You're right. The enemy has already by far invaded the United States. All we do is hear of it, but NO action to STOP it. The illegal aliens, mostly fighting aged men, are just pouring into our Country.
Oh, 'something will happen' alright, and it's going to be exciting (!!), more than your little skirmishes on the side, EMPs and disease outbreaks and terrorist runs, ALL TO FUNNEL US INTO A KILL ZONE.
Go your way, remember Hawaii, they shut down the only escape routes, do not go with the flow.
All instigated by the enemy and met with nothing more than gasps by the residents of the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
I learned long long ago to ignore the official evacuation areas for us here in Japan. A student of history, I know that most deaths from the 1923 Kanto Earthquake were those who burned to death in the parks designated as evacuation locations. Similar with the 2011/03/11 earthquake and tsunami. Despite residents questioning the wisdom of using school gyms just meters away from the waterfront and scarcely above sea level at high tide, these were where many met their deaths during the tsunami. A fairly large number of designated evacuation areas where swept away with all who sought refuge therein. The Sewol, the Korean ferry which sank with most of the passengers awaiting the command to abandon ship in their cabins is another example to learn a few things about survival and follow what you know and ignore the announcements. Other comes to mind. A famous air crash in the States in which there were survivors, those that made it out climbed across the seats to the exits as they felt they were waiting too long for those ahead of them to go. As they got to the person in the front of the line of those following instructions to crawl out, they noticed that he was either dead of probably out from the fumes/lack of air. Either way, all those behind him waiting for him to move did not make it out.
As with these, I am more inclined to chalk up the mishandling of the evacuation from the fire in Hawaii as utter incompetence. Yes, there were downed power lines which is usually cause to close the roads they are on. However, were they even live and even if they were, the fire was a bigger problem. As history attempts to teach again and again, most people can not ignore instructions from “above” and many perish as a result. The police officers on scene were told to close the roads due to downed power lines. Bother they and many of the victims were unable to read the situation for themselves. Some survivors saw the cones, etc. blocking the way out but ignored them. At least some ignored the police who ordered them to take another route. Just as with the 1923 quake, the 3/11 quake and tsunami, the air crash and the Sewol, and a great many other disasters, those who obeyed died.
Re: the surviving thing - here's another one I bring up on occasion with students - from the 2012 Tohoku quake. There was an elementary school in one of those ria-type areas - narrow valley running inland - it was some distance, maybe 5K or so, from the ocean.
School had a nearby evacuation zone designated - on high ground and relatively close to the school, and a planned route to get there.
So, earthquake happens, tsunami warnings start being given. The students assemble outside the school. A few parents show up in cars and grab their kids. Warnings are becoming more urgent.
So, the students and teachers start toward the evacuation area - 70+ people, students and teachers. BUT although the hinanjo is close to the school as the crow flies, the slope close to the school is steep and wooded, so the designated route is roundabout on not-so-steep streets, and at first goes toward the river which the tsunami is headed up.
As they are proceeding along it becomes possible to *hear* the tsunami crushing buildings. ONE kid - sixth grade boy IIRC says whatever the 6th grade Japanese boy equivalent is of 'screw this' and makes a break for the nearby wooded slope.
That is new to me but not surprising as there are so many stories and I know I have not heard them all. Thanks for sharing this. There are others where people died for not following the rules too. One teacher argued with the principle to be allowed to take his class to the designated evac area. The Principle refused as the school was far from the shore. Some students broke away and tried the escape route but the city had not maintained it. The stairs up the steep hill were overgrown and impassable. They somehow found a way to safety.
In short, it was a major Charlie Foxtrot on a grand scale and authority failed at almost every level as is the case in most catastrophes.
This SDG business is insidious - as Vivek Ramaswamy and others have pointed out, it's being pushed by Black Rock and other heavies that are so powerful that even major corporations can be under threat if they don't go along with the program.
But as for what their end game is - here's a gem from
Where Japan policy is clearly laid out in a policy paper extolling the wonders of nanotech and how it will be used to achieve SDG's and Society 5.0:
"Society 5.0 was introduced as a central concept of the fifth Midterm Science, Technology, and Innovation Basic Plan by the Japanese government covering the fiscal years from 2016 to 2020."
"In Society 5.0, all people and things are connected with the Internet of Things (IoT), where knowledge and information are shared, necessary information is provided with artificial intelligence (AI) when needed, and new value is thereby added. As a result, our lives will change significantly..."
'significantly'? OK, yeah.
