/lit/ - Literature

>>6547345
Is satori sedai, then, the spectre of the 'hippie' generation that came before? They share the same goal of dropping out, basically, but where the hippies thought one could "reform" the system -- through the transformation of culture, pseudo-integration with politics, or, more extremely, the establishment of communes and cooperatives -- the satori sedai would rather make themselves mere ghosts? It's interesting: the 21st century's first people have taken the long view of the 20th century's experience, desires, and world wide conflicts, distilled it all into a single philosophy (whether politically fascist or capitalist) of constant growth, constant consumption, constant expansion, and decided to effectively let the 20th century run its course. The article cites the earthquake, tsunami, 9/11 (the cause of the World War in the Middle-East), but the world economic crisis, caused to generate monstrous wealth for the ruling first world capitalists, has hit Japan's (and the world's) youth extremely hard. The parent generation that believed in reform and integration with the power structure are naturally puzzled when the current generation isn't trying to copy them, but that's because they haven't seen through the illusion. When an entire century is teaching us that taking radical action is necessary to change things and produces the results it has -- a literally non-stop state of global war since 1914, negligent and deliberate genocides of both human and non-human species, millions of people holding accidental nominal political power that are too engrained in nationalist ideology and greed to change their lifestyles based on scientific research -- the satori sendai take them for their word and deed and take the more radical action of non-action. You don't want to provide living wages? Fine. You don't want to provide full-time employment? Fine. You don't want us to be educated? Fine. You don't want us to be able to afford children? Fine. In a bid to get rich quick the old guard poisoned the system they need to be rich. So, if satori sedai were to take over, the system would die of its own deed, as Marx pointed out, but with a whimper and not the hot cries of violent revolution.