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I can't comment on the societal changes of post-WWII Japan, but I see what you've described playing out right now in the US. There is a lot to dislike about Ame
by kough 11y ago
I can't comment on the societal changes of post-WWII Japan, but I see what you've described playing out right now in the US. There is a lot to dislike about American "traditional values" (like, I don't know, racism? sexism? tons of things) but as more and more people lose these traditional values and the social networks that came with them (e.g., church), I think we'll see this play out the same way in the US. It's already starting -- there was a great article in the Atlantic a few months ago that's well worth reading (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/white-working-class-poverty/424341/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/white-wo...).
- pjlegato 11y agoAny human-made system is bound to have both good and bad in it -- including all new propositions for replacing traditional systems. Humans aren't perfect and never will be. The problem is that the baby is too often thrown out with the bathwater. Specific criticisms of specific areas, however valid they may be, are almost imperceptably broadened, bit by bit, year by year, until they become categorical condemnations of "traditional society" ("the Man") in general, no longer in regard to any specific thing but as a generic reified abstraction to be combatted.
- kough 11y agoHuh, it's almost isomorphic to the problem of old code: total rewrite, or careful maintenance and update? One's a lot sexier and more interesting for the people doing the work.