Very popular drama
It seems that it was very popular. It was interesting to watch.
When I saw the first episode, I immediately thought, "Koi desu! ~Yankee-kun and White Cane Girl~” (2021, NTV). Sugisaki Hana plays a strong amblyopia girl. In that work, the main character's vision was expressed with a strong blur. As I watched the work, I joked, "Next time, I might express hearing impairments without sound." Therefore, this drama expected "there is no sound", but was different. I always have a voice, and the theme song "Subtitle" of "Official HIGE DANdism" is impressive and still plays in my head.
BGM was also used in the climactic sign language scene (final episode), but I wonder what it would be like. Certainly, it is a "common love drama" except for the "hearing impairment". "Okimari's love disorder" is "deafness". Same with "Romeo and Juliet". Official HIGE DAN dism's song seems to be more suitable for "young people's romance" rather than "silent" (although I don't know the lyrics).
Muting the climactic sign language scene to silence would have completely changed the overall impression of each item. And I feel that the theme of "silent" has become clearer.
Another characteristic is that "only good people come out". There are a lot of dramas like that these days. What a good person does with good intentions gets in the way of the main character's romance. It's not ``preferring good and punishing evil,'' nor is it ``looking like a bad person but actually being a good person.'' Oji Suzuka is "too nice", and I was worried if I could draw his true intentions. It would be unbearable if a woman asked for such "kindness" (laughs).
What are words for?
I was more interested in the subject of "words" than "deafness". Because the composition of thoughts is raised. "What are words for? Why were they born and why do they continue to exist? Why do multiple languages exist on this one planet?" This is because it is an issue of Christian culture (Jewish culture, Western European culture) since then.
Being unable to interact with people is not the same as losing language (aphasia). When I am thrown into the culture of a language I don't know, I feel like I have lost the language when I don't "get it".
I think you get the same feeling when you are thrown into a conversation with someone who uses sign language. Words are not just sounds. I don't mean that facial expressions and gestures are important, but that sign language is exactly the same as spoken language.
How about "characters" when neither sign language nor spoken language are understood? In this drama, it seems that writing (memo) and smartphone "transcription software ("UD Talk) )” is active. Technology is necessary to convey "thoughts". And letters will require more skill because there is no intonation, accent, speed, and gestures, gestures, and facial expressions. "Communication technology". Words, and "communication" itself, are social matters. It is culturally determined. Facial expressions and gestures also vary from culture to culture. If the culture is different, the possibility of being transmitted is low.
What about people who grew up in the same culture, speaking the same language, receiving the same education, and watching the same TV dramas? You probably think that you can't understand each other, or that you might be able to understand each other, but it's very difficult. Even in this drama, I think there was a line like "excuse", "Isn't it natural that we can't understand each other because we were born and raised in different environments?"
I am keenly aware of the inability to understand each other even between parents and children and married couples who have been together for decades. Rather, I even feel that there are more “differences” and “differences”. As long as I am ``I (ego, subject)'', I think ``I cannot understand'' with ``you (thou, others, others)''.
Do you feel sorry for people with disabilities?
Although the aforementioned "UD Talk" is also a "communication tool," various communication tools have been created. Have you come to understand "me and you" through them? Suicides of junior high and high school students that are thought to be caused by SNS, various accusations and blame battles, mutual surveillance under the name of security cameras... The "gap between me and you" is becoming more diverse, and the gap is only deepening. , it seems to me that it has not decreased.
There are many ``disabled people's tools'' such as hearing aids, prosthetic legs or spectacles. Without them, people with disabilities are thought to be "poor beings" who cannot live like "non-disabled people".
"Criteria for able-bodied people" are determined. Eyesight and hearing tests are performed, and glasses or hearing aids are recommended if the criteria are not met. Visual acuity tests are increasing not only for myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism, but also for color blindness, dynamic visual acuity, and depth measurement. If they are far from the standard value, "disease" is suspected, but what is the standard and "normal value"?
My view is different from yours. No, I don't know if it's different or not. An eye test will not tell you how Picasso sees and how Monet sees. I think it's a common experience that the person next to you can see it, but you can't see it.
How it looks depends on the culture. Orientals are sensitive to facial differences between Asians. Modern people, Heian period people, and Jomon people will surely look different.
The same goes for hearing and smell. The sensation of pain will also vary from person to person. Then pain, sorrow, suffering, pleasure, happiness, etc. would also be different. If you think that you can compare and quantify your senses and emotions, isn't it simply an arrogance of ``using yourself as a standard''?
