About this book
This is a recycled book (book I got) from the library and a bath book (book to read in the bath).
A collection of dialogues. Poetry and literature (Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Machiko Tawara, etc.), Japanese and Japanese, developed from the story of Mr. Yoshimoto himself when he was young, labor movement, politics, economy, capitalism, socialism, nation It touches on various topics such as theory and death.
Poetry, Literature
I'm not interested in poetry. I don't know. However, Shuntaro Tanikawa's "Poetry Turning", which is posted on Twitter every day, is very interesting. I'm wondering if I should buy a book if I have one, or maybe I should buy one every day. I'd like to quote the poem of July 11th, but I'm sure there is a copyright problem, so link . I feel that the essence of "translating" "Japanese" or "Japanese poetry" into English (European), or the essence of thinking in a different language, is expressed in four lines. It makes me think that "poetry" is amazing.
Still, I don't like "poetry" because I read "poetry that rejects meaning" represented by "dada's poetry", "the road behind me" I think it's because I was taught a "preaching-smelling poem" like "I'm coming out" (Kotaro Takamura's "Road"), but anyway, let's understand the beginning of this book. Did not. I haven't read any of the poet's books in this book, so I couldn't understand what they were saying.
I basically don't read literature, so-called novels. The only exception is Haruki Murakami. I think Yoshimoto's evaluation of Haruki is excellent.
Banana Yoshimoto's evaluation is probably right. I think it's great to see her position as a critic and somewhere worried about her daughter as her father.
Japanese, language
I want to do something for myself from where the Japanese came from and what the Japanese are. is. (P.293-294)
I understand how you feel. I understand that I want to know the "reason" that "I" is here, not just "searching for roots". It is "Raison d'Atle". Physically, "because my parents did something naughty." There is nothing else.
The desire to "know" and "understand" what Japanese is, what kind of language Japanese is, etc. is to know "what I am". It is seeking the identity of "self", that is, "I" and "what is me", that is, identity.
So it's very good for sensory expressions, but it's very bad for logical expressions. Or maybe it's too incomplete for metaphysical expression so far. Or maybe the history is too short. You have that kind of feeling.
However, Japanese is a well-trained word in terms of repetitiveness. I think it's not logical, it's repetitive. In other words, I think that there is a kind of genealogy that has been trained by it because I have been using illogical and sensuous expressions and expressions for many years. But I don't think it's logical. Is it a certain genealogy, is it accumulation, is it accumulation by repetition? I feel that it is consistent in the sense that it forms a series. But isn't that logical? Logic is Western or Greek, so it doesn't have logic. (P.295)
It's very sharp to point out, but I don't really understand what you think of the "missing" logic in Japanese. Hmm. I will quote another sentence.
In other words, Japanese is a word that is not good at ideological expressions, but nevertheless, postwar words made such ideological expressions possible on the one hand. .. For that reason, there is one thing that the area of writing style that evokes the image has expanded. Also, the story is the same. In short, it's just an extension. (P.281)
I don't know what "ideal expression" means. However, for example, conceptual concepts such as "democracy" and "freedom" have existed since the Meiji era. Nishi Amane translated this "idea" into "idea".
Until then, the word "idea" was also used in Japanese. I still say "think". It doesn't mean "fantasy". Originally, it is a Buddhist term that means "to see through the truth." That was the translation of "idea", so it became "confusing". The meanings of "fantasy," "just thinking in my head," "non-existent," and "picture fantasy" were added.
"idea" may refer to "non-existent things" such as "beautiful" or "good", but there are also "idea" such as "desk" and "dog". "Idea" is not directly related to "logic". However, when thinking about "idea (ιδέα, idea)", "logic (λόγος, logos)" is naturally premised. And "logos" is a "word". In other words, for Westerners, "thinking in words" and "speaking words" are "logic" itself. Therefore, for Westerners, "idea" is "a part of the logical thing", not "picture sky". It happened that Nishi Amane adopted "idea" as a word paired with "reality (existence, which is also a part of logical things)", so "idea" became "non-existent". "Existence" is troublesome again, and in Japanese it means "actually, exists, exists" in Japanese, so "idea" means "doesn't actually exist". I will. "Idea" also has such nuances, but in Western Europe, both are based on "logic". Therefore, for Westerners, both "idea" and "reality" are "logical." In other words, "what humans speak" is "logical." Conversely, an "illogical person" is "not a human" (although in modern times or after the Renaissance).