'for the better'? Maybe not so much.
"With so-called “digital twins”, all medical information on live patients is stored in a virtual Avatar and fed a wide variety of information — medical images, genetics, and information generated by (nano)sensor arrays (such as wearables, ingestible and insidables, or even human physiology-mimicking models, a.k.a. organs-on-chips) — that facilitates the development and assessment of personalized therapies/medicines."
Idea being to have nanotech devices in everyone functioning as sensors to be monitored in real time and also to be able to manipulate biological functions in people, animals, plants... In my city the major engineering university just this year is merging with the medical university - now I think I get *why*.
FWIW - nanotech has had many billions invested in it over the last decade of more and is mostly unregulated and unmonitored. Some serious researchers are now reporting nano structures in human blood, even in the unvaxxed. Various types of nanotech are in foods, cosmetics, medicines... the lipid nanoparticles in the mRNA vax are actually classified as 'devices' - the cited article of course hails the vax as an important breakthrough toward achieving their goal of bioengineering everyone.
Around ten years ago I had three clients working on IoT. In particular, they were working in chip embedded uniforms for factory workers that would allow management to question anyone who physically stepped out of line at anytime during their shift. Actually, even before, as they would be monitored while performing mandatory group calisthenics and as they marched to their work stations afterwards. Canon has commercials on TV right now for their version of this. It is later than we think.
YOU are right. In Hawaii they closed the escape routes. We the People, need to beat to our own drum. All those problems, too, with the airlines are done on purpose by our
Communist Government. Pete isn't even running that show. They want to discourage travel even, if it means killing people!
They have been discouraging air travel for at least since 911. And as with everything else, they are not going to rely on a single route to get to where they want. They discourage air travel by making it expensive, demeaning with the absurd safety checks and time consuming with the same, and all the damage they caused with the complete or almost complete shut down of air travel during the panic. To see how much control over the air industry the US gov. Could exert over the air industry, the Obama admin used the pretext of ash in the air from a volcano to cancel or divert a large portion of the over all international flights to and from the US. Then we have pilots dying on the flight deck due to the clot shot.
Similarly, all aspects of life as we once knew it is under assault from multiple angles.
When the established media in Canada reports on this, you know the tide is changing.
Even more shocking is this story by the CBC in Quebec. It's in French but I was able to read the English translation thanks to Google. When CBC does a story like this, you know shit's gettin' real.
Additionally, i have a 10 year old kid that now has difficulty with listening to spoken language and more recently with pronunciation, the product of spending the latest third of their life being “educated” by idiots behind masks. Masking was so crazy over here that even the swim coaches wore them in the pool. check out my earlier posting on my substack. I posted pictures of the human performers at Sea World in Japan wear face coverings while in the water with killer whales.
I am also so far underemployed that if single I would have to leave the country as I have not earned more than my expenses for almost 3 years now. Wife is not happy. Can not land any new positions unless I am willing to wear a mask for interviews and at work, which I am not.
Hard to be optimistic under such circumstances, so keep this in mind when reading my doom and gloom.
I had no idea it was still like that in Japan. I'm sorry guys are having to deal with that. I know we're being ruled by idiots here, but it's nothing like that.
Why do you think that is? In Canada, I believe it's because we're simply too nice, too obedient, and the default assumption is that the government is going to do right.
It is hard to compare the situations in Canada and Japan. It has not been easy here these past 4 years. The already weak economy has probably been given a self inflicted kill shot, suicide that were in the decline for a decade have shot back up, children have been denied learning how to communicate. While I am not able to land new positions in large part due to my refusal to wear a mask, I can not say for certain that masks are why I lost the jobs I did. The police are not involved in any of this, so no getting stopped by police and interrogated on why we are out of our domicile or not wearing a mask or about vax status. Japan relied on peer pressure, which is almost as severe but at least does not get you locked up and or fined.
Japanese society demands conformity; all must conform to whatever is adopted by it. Japan has been like this for millennia. That does not answer why the powers that be here adopted the mask but once adopted, everyone must obey. Japan also has what I think of as a mask fetish. They have long worn masks against colds and flu here, at least since the Spanish flu. The fact that both colds and flu arrive each Fall has not shaken their belief in them. I have tried for 20 years to get my med students to stop wearing them as protection against these, to no effect. Then there are those who felt ashamed to show their face in public. We now have far many more now that are afraid to go unmasked in public despite the recommendation to wear them has been rescinded. Who’d a thunk that that would happen after 3 1/2 of masking?