Somewhat Handicapped
I broke my right arm about three weeks ago. I still have my right arm fixed, so it takes me many times longer to type on my computer. At the time of the fracture, I couldn't even lie down and sleep, and my right arm hurts every time I move. I realized that the human body is connected. When you move your left hand, your right arm moves involuntarily in response. Over time, your body will remember how to move your left hand so that your right hand doesn't hurt, and how to move your legs when walking. (Returning to the original)”.
Sou is a "halfway disabled" who has lost his hearing since graduating from high school. The drama also focuses on the difference between those who were born deaf and those who were born with disabilities. When you can't do what you were able to do until now (in extreme cases, until yesterday), you will be trapped in various emotions such as impatience, frustration, and frustration. As a result, you may become suicidal. Sou is Tsumugi's existence, and has been able to escape from being stuck in the past and look to the present (and the future).
"Listening" is not something that you can do with effort. maybe.
"Can do" is the adnominal form of "Dek". "Coming out" means that something that has never existed before appears. In addition, "possible" is the kanji reading corresponding to "atautuberu", which is a new Chinese word in the Meiji period ("Nihon Kokugo Daijiten"). Both terms are relatively recent. By the way, the word 'effort' is generally used in the sense of 'effort' after the Meiji era.
If there was no such word, it means that there was no such concept, or at least no such awareness (I don't know if I didn't feel that way).
The basis of this way of thinking is the idea that ``becoming able to do things with effort'' and ``development'' is ``a good thing''. . It means that "today should (should) be better than yesterday," and that "history (should, should) progress in one direction (linearly)." Even if "history repeats itself", it is (should, should) rise in a spiral. In Hegelian terms, this is the 'realization (process) of God's will' and 'history'. If you call it "evolution", it is Darwin's orthodox theory of evolution. New is right. Children are more correct than parents (laughs).
I am old enough to be called an old man. As Chizuko Ueno says, "getting old" means becoming handicapped in today's society. What was possible yesterday is not possible today. You can't expect to be able to do that tomorrow. Rather, I live in anxiety that I may not be able to do anything more than today, and when I will not be able to do other things.
The Illusion of the Disabled
Discrimination, sympathy, and pity for people with disabilities are based on the idea (ideal, ideology) that ``human beings should be equal''. , assumptions)”. However, each person is “born and raised differently”. And the "individual" must be independent and free. How can we balance “respect for the individual (human rights)” and “equality for all”? The modern West has explored in many ways. "Equality under the law (or human rights)" is a variant of "Equality before God" and is not effective, but in any case, by assuming "something other than ourselves (or authority)" For the time being, I'm trying to achieve both. It is the assumption of "the (absolute) objective" against "themselves" or "(absolute) subjectivity". That is the "standard".
Various values such as visual acuity "1.0 or more", hearing "30db or less", blood pressure "130 or less", etc. are artificially determined standards. I say "artificial" because it can change while pretending to be objective (scientific), and it has actually been changed. If the standards are not met, action will be taken. For blood pressure, treatment such as medication is required, for eyesight, glasses, and for hearing, hearing aids are recommended.
How do you judge "normal: abnormal", "healthy: disabled", "healthy: sick", etc.? There are no absolute standards for them. A and B are "absolutely" different. However, in modern society, it is "objective numbers" that determine "winners and losers" and "better or worse". In other words, it is based on the fact that if the person is hired, it will be profitable. It doesn't matter what the degree of disability or illness is.
When the blood pressure standard was cut from 160 to 130, tens of millions of people became "sick" overnight. But most of them work the next day and beyond. Pharmaceutical companies and doctors profited from devaluation. Those who failed the criteria were forced to continue taking the medicine from the next day. That's what standards are.
Technology that makes you happy
Technology has helped bring hospitals and disabled people up to that standard, and will continue to develop it. This is very important for sick and disabled people. I am still taking painkillers for this fracture. But painkillers don't fix my bones. I think that the misconception that medicine cures illness is connected to the misconception that it makes people with disabilities happy, just like glasses fix eyes and hearing aids fix ears.
And the idea of prioritizing the development of technology is a subjective arrogance similar to saying that modern humans are superior to Jomon people, or humans are superior to dogs and cats. I think so.
Your body will heal your illness. Including the feeling of pain, that is what Illiichi calls "the art of living." At the same time, it is a technology that makes you happy. What Jomon people and dogs and cats had, but modern people have lost is the technology.
Even though I take painkillers, my arms tingle and sometimes hurt. Each letter you type may slow the healing of your bones. Is it important to type one letter now, or is it important to do something else? It's not for the medicine to decide, nor for the doctor to decide. But I don't seem to have the "technology" to decide that.