After the 18th century, Tzvetan Todorov and others thought that the Greeks called "Barbaroi (βάρβαροι)" as "a person with imperfect logos". It is an argument that forgets that "humans" have been "rediscovered" in Western Europe.
Based on that, what does Mr. Yoshimoto's word "ideal" mean? I don't know. I feel that it can be either "logical" or "fantasy". It doesn't mean "emotional", right?
The masses, or the original images of the masses, who were once removed from words and had everyday life, are now surrounded by words. The way it is surrounded is that the footsteps that once grew from the order of expression of words surround the masses with written words . Then the masses as the original image were forced to eat it there. I think that I have been surrounded by accepting words exclusively in the form that there is no culture to eat other than eating it. (Emphasis mark quoter, P.193)
It seems to be close to my idea, and there are various discrepancies.
Mr. Yoshimoto seems to confuse "spoken language" with "letters." This sentence I am writing is not "spoken language" but "letter (written language)". "Japanese is not logical" and "logical (Japanese) sentences" are completely different. It is possible to write sentences "logically" to some extent even in Japanese. It is possible to translate Mr. Yoshimoto's text into Western European language, even if it becomes "a word that has no taste and no taste" (P.295).
It is the difference that authors and scholars tend to forget. It's clear that this book-like dialogue collection is textual. Every time I transcribe and proofread, the elements of the spoken language disappear and become "written words". But what about when you play the dialogue on the radio? You can't see your facial expression. The situation (atmosphere) being spoken is also difficult to understand. Still, do you think it is "equivalent to spoken language"? Why don't you broadcast it on TV? This time, you can see the facial expressions of the speaker and listener, even if the image quality does not matter. But do you know what the speaker or listener is seeing at that time? It's a "camera", not me. On the other side of the speaker and listener, there are many staff such as cameras and lighting. And there are no viewers (usually). There is only a dark space that is different from the brightly lit studio set. When shooting a scene in a room in a drama, how far can you imagine and see the "wallless space" on the other side? What's more, all you can see on TV is what the director (producer) wants to show. In the police drama, the evidence leading to the criminal is shown up, and in the "street interview", only the one intentionally selected by the producer side is shown. There is no denying the possibility of being a "performer" prepared by the producer (although there seems to be a tendency to answer "sontaku" according to the creator's intentions these days).
In other words, they are "letters" or "culture of letters". Half a century ago, I feel that "spoken language" was more abundant than it is now. Now, the number of spoken words has decreased (imagine a one-man car, an unmanned cash register, a family hanging out silently in front of a TV, etc.), and instead, the overflowing "sound (digital music and synthesized voice)" and " Surrounded by "video". And they are not the dialogue of equal people, but the intentional creation of the dominant (non-equal) side.
The intent of the "producer" or "dominant side" is not the intent of staff, bureaucrats or politicians. If you and I like it, you can stand by the creator (it's easy to "speak" on Twitter). Nor does it mean that bureaucrats and politicians have the intention of "control" or "exploitation." I think most people think "for everyone". Even "for myself" is "for everyone". Because I am also a part of "everyone".
First of all, it is clear that the current culture is "word priority". However, it is a culture that prioritizes "written words," that is, "letters." The characters are now "digital data" (most of the newly created images are also digital data). Even the author's "individuality" (handwriting) that the written characters had is not there. It started a long time ago when the spoken language was written, and when it seemed to be "equivalent" to the spoken language (it is always reproduced. Toh Enjoe, " Character whirlpool ”expresses it in an interesting way. Of course, Atsushi Nakajima's "Character").
The word is not just "sound". Facial expressions, gestures, the distance between the speaker and the listener, the time spoken, etc. all make sense. I don't know the meaning of the word "physicality", but the word and body are not "different" (think deaf people's words, sign language, etc.). Of course, human beings (organisms) have "adaptability", "forward stress", or "relaxation", so even if you cannot see or hear, you can sympathize with the emotions of the other person. .. I think that's why you can "empathize" and "impress" by watching books and TV (despite the limitations and lack of information).
Character culture surrounds us on TV, movies, smartphones and more. However, there is a remnant of spoken language (oral culture), the "original image". We have the flexibility to reconstruct the "whole" from that "fragment" (which we might call "culture"). However, I think that recognizing and communicating it is to preserve the "original image, original form" (spoken language). We must also recognize that its flexibility has the opposite power. In the "society of letters", the words heard on TV not only sound the same as the words spoken by friends, but also the words spoken by friends or more . It means having "power".
