Liberal Arts are White Elephants.

A man of culture get difficulties rather than a welcome. Liberal arts yield nothing useful any more. If you cite something from classics, your friends will show at a loss, and then make fun of you,"You know all, no thanks!"
Huge knowledge about humanities might make you alienated from your friends. Nietzsche was also a bachelor who had become more lonely because of his serious insight about humanities.
In modern society, instead of liberal arts, you have to endure petty soap opera. and if you are a man, to beef up your poor muscle shall be more recommended than to read classics nobody knows.
　
　"Is the Four-Year, Liberal-Arts Education Model Dead? "　I found this in CNBC web and read it.
The times in which high educated means a man of culture had already been dead long, long ago. Perhaps There are no more than 1~2% persons who deserve a intellectual in population. (Depending on my working career in publisher, this means the book sales rate for an intellectual)

Fear For Blackout

It was hot today. Shortage of electric power is worried in east area of Japan. Air conditioner may cause a blackout in this summer. So the temperature of cooling in the room is inadequate everywhere. Saving electricity is now a national resort to do without Blackout trouble.
I can't understand why national high school baseball competition(Koshien 甲子園） is due to be held. It is thought to waste electric power the most in the hottest season because of TV broadcasting. But Nobody opposed it. This is the very Japan. "Koshien" that is sacred and inviolable for Japanese. and I dislike it.

Far Right In Europa

Japan,Germany and Italy were called "The Axis" by "Allies". One of these country's feature in common appeared in 1960~70's. It was a terrible far left activity with terrorism. United Red Army (Japan, It was a prototype of modern Palestinian suicide terror ) Red Army Fraction( W Germany infamous Hijacks) Red Brigades(Italy kidnapping). And they were anti-U.S. naturally. In France, America, and many other countries, far left activities went off at that time. But It was not so radical as"The Axis". I assume that it was " W.W Ⅱ resurgence". It was also the battle against Anglo-America Capitalism. In some meanings ,a political movement might be a prolongation of the past war.

What is the most notable political movement in Europa after that? I'm sure that it is Far Right,and it will be in the future. I have no sympathy with Chauvinism, but understand modern far right stemmed from values which were surrendered themselves to the idea of Welfare State. So it often contains libertarianism.
In Britain, Welfare state have been bankrupt once as an idea. But Margaret Thacher was not called Far Right at that time. Although leftists or feminists called her "Fascist". Britain is still a welfare state, but it hasn't already meant a positive value. On the other hand,Thacher was not also so radical as a politician on the right.

Invincible Welfare state like Sweden, seems to have many Far Right supporters now. The more losers the more radical supporters to Far Right. Far Right movement is thought to depends on the pride or self-esteem of a loser or unadapted class. It seems not a temporary movement but a rebel from the side of values neglected for a long time in welfare state. Otherwise, it is a restorationism. (it might be values about family,religion, tribalism, male dominance, free economy or education)

The Mystery Of Sweden

Sweden is an unfamiliar land to me, and the Swedish people look very different to Japanese. In Japan, Many intellectuals are often saying "Sweden is a wonderful land or an ideal welfare state." But such their blinded worships to Sweden made me alienated from Sweden rather than know better.
By the way, I have found a troublesome fact in Sweden. Sweden is the worst criminal country in Europe. Why? I have been subjected to listen to the idolization of Sweden in Japan almost like Kim-Jong-il in North Korea for long time. I can't understand the fact. It is anything but an ideal land at least at the point of criminal rate.
For the example, rape rate in Sweden is twenty times as many as France or Germany. As for other criminals, compared with Japan, Japan is no less than free from criminal.
I just have read Wikipedia but I can't get it. Immigrant problems are same in other European countries. It couldn't be fair to blame everything on immigrants.
I heard that some Swedish girls invented anti-rape belt for their chastity. There might not be more disgrace for Swedish people than this.

Money Wagging The Man

I found one interesting blog (Japan). The blogger started his non working retired life just two years ago. His savings was amount to fifty million yen(six hundred twenty five thousand dollars ) at that time. He was still young and his effort to save money was outstanding. He began to enjoy his idle life.
Well, How is he now? He have just lost almost of his savings. He changed all his savings to Tepco(Tokyo electric power company)stocks for HEDGE. But, as you know, Fukushima Nuclear accident blew his all assets off. He is still young. He shall manage to get a job.
We are apt to forget the money is only fiat currency. It's only symbol of the wealth. When I was a junior high school student, I found the fact. But how about gold? Answer to this problem was in the world history.
I couldn't understand Physiocrats and and Mercantilism at that time. Now this seems to me as the wall of fools about"where the wealth come from?" Off course I stand by Physiocrats.
He realized this fact and had a fear for inflation. To prevent his assets from inflation, he changed all cash to Tepco's stock, and blew himself up. (commodities yield neither interest nor dividend money)

Shrike

Nikon D80 AF Zoom Nikkor 70-300mm
June, this year
A shrike is famous for it's unique territorial behavior and caching insects.

"We are not amused." A Case Of Curl Gustaf

" Please, let me go at least Hooters. I'm almost being strangled. I am not so chaste to do without nightlife " Swedish king might say so.

The Japanese people often tell the innocent prejudice to Swedish. "Sweden is a freedom of Love affair."So, such a rude Japanese might say "Well done, Hey kaiser!”「いよっ大統領」　By the way, I don't Know about Sweden at all without a camera "Hasselblad". Please forgive me.

