Man can not know everything.

I think Hayek was sicked of Darwinism after all. Hayek came to Japan three times . And he debated with famous anti-Darwinism ecologist "Kinji Imanishi".　Hayek confessed " I am not Darwinist" Imanishi said "Why don't you deny Darwinism same as Marx and Freud"? He avoided reply.
I have already got bored with "Darwinism "and "selfish gene(modern social Darwinism)"

These questions can not be answered. Ikki Kita

(Left image; February 26 Incident coup de'tat in 1936)
To tell the truth, Kita is one of the most important persons to recognize Japanese modernism. His thinking embodied difficulty of Europeanism in asia. Although I don't adore his thinking and don't have so much interest with his works.
In Japan,"Ikki Kita"problem is social taboo.Mass media wouldn't deal with him.
He was executed as the mastermind of rebellion in 1937.This was February 26 incident.
To recognize Japan, Kita may be more important than Lady Murasaki.
By the way, Kita came to be as if a channeler with his wife "Suzu"at the end. He became a lotus sutra mystic

When Sarin gas attack on the tokyo subway happened in 1995, "Shoko Asahara" reminded me of Ikki Kita.

Social Darwinism is a Hard Problem.

(Above image;swallow's nest canon IXY digital 900IS)
Social Darwinism is a ideology, sense of value,and tough world view.
On the other hand,the appearance of this theory looked as if positive,scientific by pretending biology.
In fact, social evolutionism had appeared earlier than Darwinism. Harbert Spencer made up social Darwinism as if positive studies.
A Social Darwinism is very difficult to be proved it's false point. Because this theory often use selfjustifying tautology. Economist Hayek didn't applying Darwinism to economics. Because he thought Natural selection is obviously different from cultural evolution.
He thought the merit of free market system does not always depend on competitiveness too. Market system is based on complex tacit customs , and moreover it is based on far different scale from biological evolution. His studies itself was based on social evolutionism. But his evolutionism is almost same as empiricism or pragmatism. Man can only get wisdom from trial and error.His evolutionism is a method not answers .After all we absolutely will not recognize what is evolution.Because we cannot predict how unexpected twist will happen. He believed free market system can only enable people to get free(not always competitive) activity in open society.

Socialism is a social darwinism.

(left image; Ikki Kita　Social philosopher １８８３－１９３７）
Japanese often misunderstand social Darwinism. That is to say,market economy is under the law of the jungle,or Meritocracy is natural selection. As if free economy system were social Darwinism.
Before WWⅡ, There was a famous National Socialist "Ikki Kita(北一輝）. He would imagine free competitive marriage system. He thought this would make social evolution. He was ultra right. He was known as one who was seriously influenced by Darwin in Japan.
Generally speaking, the socialists are influenced by Darwin on concern with not economy but family problem.
Of course, Darwinism itself is ,Whether his theory is right or not, biological science, not family system studies.

Where will conservatives go? Why socialism was dead?

(Left image; old elephant, kodak ekter100)
Socialism had failed to construct good society long
before. But Socialism used to be thought it making society better than old society. After all ,what was socialism ? If conservative fails to recognize this correctly, Conservatives will make same mistake.
Generally speaking, market oriented economists are saying right about economy system.
But I doubt that conservatives don't recognize other important problem.
Socialism depended on the false precondition about reproduction of family and marriage. Mainly in 19th century,early socialists claimed false theories about family and marriage. For example,they thought "in the primitive age or society, there were free and group marriage systems". Marxism was based on these but rejected free market system. Lately anthropologists convinced these were false theory.To be different from free market,Such marriage system can't exit anywhere.

It's tough being a machine."Iris murdoch"

I finished reading the book"the sacred and profane love machine"to the end.
Why does tragedy move emotion? Depending on Nietzsche, only tragedy can reveal the secret between humanity and nature.
However,this novel is not tragedy and psychological expression is light feeling and visual . the reader doesn't anticipate serious feeling for this novel.
It is intellectual and easy to read. This novelist is very crafty at composition.
This novel is entertaining and charactors are portrayed as it were real ,but the ending is so forced and sudden that reader may feel ill at ease.
Three women(Harriet,Emily,Pinn) are so unique each other, the writer made female charactors successfully,I thought.

Iris Murdoch"The sacred and profane love machine"

　Nowadays、especially adultery novel has been the most hackneyed category in various novels. Conflicts between Illusion for free love and idea of family value are indispensable preposition for such novels. "the sacred and profane love machine" may be a pessimistic work. It seems to be nearby disillusion for a love affair. I am always surprised by imagination of novelists, whether they are famous or not.
In Japan,Such illusions have already been nonsence. Reproduction of family faces to serious difficulty,and eschatology catches easily the young mind. After all adultery novel can only exit on a certain stable social background.

Reading machine goes over "mid"Iris Murdock.

I have read a half of the book"The sacred and profane love machine"just now. Clumsy misfortune women are portraited delicately . Although my poor English skill, I am able to have sympathy with characters in this novel. I worry about how this story will end a bit.