Critics
The word "Uso" contains various elements, and it cannot be explained in words. I don't think there is much difference in that sense, just because I don't explain it.
What is a professional critic? You can conversely define what an ordinary person feels but cannot say as a person who can properly decompose it. It is not an expert who says something special, but it can be said that the reason why the general public says "good" or "this is not good" can be broken down into small pieces. I think it's okay to define that as a critic. (P.290)
A critic does "decomposition" and "analysis" and logical A person who can (describe) words. Anyway, we "decompose" and "analyze" substances and phenomena. And it's the same as a "scientist" who turns it into a "mathematical formula" or a "sentence."
There are two assumptions. One is that the "original whole" is the one that integrates the disassembled ones. In other words, the whole is a collection of parts. The important thing, and what I want to understand, is the "individual" and "part". Speaking of "society" and "individual", what is important is not "society" but "individual". And that "individual" is "self". I am now " I am thinking about society ".
The other is that it is stationary and does not change. If the subject changes while the critic makes a critic, it will not be a critic. That is, the subject must not change during (at least) critique (recognition, understanding). What critics criticize is "text (text)" (although video is fine). It is "fixed". You might be told, "What's moving, what's trending, and so on." The "movement" and "trend" itself must "stop (constantly)" as one object.
The fundamental strategy of science when analyzing various phenomena is to first look for something that does not change. All physical laws-as well as all mathematical developments-clearly state universal relationships. The most basic proposition of science is the axiom of universal preservation. Whatever example you choose, it is not really possible to analyze a phenomenon unless it is represented by something immutable that is preserved there. (" coincidence and inevitability " by J. Mono Itaru Watanabe, translated by Mitsuhiko Murakami, Misuzu Shobo P.116)
In other words, the "identity" that "A is A", that is, "identity" is. But "A = A" is the same as saying nothing. "I am because I think" does not actually say anything. In order for A to be A, "A is B and not non-B", "A is C and not non-C" ... (These are the "law of excluded middle" and the "law of noncontradiction". It is also possible to divide). And as the sum of "A = B", "A = C" ..., we can say "A = A", that is, "I am me".
But is the "sum" such as "I am a human being", "I am Japanese", "I am a man", etc. "I"? Many Westerners (Indo-European native speakers) may say "yes". Many Japanese people think so now. That is the idea that "the whole is a collection of parts".
If you add video to audio, add color, add a sense of reality, and add 3D, 4D ... digital data, you can reproduce the reality (it can be replaced with reality). I think the idea of) is very Western. Is it right. Isn't "going" to an idol's live different from "watching" the live DVD? Even if you can see only a small idol at the live venue, and even if you can see the detailed facial expressions on the DVD. Even if the cheering next door was noisy at the venue and the idol song was disturbed.
People's justice
If the people don't agree, capital can't do more than that, and if it's ten times worse, twenty. Capital has no more authority than what it is like to double, and if it is not 20 times, how about 30 times. (P.147)
This is "ground raising". There are several things involved in this. National (law) regulation, nationalization of land (public ownership, sharing), living and economy, etc. Of course, "land raising" involves the intervention of "violence (such as gangsters)", but I still can't sort out "physical violence," "economic violence," and "mental violence."
Should "land raising" be regulated (controlled) by law? Is there actually a regulation (law) regarding land raising? It seems possible to crack down on laws that prevent the involvement of gangsters and urge them to evict in an illegal manner. Well, many people don't have "land to be raised", so it may not be directly related. I don't want prices to rise due to land raising, or the gangsters to take advantage of it.
What is important for the people is rather "price does not rise" and "goods are cheap". Since this pesticide is bad for your health, only rich people who can afford to live to some extent can think of buying pesticide-free vegetables even if it is a little (?) Expensive. If you have 100 yen vegetables and 80 yen vegetables, you buy 80 yen vegetables. If you compare all the leaflets that are folded in a pile in the newspaper, and if there is a 79 yen store, the people will buy it there (even if you use gasoline in your own car). It should be a problem that the cabbage is 10 yen higher than the land raising, the situation in Ukraine, the new coronavirus, abnormal weather, and CO2 emission regulations. The media continues to advertise that the 10 yen higher cabbage is due to the situation in Ukraine and extreme weather. People are increasingly looking for "cheap" cabbage, not with or without pesticides. Buying vegetables with pesticides is justified by the situation in Ukraine. Extreme weather and the situation in Ukraine are said to be "caused by it," and at the same time, soaring vegetables and buying vegetables with pesticides are both indulgence.
