Progressing Toward Decay ｜ 2⧸13⧸23
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Summary
The New York Times generated a bit of controversy this week by writing an article about a Yale economics professor by the name of Yusaki Narita, who has become infamous in his home country of Japan by suggesting that the best way that country can avoid its looming demographic crisis is to have its older generation commit ritual suicide.
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The New York Times generated a bit of controversy this week
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by writing an article about a Yale economics professor
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The economics professor has now become infamous
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by suggesting that the best way that country can avoid
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is to have its older generation commit ritual suicide.
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And you can understand why this would be incredibly controversial.
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He's suggesting that a couple generations of people
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the grisly disembowelment ritual of the samurai.
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But the New York Times is more than happy to embrace this language
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because it lets them address an issue that they really want to address,
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Young people are just not getting married and are not having children.
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and this is having a devastating impact on their civilization.
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Most modern affluent countries are watching their birth rates crater as time goes on.
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But the effect does seem more pronounced in Japan.
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And of course, Japan is also famous for not embracing one of the solutions
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And this is why Japan is so often the target of these progressive articles.
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They desperately want to force the solution onto Japan
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So many of these modern welfare states were built on the idea of continuous growth,
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on the idea that you would always have a larger, younger generation
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But these cratering birth rates are causing a serious problem with that math equation.
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And because Japan would rather protect its culture and its way of life,
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it hasn't embraced the Western solution of simply importing more people
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in the hopes that this will buoy those welfare systems.
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Which means the only way that they can make the math work
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removing a group that they see as a total liability on this state.
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But sadly, Japan is far from the only nation embracing euthanasia
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Canada is now becoming famous for its very aggressive policy
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of eliminating undesirables inside its own nation.
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The country has killed thousands of its own citizens
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and has pushed aggressively at every opportunity to expand the program.
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Canada is now pushing euthanasia onto the mentally ill
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because they can't do things like pay rent or afford food.
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The notoriously polite country is now pushing this onto people like military veterans,
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in one case suggesting that a veteran who the state could no longer afford to care for
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You can even find passages on Canadian healthcare sites
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where the country laments that it cannot properly explain to indigenous people
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Apparently, there's a real problem that in some of these indigenous cultures,
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the language doesn't have the proper words to explain
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that the state must murder the elderly in order to stay fiscally solvent.
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Canada is a country that reads land acknowledgments at the opening of every public event
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to show that they honor the indigenous people from whom they took the land they're standing on,
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but also does a lot of complaining that it can't properly articulate to these indigenous people
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why they have to wipe out generations of their elders.
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Obviously Japan and Canada are two very different cultures,
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but for some reason the modern solutions are always the same.
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Either open your doors to unrestricted mass migration,
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or start wiping out your elderly and others that are deemed a burden to the state.
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And let's be honest, it's always going to be both of these at the end of the day.
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Democrats in the media laughed long and hard at Sarah Palin
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and her suggestion that government healthcare would end in death panels.
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But surprise, surprise, just a little over a decade later,
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this seems to be the only solution that any of these progressives can come up with.
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just a few weeks ago a Norwegian professor caused some outrage
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for suggesting that brain-dead women should be used as surrogates
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for couples who can't biologically have children
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in a journal of theoretical, medical, and bioethics.
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By the way, almost anyone who describes themselves as an ethicist
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is a complete sociopath, and you should avoid them at all costs.
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They should be discarded, probably locked away in some kind of prison.
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Obviously the suggestion is horrific and deeply dehumanizing.
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It conjures horrific sci-fi imagery like The Matrix,
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where humans are artificially grown and harvested by uncaring robots,
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or something like the later novels in the Dune series,
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where grotesque aliens use drugged-up females of their species
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Now plenty of people are going to have a valid objection,
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doesn't really paint a picture of what's going on.
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But I'll remind you that these people are in prestigious positions.
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One is a Yale professor, the other is being published in a medical journal,
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and with the horrific stuff that is actually being put into practice
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it's hard to pretend that these are just wild theories
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that we're never going to see manifest themselves in the real world.
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well, this is far from the first time that life has ever been cheap.
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Many ancient empires and even relatively modern states
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did horrific stuff and treated humans as if they really didn't matter.
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They were more than happy to sacrifice large groups of people
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I think the reason that these more recent examples are so shocking
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is that they exist in the context of a modern promise of infinite progress,
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and they threaten to kind of burst that bubble.
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can't continue to innovate their way out of our current problems.
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Modern civilizations abandoned the divine and the mysterious
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with the promise that reason, quantification, and efficiency
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but now the ugly truth is coming into full view.
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has robbed modern people of that which drove their ancestors to greatness.
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that accompanies the massification and homogenization
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The miracle of efficiency that massive modern organizations promised
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but few people understood the true cost of this process
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Now that these modern monoliths of state and capital
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have reached the limit of their carrying capacity,
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Something like motherhood loses any aspect of the sacred
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A useful widget that will allow regime-favored groups
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a chance to produce the simulacrum of a family.
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as a wise council honored for their prior sacrifices
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for the civilization and heeded due to their collective experience.
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so the state can balance its ledger for one more cycle,
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stave off the inevitable decay for just a little longer,
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destroy a little bit of what it means to be human
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And this is why these faceless, soulless forces
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to turn to the good, the beautiful, and the true.
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They only have the ability to crush the final ounce
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will be those that were able to turn their backs
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