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that's already an extremely loaded framing from the point of view of an individualized society. For a lot of people there is meaning in taking care, and listeni
by Barrin92 2y ago
that's already an extremely loaded framing from the point of view of an individualized society. For a lot of people there is meaning in taking care, and listening to their elders.
There's quite a bit of misfortune too in communities where your old family members are treated with the dignity of a used sofa cushion and shoved into the nursing home out of sight out of mind so you can self actualize and have a lot of fun.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoThey’re clearly talking about a political class of elderly, not one’s own family.
- Barrin92 2y agosame concept. Japan is a nation of people who share a common bond. Thinking your responsibility ends at your houses fence is already adopting an atomized, American view. When Fukushima happened there were elderly volunteer groups who demanded that they be sent to clean up the waste to spare the youth, not just their own grandkids, everyone's. It's why when an earthquake levels a city there's no panic and looting in the streets. There is a whole national responsibility from young to old and the other way. This transactional language of talking about old people as a political class, of support as "subsidies" is already being stuck in an entirely different economized, weird mindset.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoI am talking from experience. I love my family and my elders and will spend everything for them. I don't have the same love for random elders I'm unrelated to even slightly who basically occupy all the top spots and jobs and ensure that young people have no chance at ascending.