So, basically, from a popular standpoint or a consumer standpoint, the principle is simple, and if cheaper and better agricultural products are offered in front of you. , Buy it and eat it. Such a principle is simple, and it doesn't stop no matter how you try to stop it. That's right from a popular standpoint. Other positions are ridiculous. (P.131)
At that time, words such as "buy pesticide-free vegetables should " It is reflected in the picture of the rich and elite. The situation in Ukraine and extreme weather are "finally obtained indulgence", so I will not let go. In capitalism (a society in which capitalist mode of production predominates), "selling high" and "buying cheaply" are the so-called "people's justice" for capitalists, workers, and consumers.
Life and Economy
What does it mean that life has become an economy in the first place? "Living power" is used in the same meaning as "economic power". It's hard to imagine another society because I've only lived in that society. When you imagine a "society without money", you are full of wondering "what will happen to that, what should I do in such a case?"
Many people think of a world without money. The same is true for utopian socialists, and Mr. Ryuto Nagashima's " Moneyless Country "series is also interesting.
The economy-centered society I am talking about is a monetary society, a society in which values are quantified. It can also be called a society in which value is expressed by price (price), or a society of "equivalent exchange".
Many societies have the equivalent of "value." Most likely. Well, it is a society that has "words" that seem to correspond to "value" in the eyes of this society. I don't know the origin of the Japanese word "value". Does "value" correspond to "worth" in English or "value"? When asked "what is value", I cannot answer even if I have spoken only Japanese for over 60 years since I was born. And when we talk about "value," we think of it as "money value," "price," and "price." I am living in a society where the "life insurance" company has become the largest company, angry that "the value of life" is "price for life".
Value and Ownership
Everything is worth it. Marx divided value into "use value" and "value (or exchange value)". The value in use is the value of "eating", "jamming", and "triggering to discover the law of universal gravitation" for apples. It is in any society.
However, as soon as the product (usually a "product") becomes a "product", it can be "exchanged" with "another product (or money)" along with "value in use". You will have the "value (exchange value)" of "yes". Therefore, a capitalist society (Marx is a capitalist mode of production. is the dominant society) is a "commodity society". Then why does a product have "value (exchange value)"? Marx attributed it to Adam Smith's economics because it contained "human labor." The question for Marx was why "land (wilderness)" without labor was valuable.
There are various theories about the labor theory of value and the price of land. Another problem is that in order for a product or land to be "sold", it must be "owned". What was in Marx's head was "Iriaichi". Until then, the land where everyone (but not unlimited) went there to pick up firewood, pick nuts, etc. (which was the lord's territory, but was not under the lord's jurisdiction). , The lord controlled the land, but he didn't own it.) From one day, he was "off limits" and was said to be "picking up firewood is a theft." It is. At that time, the concept of "ownership" may have become clear, but "ownership" and "having (having)" are clarified (subdivided) into "ownership" and "occupancy". New "rights" will be created for each. Currently, I don't know how many "rights" are attached to a land, but they have nothing to do with the "labor" being contained (dropped). And it can be divided and increased as many times as you like.
Many people have been given various rights such as copyright, publishing rights, translation rights, portrait rights, etc. to "creations" such as one picture, photograph, and novel. Is where you know.
"Land" is something everyone needs. Not only standing and sitting, but also building a house, hunting, farming ... It is something that must be alive. It's a big deal to be "owned by someone" (though many people now take it for granted).
But water is already at the stage of having exchange value. Look at it now. I'm sure the air will soon run out. Generally, you just smoke, but since the product will be a place to replenish fresh air in an urban building or something like that, the air is also worth exchanging. I think it's close to the ratio. (P.271)
Can you feel that "water has ownership" is "abnormal"? The "sea" now has various "rights". There are not only "fishery rights" but also mining rights for seabed resources. For that purpose, we have set "territorial waters" and "exclusive economic zones", which were decided by discussions by the countries called "developed countries". I think it's the same as the Western European countries "dividing" the African continent.
