His personal experience of dropping out of the rat race of corporatism and the general Japanese experience sounds like American hippy boomer attitudes. First of all we see Asian overdone work ethic. Then maybe this is just a phenomenon like we had ourselves moving from the land to the city. Hard work used to be natural dusk till dawn or in factories later. Eventually Maslow's hierarchy of physical needs really has been fulfilled. Eventually something will happen and civilization will collapse but why rush it? Now times are easy. Let it be. Americans perhaps maintain the "pursuit of happiness" as core to their being for uniquely American reasons while Old World people's quickly work through that phase after achieving social stasis at a certain modern level. In the old world populations are more homogenous so individualism is not a factor. One takes more cues from others. In America constant immigration creates lack of consensus on identity in the group, society and this drives one to seek personal identity through achievements, hobbies. I imagine all of East Asia will become like Japan, even Europeans. Meanwhile an Indian genius tech CEO immigrant will revamp global reality from silicon valley effectively causing global turmoil through the next big thing like AI. It only takes one man to change the world. Firearms stopped the mongols and spread from China to Europe, allowing the reconquest a, conquest of the new world. But without Genghis khan there would have been no incentive to create such weapons. The drone war in Ukraine is like Terminator film. Eventually reality gets changed, upended but meanwhile almost all of us are content to live as always, unsuspecting.
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