Now,I am reading Iris murdock"The sacred and profane love machine"

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I am reading "The sacred and profane love machine" now. Generally speaking, Such story does not advance at all becouse of too much delicate portrait for characters, I have given up reading famouse Japanese classic "The tale Of Genji " long ago because of this reason.

Reading machine has a great patience to read the book.

(left image; symbol of the patience"Daruma",woodcarving)


To read the book sometimes needs a great patience. Especially, to read the book in which I don't have no interest.
English novels aren't my taste,so scarcely I read it,whether it is translated into Japanese or not .I have the book "Harry Potter"and"Christy"but I only watched it on the movies.
Now I decided to read "Iris Murdoch". I don't Know this writer at all. Only I brought it from junk wagon.
This novel doesn't sale now in Japan. it doesn't seem to be read by young people in Britain too. Wikipedia notes the novelist was influenced by Fleud and Sartre.


P.S I watched Iris murdoch Interview on Youtube.(literature and philosophy) I can understand why she separated literature from philosophy,but I can't easily understand how to separate imagination from fantasy. A literature would exist against common sense . I think this point still doesn't have changed.

Juvenile gesture for photograph in Japan

（left image; nikon d70)
This was the teenager who I didn't know at all. In Japan, Very often, juveniles make such gesture in front of camera. I wouldnt' do such a thing and couldn't sympathize.
I know the V-sign of Winston Churchill. It was "V" of the victory. This was obvious for me. But this photo is clearly the body-language only for photograph. Because this boy was suddenly taken photo by stranger (me) without any oral word.

How taste blossoms are?

( nikon d70 ;white eye,"Mejiro")
What does a wild birdie do everyday after all? whenever I see " white eyes", they flock to blossoms or fruits everyday everywhere.
People use the proverb" Same feather flock together."How can birdies recognize as a member of same group each other? I have no idea about it at all.
By the way ,In Germany, "Geschlecht" means both gender and race sometime generation or house.
That is to say, To recognize something as a same member and to make couple within the same group are equal each other.
In Japan , everyday, personificated explanations are applied to the animal behavior by the TV program. Are zoologist fairy writers? I often doubt they are not scientists.

Journey to "existence"

I finished reading the book"Journey to Ixtlan"to the end.
This story is written so crafty and details are vivid, it can be read without getting tired.
For my English skill, the style of expression is too redundant. It took four days for me to read it.
Only on my own viewpoint,not always
authorized,Heidegger(German philosopher ;existentialism) is closely similar to the way of the thinking of this book.
I thought the difference between "doing" and "not doing"is similar
to Heidegger's term;"sein in der welt"(being in the world).Depending on his philosophy, Human being exists in the tool system and Nature is inevitably looked to as a raw material.
In the scene of this novel, mood of fog ,rock and mountains impressed me. Because it reminded me Mt Osore in Japan. Famous female shaman (channeling) are doing their spiritual activity there.
Talking with coyote , it was "Stopping the World" , I thought the climax of this story was easy a little.

This summer must be hot.

(left image;nikkor AF VR 105mm micro Kodak100 , I don't know the name of this flower.)
Whether the earth will be hot or not, such a thing may not made me an agitator about global warming. Of course I have no opposing idea with keeping nature environment good. The story of global warming is look like Eschatology for me.This story may be The thermodynamical End of mankind. I am not Eschatologist.

What is it helpful for?

(Left image; Hoe-shaped helmet crest ,stag beetle)
How many worthless things are there? Nature (or God)made strange insect.What on earth is Such helmet helpful for? This is only deceiving device isn't it.
Worthless,huge things are often called"Battleship Yamato"in Japan.
"It is nothing so good as look."or "That costs very expensive but in vain and so old fashioned."

Modeling technique2"Masakado"

(left image;平将門"Masakado Tairano"nikon d70 f8 paper clay color liquitex scale 1/8)

A thousand years ago, a samurai was only guard for a court noble. Japanese emperor had no troops at that time.
"Masakado" had the ambitious to be "New Emperor"
He attempted another Japan. and failed.
But He became a forerunner of samurai era.

Modeling technique depends on seeing object perfectly. By seeing many times to the same object, I recognize false point of my modeling, and reform it into right. But wood carving technique is different from clay modeling.
　
　

Please stop the world !

(nikon d70;common buzzard)

I threw many books away recently. I would get rid of a certain English book which I got for nothing and remained to be unread.
This book's author was "Carlos Castaneda" I didn't know the name at all. Before getting rid of this, I decided to read it a little.(JOURNEY TO IXITRAN)

I search "Carlos Castaneda"by wikipedia, and I discovered it recommended by "Sinichi Nakazawa" Who was The Most influence person in the spiritual boom in Japan. Now Many Japanese people remember his name with "Shoko Asahara".
I have no interest in so called"New Age"and "Spiritual". So whether Castaneda's story was a fiction or not ,either will do for me.
Subjective ego has been philosophical problem since modern age, and Metamorphosis of ego is a commonplace theme today too.