Cripes!

Some good stuff here.

Hmm . . . maybe this is why so many women are besotted with Cardi B and Beyonce and similar entertainers: they’re the missing female protagonist in our popular stories. They’re the women who finally get to overcome resistance on their way to a larger selfhood.

I like what you’re saying here.

That and we expect a reward for that weak-ass “gift.”

Really?

Your power matters even more.

Yes.

This is because nobody is being honest with one another or themselves about what they truly want and like.

That last paragraph is a beauty! Bull’s-eye.

We all wish we were Linda Ellerbe.

Can’t really blame them after that whole Commodore Perry thing.

Maybe that means we have to simplify our lifestyle as a nation.

That makes me think the root problem might be that our way of life is so voracious that we can’t sustain it on our native stocks. To keep the ravenous machinery of capitalism and the state going, we have to “import” millions of outsiders, some legally, some not. We keep ourselves from thinking too closely about what…

Good for you!

Formalin and some kind of resin.

Or they’ll reduce the number of old people to a sustainable level at the current population of taxable workers and be a much smaller country with a much smaller burden of social services for the elderly. The Guardian’s story obscures the salient issue here: the problem of a declining birth rate is that they’ve got all…

Maybe it’s not just an economic issue for them. Maybe it’s bigger and more transcendent than that.

Righteously argued.

I see your point, but maybe this isn’t something the state can fix? Maybe the Japanese have detected something apocalyptic in modern life the rest of us can’t smell yet and have decided that kind of life isn’t worth furthering?