The division has nothing to do with the people living on the African continent, nor with the sea fish (or mermaids?). It has nothing to do with countries that are not part of the international treaty or the people who live there. Even if I want to fish, there are quite a few restrictions on fishing in the river. If you break it, you will be arrested. Sea abalone and sea urchins cannot be harvested either. In principle, whales that Japanese people have eaten for a long time cannot be caught. It's very strange and frustrating to me. If I'm hungry, is it a "bad thing" or a "crime" to catch fish in rivers and seas, or to pick fruits in the mountains? What if the "fish" and "fruits" were in the supermarket? Why am I incompatible with "living" and "ownership"?
It may be because I live in such a society. You may be told, "If you don't like it, just go out." But at least, "exchange value (price)" and "ownership" are not the inherent properties of "water," "fish," and "fruit," but "socially determined." I think that many people will agree. For now.
I'm hungry and have food in front of me. Eat it. Whether to pay at that time. The wall looks high, but it's not impossible to overcome. I feel that the wall between "living" and "dying" is higher. Of course, some people may not. However, the person who makes the wall is "the person who has (can have) the thing / money".
Many people think that living is "buying." Exceptional people don't have to buy it, and people envy it. Now fishermen also buy fish (or fishing rights, fishing boats, etc.). Farmers also buy vegetables (not just seeds). People who "produce" in factories also have to buy in order to use the products they make. It's strange to me that I can't convince myself. This is because "owning" and "rights" are not the properties of "things".
I was born naked (probably). I didn't have anything. And my parents gave me various things. It cannot be called a "transfer of ownership". What is given is not something that parents have magically created. I got it by working, but if I trace it back, it is "nature". We live in the "blessings of nature". Some people say that "made of protein" is only found (named?) By humans and is "borrowed from nature and will eventually be returned". That being said, our bodies are not for us to "own". I don't think it is "the nature of my body". In order for us to buy a product, we have to sell something. It is said, "If you don't have anything to sell, sell your body (work)." But is my body my property?
Private and public (national ownership),
But if you deny private property where the state is still alive, you will be fascist or Stalinist. I'm going to be. (P.144)
"Private property" is "private property". On the other hand, there are words such as personal ownership, public ownership, and national ownership. I mentioned "ownership" above, but what all possessions have in common is that there is a "subject" to own and an "object" to own. The "subject" is different, whether it is a private person, an individual, a nation, a "public (common)" or "us". But I think. Is the nature of "owned" in the "object"? Isn't it something that the "subject" has attached to the "object"?
I think that the scheme of "what you own" => "what you own" is the same as the scheme of "A => B" and "A is B". When we can make such a scheme, A becomes B. How do you feel about the words "I am the state" and "I am the state"? The same goes for what I made (created, made) to be me, what I wrote is me, and so on. This is called "alienation," "investment," or "alienation," and has long been considered in Western philosophy (not since modern times). However, this is difficult with the language structure "A is B". Writing in letters makes it even more difficult. This is because "thoughts (thoughts)" become "logic" as soon as they are issued, and become "external reality" as soon as they are written. Inevitably, I am stipulated to be the "subject". The subject cannot become the subject without creating an object, and there is an insurmountable wall between them. "I" would not be possible without "Thou", and "I" could never be "Thou". It's very lonely and sad. It is an image close to "alienation" in Japanese. So you have to "regain" and "recover" it. It takes the form of "self-identity" and "establishment of the ego." The subject thereby becomes more and more distant (independent) from the "subject".
Materialism is the denial of the investment, and materialism is the denial of recovery. I think that the relationship between "God and humans" also looks different from that perspective. "When a modern man manipulates nature, he actually sees it from the throne of God. Here, in effect, humans are standing in the position of God." (Nobuyoshi Kusakabe, " Heidegar and Metaphysics ”Akiyo Shobo P.90)
It is difficult to deny the" self (subject) "itself once established. In Western Europe, that effort has been continued since classical Greece, and in India, the solution was achieved by the fusion of Atman and Brahman. It was in the Meiji era that the "philosophical terms" of "subjective" and "objective" were created in Japan. Only about 150 years have passed. The phrase "that would be (your) subjective opinion" still sounds "negative" (how would they feel if this were translated into Western)?