Modern citizens don't forgive a royal family member to approach a sex industry at all. In Japan, whatever associates with nightlife must be eliminated from royal family images too. But these are implied forbiddance, so-called "Taboo". It looks like a paradox in the modern age, that celebrities or a royal family must be decent and modest in fear of implicit ill will of the people. (In fact, they were quite different before 17~18th century) The right of nightlife is one of fundamental human rights, isn't it?

Terrorism, Tsunami, And Shadenfreude

I might be snide. Forgiving myself, I am introspective, and sensitive to negative emotion in my subconsciousness. And negative feelings often seem to be installed in collective feelings.
Individualism is not always true to explain man's psychology. Many psychologists have pointed out the collective side of emotion, and revealed mob psychology.
Negative accident, or terrorism might incite negative emotions. They often are an enmity toward social winner, vandalism and denial of industrial system. As anyone knows in the world history, especially Nazism,racism was the worst eruption in collective negative feelings.
In fact, terrorism is schemed to political effect. If it satisfy losers with malicious joy, masterminds of the terrorism will think to get a score.
Nuclear reactor accident unleashed schadenfreude to TEPCO(Tokyo electric power company). A shapeless grudge might extend to anti industrial system.
How joyful the people in the side of anti-nuclear power are! But None of them have an moderate opinion for national energy policy. Off course, their fantastic energy plan seems inadequate to the mediocre but conscience businessman.

Convalescence Of Aphasia Could Be Unsatisfactory

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's face's photo is public. Her countenance reminds me of patients who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Depending on the news, she is suffering from right side paralysis.
To surgery for cerebral hemorrhage is only to remove the hemorrhaged blood, not to restore damaged brain. Cerebral hemorrhage is common disease, and an aphasia is well-known sequela.(Whoever has a family member suffered from this disease, knows what it is like.)
Politics depends on verbal and rhetorical performance. Her aphasia might indicate something convulsion in the modern civilization . While an verbal diarrhea, political debates become nonsense day by day. Terrorism might overcome a rational process. Politics will suffer from aphasia , or might have already suffered, and it's prognosis will be unsatisfactory just like various historic terrorism have shown in the world history. A language will become a junk, and people shall sprechchor."No more debate, No more compromise. To kill or not to kill, that's problem, otherwise Money".

Almost People Never Die Of E.coli Food Poisoning

E.coli is a common bacteria. On some Japanese beach,E.coli often used to be detected. Excreta was thrown away to sea without sewerage disposal. Many people might died of it. Now we cannot know how it was. Developed medical method enable us to scrutinize the cause of a disease.

Germany is considered to be the most hygienic country in the world, Many people might not well imagine E.coli panic. I also cannot imagine how German worry about it. It is called O-104. I heard that O-104 is antibiotic resistance bacteria. On the other hand,four Japaneses died of O-157,and O111.

As a matter of fact, many people die of infectious disease even now. Pneumonia is well known. The death of food poisoning is far rarer than pneumonia in developed country. Innocent Spanish
farmer should angry. After all,nobody clamor about common death. In information technology age,
infection panic also seems to be a mass media phenomenon just same as swine flu would be.

Hey ,Kan You Are Already Dead.

To scrap a disuse reactor safe, it need to be soaked in the water almost forever. And nuclear experts call it "water entombment".
In Japanese, it is said "Sui Kan".
Prime minister Naoto Kan announced to step down, and his colleague Hatayama ex P.M agreed with him yesterday.
Today, Kan denied his pledge with Hatoyama. He declare to linger on his position. Hatoyama outraged and denounced fierce "Kan You are a liar." What caused him so outrageous? Some commentators explained that Kan deceived him about the timing of his resignation. It was this month yesterday. But today "it will be next year.I won't quit until the water entombment finished. I am responsible for "Sui Kan" "he said. .....................
Kan, You shall go to Sui kan(水棺） because"You Are Already Dead".

Chastise After Operation "Tomodachi"

Vocabulary building is arduous but attractive for anyone to study language. Well I have just got the word "chastise". I don't remember how I found this word. "chaste"means "morally pure or virgin" And "chastise" means "corporal punishment" A consistency of words like this is quite different from Japanese which is my first language, and whenever I associate one word or idea with others, I feel pleased with it complacently.
Searching "chastise" by google, Avro Lancaster(British bomber)images hit the page. They were famous for dam busters used in"Operation chastise". This operation name might be well known rather than the word "chastise"itself in Japan. What associates"chastise" with demolishing German dam by bouncing bomb? I have no idea at all.

Well,as for operation name, U.S Army deigned relief for Japanese in devastated area,and it was called "Operation Tomodachi". "Tomodachi"is a Japanese word,and it means "Friend"in English. In difficulties, we should have a friend.Japanese ex-prime minister Koizumi said for U.S Bush "I am your friend" just after 9.11 incident. These things look like the truth everytime and everywhere.

Japanese politics has become more and more chaotic.Japanese politicians are anything but"Tomodachi"each other.Moreover the people little understand their policy.
Japanese politicians seem to need "Chastise"rather than "Tomodachi". Of course,Mr Strauss Kahn shall be chastised.(This is redundant,isn't it.)

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