low wages, uneven work-life balance. hivemind society. majority accepting of authority and hardly question it.
basically it's already declined. the more i look into the history, the more i look back on my time living there, and the more i look at state of Japanese society i' more and more convinced that:
post-ww2 until the 90's was a massive economic and social experiment. to see if one could build up and then tear down a society to the point of stagnation, but held up perpetually (at least as far as we can tell) - the ultimate slave plantation. the results of which are now being exported or trialled around the world in various ways.
i think japan is one of the prime models for the future western societies.
the few good products of culture that come out of Japan are creative outlets of the people there who recognise the decay of their surroundings and are expressing it to us (either deliberately or subconsciously).
low wages, uneven work-life balance. hivemind society. majority accepting of authority and hardly question it.
basically it's already declined. the more i look into the history, the more i look back on my time living there, and the more i look at state of Japanese society i' more and more convinced that:
post-ww2 until the 90's was a massive economic and social experiment. to see if one could build up and then tear down a society to the point of stagnation, but held up perpetually (at least as far as we can tell) - the ultimate slave plantation. the results of which are now being exported or trialled around the world in various ways.
i think japan is one of the prime models for the future western societies.
the few good products of culture that come out of Japan are creative outlets of the people there who recognise the decay of their surroundings and are expressing it to us (either deliberately or subconsciously).