Death
But I think it's the only thing that irradiates life in reverse, I can't see my life from here, Death as something that can be seen from the other side seems to have come to me with the interest that the structure of life itself cannot really be clarified unless it is properly grasped. (P.184)
No human is really dead, and as much as it is not really dead, it can be another person, a close relative or a friend, but the death of a friend is regarded as one's own death. It causes something like sadness. Since the dying friend is not really dead, it is supposed to reflect something like a regret to others. The possibility of being able to really die is to create death anyway, and if you misunderstand that creating it as a fact rather than as a metaphor, you will commit suicide or die. However, Blanchot is a kind of metaphor, and when it comes to creating death, the concept of creating it is unclear and unclear, but death is mixed with imagination and I appear here as a perfect one. I think that is the interpretation that it is important. (P.184-185)
I have never read Blanchot (probably). I will quote Mr. Shinkichi Kusakabe's words.
In fact, only death can reveal true kindness. Because that alone can destroy subjectivity. The "kindness" and "love" spoken within the framework of subjectivity do not truly convince us. (Nobuyoshi Kusakabe, "Heidegger and Metaphysics", Akiyo Shobo P.77-78)
It seems natural to me, but disappears. Only when I die. However, a human being who has a "subject" seeks "immortality" and "eternal life" and tries to leave the existence of "self", the proof that he lived, and "history" until after his death. And I think that "what I created" and "what I externalized" will remain after my death (I also think so (sweat), though I can't confirm it).
The problem of brain death and the problem of plant humans may also be considered from here. Where does it come from to judge "life or death" by whether they have "ego", that is, "consciousness", or to think about "human beings (dignity as?)".
Mr. Yoshimoto died in 2012. His work still remains. The letters in it certainly represent a part of Mr. Yoshimoto. But that is not Mr. Yoshimoto himself. This book is a collection of dialogues, but the words are "reconstructed (interpreted)" by the reader (as well as "history"). The digitality (partiality) of a character is considered to be "one whole" together with the reader's experience and situation, society and culture, and the reader's "self". is.
The reason why I created the concept of "the original image of the masses" is, after all, a kind of danger of the concept of class, or it is included in the concept of class. There is a sense of problem that the masses themselves may be the ones who move themselves by rising toward the knowledge or being included in the knowledge. If we don't constantly incorporate the "original image of the masses" in a different place, there will be no other way but to close the problems of knowledge and ideas. I think I thought so. (P.190)
As you can see from the present, it is no longer possible to think of the masses who are not surrounded by the written words. It's becoming more and more like that, so I can't think of a concrete image anymore. However, it is like a prototype that should be preserved, and unless the prototype is constantly incorporated, knowledge and ideas will be closed. (P.191, above)
I think that "knowledge" and "character", "self" and "concept" are "the same thing". increase. Mr. Yoshimoto was aware of the "danger" that was "inclusive". I think that the "sensitivity" and "emotionality" of "poetry" and "Japanese" made it possible, and conversely, "writing" and "characters themselves" made it difficult to solve. it might be.
The media and now
That's why it happened because I was cornered, that is, the remaining 5% problem was overwhelmed by 100% problem. Isn't it the general appearance of progressive or left-wing political parties and intellectuals to barely find a theme by doing so? (P.152)
Recently, I have been watching TV for a long time. Is it a wide show (recently called an "information program"), a drama, or a quiz program? All of them are on every channel. Even though a traffic accident is just a property damage accident, it will be broadcast nationwide. He says, "It was the elderly who were driving." Is the number of elderly driver accidents increasing? It's only natural that the number of elderly people is increasing. My elderly mother lives alone in a rural area. The population is steadily decreasing, especially among young people, and one store nearby has closed. There are railroads and buses, but the number is steadily decreasing. Besides, the elderly cannot get on public transport with heavy shopping luggage. It means, "I have to drive while I can drive." Theft cases are also often mentioned. "The image of the security camera in the store" that says "I took the product away without putting the money in the box at the unmanned sales office" is played. Maybe it's much more urban than where I live. Images of "security cameras" such as motorcycles stolen from the yard and tires stolen are often shown. Well, it can be said that it is a "security camera that is not security", but if it is clearly in the camera, the police should arrest it. Even so, "the victim is consulting with the police" (laughs). Why did the photographer bring (sell?) The footage to the TV station?
