Comments on: First Week of Research http://blog.daniel.ie/2010/04/14/first-week-of-research/ Wed, 18 May 2011 11:24:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Digitalcog http://blog.daniel.ie/2010/04/14/first-week-of-research/comment-page-1/#comment-5549 Digitalcog Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:18:45 +0000 http://xn--ick4b7a7i.net/wordpress/?p=690#comment-5549 <p>I found the article appalling! The guy doesn't get anything and sees everything though the lens of a recklessly individualist gaijin. Every observation he makes has to be filtered through and distorted by his own ego.</p> <p>He seems to want to hate Japan for not conforming to his individualist law of the jungle upbringing, but at the same time cant bring himself to leave as he knows at the back of his head that he'll have to face into all the tragedies of the commons and uncivilised behavior that combine to make the standard of living in the West so much lower.</p> <p>There's a sort of chronic depression, cynicism and inconsistency about this guy that in some regards makes him even worse than Debito. He doesn't know what he wants and is paranoid about his life wasting away, yet blames the world for these things.</p> <p>In short, he can't see anything. He is one of the unfortunate majority of Westerners that have been so polluted and clogged with selfish individualism from a young age that no amount of exposure to civilised society and elegant, deep culture can unblind him.</p> <p>That aside, glad to see that you don't suffer from the same ailments and are enjoying the utopia!</p> I found the article appalling! The guy doesn’t get anything and sees everything though the lens of a recklessly individualist gaijin. Every observation he makes has to be filtered through and distorted by his own ego.

He seems to want to hate Japan for not conforming to his individualist law of the jungle upbringing, but at the same time cant bring himself to leave as he knows at the back of his head that he’ll have to face into all the tragedies of the commons and uncivilised behavior that combine to make the standard of living in the West so much lower.

There’s a sort of chronic depression, cynicism and inconsistency about this guy that in some regards makes him even worse than Debito. He doesn’t know what he wants and is paranoid about his life wasting away, yet blames the world for these things.

In short, he can’t see anything. He is one of the unfortunate majority of Westerners that have been so polluted and clogged with selfish individualism from a young age that no amount of exposure to civilised society and elegant, deep culture can unblind him.

That aside, glad to see that you don’t suffer from the same ailments and are enjoying the utopia!

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