tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post8898213542627993594..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: "Shutting Themselves In"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-5108905674668544942014-01-20T14:40:11.611-05:002014-01-20T14:40:11.611-05:00There are cases like this in the United States, th...There are cases like this in the United States, though they don't get much attention. As in Japan, the school experience is a major culprit in the trend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-79172068839437761482014-01-20T10:07:40.771-05:002014-01-20T10:07:40.771-05:00With half the population of the U.S. shoved into a...With half the population of the U.S. shoved into an area the size of California, they'd have to be medieval to survive. There will also be casualties in a society like that.<br /><br />I could not live there. I'd have to leave. At least here if you can't stand the crowds you can move into a rural shack - and I've seen people do it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-41120229586026512642014-01-20T00:24:14.173-05:002014-01-20T00:24:14.173-05:00Japanese Asperger's?
An American once explai...Japanese Asperger's? <br /><br />An American once explained to me that Japan's problems are due to a (natural) medieval society being forced to be a(n unnatural) modern Western-like one, blowback from WWII.Ecgberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-60793859818627646412014-01-19T20:28:17.193-05:002014-01-19T20:28:17.193-05:00That was scary.That was scary.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-27773920808440235722014-01-19T20:05:53.018-05:002014-01-19T20:05:53.018-05:00The hikikomori remind me of the "beautiful on...The hikikomori remind me of the "beautiful ones" in the infamous John Calhoun Mouse Utopia Experiment:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM<br /><br />You don't need overpopulation to destroy a society--all you need to do is create a system where people can no longer fulfill their natural roles. <br /><br />Do the mice in these experiments predict our own future?TroperAnoreply@blogger.com