I feel that the unconscious isn't rough. Consciousness can be controlled by us, but the unconsciousness that cannot be controlled is not disturbed by the younger generation . Because we are so rough, we do things that we don't think so, or we end up in unexpected ways. (P.257)
But the fact that the vertical direction is nothing or thin is a good characteristic. Isn't it true that there is no such thing? There is really no verticality in the human mental state. However, the reason why that verticality can be achieved is that the unconscious part is so devastated that it creates verticality. If you want to make something vertical, on the contrary, you can make the unconscious on the consciousness, so it is not necessary that the unconscious is so rough that you can't help yourself and the verticality is made. If you want to create verticality, it would be more true if you create it on the stream of consciousness. (P.257-258)
As for the impressions of the student movement, hippies, Angura theater companies, avant-garde (arts, parties), etc. in the latter half of the 1980s, I feel like "I think so." The word "new humanity" was selected for the 1986 New Words and Popular Words Awards. It was an era when people who were looking sideways at student activism (called "non-poly") began to take on the role of society. Apathetic and emotional air was covering society. I think that young people were more "sarcastic" than "heavy" and "dark", and superficially "light" and "bright". That creates the "bubble (1986-1991)". It's like a reproduction of the "high growth period". The bubble burst (1991-1993), and unfortunately, no bubble or high economic miracle has occurred until now.
What the media says is that the reality is different when you consider your own salary and your parents' salary.
Capital pursues profits in times of crisis. It is said that the wealth of top capitalists (top companies such as GAFA or GAFAM and their founders) has more than doubled during the two years of this new Corona epidemic. Stock prices have continued to hit record highs in both Japan and the United States. It plummeted around the time of the situation in Ukraine, but the basic structure remains the same. As anyone who has invested in stocks knows, the long-term high and low prices of the stock price do not lead to "profit", but the short-term "wave (up and down)" in it is "profit". Will be. Stock certificates and tansu savings in the safe are not profitable. Assets continue to grow, apart from the ups and downs of the stock market as a whole.
Kohei Saito's "rareness" or "relative rarity" "differentiation" produces "profit" (though I don't think it's Marxian at all). The "brand," "rareness," and "difference" of tap water and "Rokko water," "Hida Takayama water," or "Perrier" (although I have never drank any of them) generate profits, and "water is just." I have instilled the awareness that "it is not." Both "water" and "tea" have become "pet bottles" that you buy at "vending machines". The aforementioned "water has already reached the stage of producing exchange value" (P.271).
"Unconsciousness is not rough" is probably said compared to young people who were doing student activism, but on the contrary, I seem to be controlled even unconsciously. I feel like. It may be the same thing, but I feel that the unconscious world is being controlled and there is no gap for chance. It seems to me that I've given up before I did it. Most things, including parents, are already in control. School, TV, and comics are like computer games. Under such circumstances, it seems that the most uncontrollable thing for them is their "body" (government, discipline, "self-consideration" Foucault). Your body makes "unforgivable" changes. I have a fever, an erection, and menstrual cramps. In the past, it was "natural" for children to have a fever and for adults to catch colds, but now it is "Ogoto", which is a difficult task. Parents hurriedly searched for pediatrics online, and adults were depressed because they didn't have a fever, saying, "I can't take a break from work today. If I take a break, my colleagues will be inconvenienced ..." I'm confused. The same goes for "erection" and "romance." You will be guided to incorporate what you see on TV and in novels into the "nature of society." Anything that deviates even a little from that is not a target of "effort and understanding" even though it is a target of "mercy". Isn't the "aggression" that appears on SNS before emotions such as "anger"? When will the new Corona be incorporated into "nature"?
The manual "When this happens, do this" will be prepared more and more. "Inefficient" things like "thinking" are no longer necessary. However, just as "erection" and "romance" often deviate from the "social manual", "variants" always appear in the "new corona". The manual becomes more and more "complex". To the extent that no one can remember or think. Similar to academic "knowledge" such as "science".
If the shooting of the former Prime Minister occurs, the media will take it all at once, and a person who calls himself an "expert" will give his opinion, raise the public's consciousness, and take a certain direction. Politicians and entertainers comment on it, and the entire manual is prepared and strengthened. A manual for security and family restaurants, and a manual for consciousness.
