to his people. :(
You really don't understand how the kibbutzim system work, don't you?
Within a national free market economical system, you can have as many private socialist enterprises as you want without affecting the competitiveness of the national economy at large, because these socialist/communist enterprises still have to compete in a free market economy. The problem is when the national economy is socialist/command/planned economy.
Now, if only the Israeli economy were more free...
You should go back and fight for its independence.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 28, 2013, 01:13:44 PM
You should go back and fight for its independence.
He hath forsaken his home land. He'll probably be come an Evangelical pretty soon.
You know it seems odd that 25 years ago everyone was talking about how Japan was overtaking the US and on the cusp of the being the world's greatest economic power.
Quote from: Razgovory on October 28, 2013, 01:18:45 PM
You know it seems odd that 25 years ago everyone was talking about how Japan was overtaking the US and on the cusp of the being the world's greatest economic power.
15 years ago we thought there'd be economic growth in the West forever.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 28, 2013, 03:40:26 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 28, 2013, 01:18:45 PM
You know it seems odd that 25 years ago everyone was talking about how Japan was overtaking the US and on the cusp of the being the world's greatest economic power.
15 years ago we thought there'd be economic growth in the West forever.
Yeah. Then we got Obama.
Quote from: Siege on October 28, 2013, 10:41:03 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 28, 2013, 03:40:26 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 28, 2013, 01:18:45 PM
You know it seems odd that 25 years ago everyone was talking about how Japan was overtaking the US and on the cusp of the being the world's greatest economic power.
15 years ago we thought there'd be economic growth in the West forever.
Yeah. Then we got Obama.
And?
Quote from: Razgovory on October 28, 2013, 11:20:25 PM
Quote from: Siege on October 28, 2013, 10:41:03 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 28, 2013, 03:40:26 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 28, 2013, 01:18:45 PM
You know it seems odd that 25 years ago everyone was talking about how Japan was overtaking the US and on the cusp of the being the world's greatest economic power.
15 years ago we thought there'd be economic growth in the West forever.
Yeah. Then we got Obama.
And?
He's the Antchrist, set to lead the forces of Brest-Litovsk in the battle of Armageddon.
Quote from: Siege on October 28, 2013, 10:41:03 PM
Yeah. Then we got Obama.
:lol:
WTF?
I could understand somebody a century from now being a president too late in remembering events of our time but doing so whilst the guy is still in office?