The Communist Party and the Liberal Democratic Party have the same thing, so there's nothing like this. It can not be helped. However, I feel that Japanese people, including themselves, cannot basically do something like a revolution in the true sense of the word. In the form that the sushi is the most natural (laughs), I feel that if I leave it to nature, it will become a sushi and eventually that will happen. (P.131-132)
The biggest manual is "law". A law is made by making "5% problem into 100% problem". Obviously, it is a law (manual) for "minorities", but that imposes "new restrictions" on "95%" of people. For example, for the minority who die in a car accident, all car riders are now obliged to fasten their seat belts. On the other hand, the “raise of the minimum wage” that 95% of people need cannot keep up with the rise in prices. The marriage system itself is more important than the "joint custody" and "marital surname" that the media is making noise now, but the Diet will not argue against the marriage system itself. The view on the fundamental issue is the same for the LDP and the Communist Party.
I think we are left-wingers, but we can't say Makoto Oda or Yotaro Konaka anymore. It's already happening. It's all the same as what the Liberal Democratic Party's Agricultural Cooperative Deputy Otsuan says. Well, so is the ecologist. It's getting the same. The reason is that the concept of socialism would not be possible without the dismantling of the nation. (P.147-148)
The other day, the Argentine demonstration was in the news. Was it reported in commercial broadcasting? It seems that large-scale demonstrations and strikes are being held all over the world, but if you only watch terrestrial broadcasting and major newspapers in Japan, you will not be able to tell. In Japan, there aren't even demonstrations, probably because the unconscious isn't rough. On the contrary, it is reported that the cause of the soaring prices in Japan is the strike of Argentine workers. Half a century ago, the consciousness that "the labor movement is terrorism" has been revived.
When something goes wrong, the people are "weak." Now, the drama of "Lawyer's thing" is being broadcast again. There was a line (I don't remember well) like "Why don't you talk to a lawyer when something goes wrong, not a last resort? The law is there to protect you." Should I appeal to the judiciary when a problem arises, or make a law through a member of parliament or a deputy? Isn't the nation "reliant" and "conflicting and pursuing"? Is the problem the person's "individual" problem?
If so, unless there is a logic to deny capitalism, it's no wonder if it's said that capital will pay ten times as much money. It will be a problem for that person. No, it's not that person's problem, if it's a problem that the masses are being cornered by capital, it's a problem of capitalism itself. So, if the problem of capitalism itself can be solved, I have to overcome the problems of organized workers, socialist progressive parties, and socialist parties, if the problems of the masses themselves cannot be overcome. In other words, if we cannot be independent from them, we think that the masses cannot directly face and counter capitalism. (P.148-149)
By turning the problem of "society (structure)" into the problem of "individual", "the rule of law" and "equality under the law" Is established. In other words, the rule of law is a "capitalist system." Western "individuals" can "coexist" with other individuals (others) but cannot "reconcile". Based on the "struggle against all people" (Hobbes), there is "rule of law" as a way to "reconcile" rather than "reconcile". As a result, everything is considered a "personal problem". "Parent gacha" is probably "sweet" that Westerners do not understand.
Conversely, it can be said that Japan still has a "sweet structure". Is it unique to Japan? If I look at it as "non-Western", I think it's in many countries. Western Europe has a "people's history" in which it is ruled by other countries and it overthrows its government. Japan only taught at school about the history of being attacked by the United States at the end of the war and then dominated (though something might have happened at the end of the Jomon period).
"Japan is a client state of the United States," in a sense, I thought so. When President Biden came to Japan, I saw the endless lines of security guards, and it seemed to me that the client state welcomed the leaders of the suzerains. Even if Mr. Kishida goes to the United States, I don't think there is such a landscape. However, the relationship between the client state and the suzerain is basically "economic relations". But science, wisdom, law, elections, democracy, individuals, logic, etc. may be governed by our "thoughts themselves". As long as "living" is "economy," capitalism is not a political system, but our "way of life" and "way of thinking."
It's been almost 30 years since this book was published. Nevertheless, there are essential and forward-looking content that makes you think that it has just been published. Will Takaaki Yoshimoto be accepted in the "world" (that is, "developed countries")? If so, it feels like his "bad side". I would like to take that good side as an "original image".
I think that such an extrinsic thing will not destroy the human race. Biologists are familiar with it, but when the human species perishes, it perishes internally. (P.244)
The sound of the wind and the light of the moon are not words. And yet, it makes me cry because I feel like I'm receiving it, as if it were a language experience. Therefore, I feel that it is extremely sensitive in terms of sensory words. (P.298)
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