I know many here, Japanese and gaijin, like myself, who are against masks but they wear them at work. They have their reasons, for the Japanese this is mainly that they have to follow the “rule” whatever it may be, no matter how foolish, dangerous, self defeating or perverse it is.
The fact that this woke stuff is wrong and goes against nature means it goes against nature and is not sustainable. Do what you can to teach your kids the truth and most of them will eventually see it for what it is. Of course there will be some casualties along the way but ultimately we will prevail.
It’s not meant to be sustainable. Given the damage it creates, it can’t be. Trans surgeries are not reversible. Once undertaken, that is one less human being capable of procreation, which is their goal.
This stuff is already in the schools here. I have my hands full teaching about masks. Been trying to teach my med students for 20 years that masks do not work to block viruses. They laugh and continue to wear them against flu and colds. Now I have the vaccine to try to teach my family about. Never an easy task, but my wife works for Pf. These added to the usual difficulties raising kids has me overburdened without this woke BS. Though that this would come later in their education.
Cheers Kitsune, my friend! The good news is that you are mistaken. Yes, retarded, nonsensical sdg/dei/lgbtqalphabet soup insanity can be readily spotted in the two controlled lands of Japan and Korea. However, spotted is where it ends. Take a look at Japan from a civilizational perspective and things change immediately/drastically. All the un/globalist nonsense is simply a mirror of usa (aka british) imposed kommie ideological silliness on a defeated adversary. NONE of it is deeper than superficial. As for 'put into effect' - beyond superficial bathroom signs, nothing substantial or permanent... Take heart, my friend, we will MORE than weather this storm! And get your goofy ass down here to Miyoshi for a visit - bring your family, too! A trip out of the Tokyo world to a beautiful & self-sufficient town would do wonders for your soul...
I so wish you were correct. You are just up on a higher deck. A few decks below, where I am quarter, we are neck deep.
SDGs are now a dinner table topic in my house, apparently. It is in my kids’ text books. One of my bosses was told by a previous teacher from the US or the UK, that they absolutely must teach this BS.
Yesterday, I met with a substacker for an interview. He has left Japan because of this madness, though he hopes not permanently. At his school, they had mandatory training and the young teachers who were tasked with the training where instructing them with how to weave all this into their lessons. I failed to ask if these were JN and gaijin teachers or both pushing this. It has already infected medical education here too. Not sure how widely it has spread, but the infection is without doubt.
One thing I would like to ask you about regarding life in the country. The night before any trip we take by car, now by minivan, I top off the gas tank. Did the same in the States, unless going to the neighboring state which had much lower gas tax. Otherwise, topping off thye tank is a pre-trip task. In 2018 we and another family stayed at a farm house in a community with many fully furnished yet empty homes. The other family did not fill their tank before the trip and almost ran out of gas as we passed one after another closed gas stations. They had to go into the nearest town, which was not so near, before they found a gas station still in business. I no longer recall if it was before this incident or after, but I learned that new safety (and possibly environmental) laws forced many rural gas stations out of business. The new laws were not grandfathered in any way and low volume service stations simply could not afford to meet the new requirements and closed. Off the highway and out of town up here on the Kanto plain, there are few things rarer than an operation service station. I saw this change. While there have always been derelict gas stations here and there just as there are restaurants and hotels, I still could get gas out in the boondocks when I first started driving here, around 18 years ago. Not now. At least I can not rely on there being one when I need it.
Hey buddy! Perhaps we should plan a video call and dig into a few of these topics?
Having lived mostly in the deep countryside (Nagasaki and Hiroshima), and driven through country roads in every prefecture in west Japan, I haven't ever noticed any trouble with getting gas off the beaten path... Although I would guess that is potentially different up north where the distances are greater and the population centers somewhat further apart.
As for all the sdg nonsense, whenever anyone brings them (or anything related) I immediately go into my rant about kommie propaganda.
That is fascinating on the gas stations. After noticing them disappearing, I read about the safety laws being behind the phenomenon. Some time after, I read on a climate blog based in the West that it was due to environmental policy and driven by a desire to force JNs to give up their cars. I wrote in saying that I believed it was more due to the idiots who make such rules just not knowing the effects of their policies and not caring to find out. But you are not experiencing it at all, regardless the cause.
The problem with ranting about commies is that those who are not already alerted to the fact that everything is now political just tune you out, permanently. Not that I have had better luck reaching anyone. What I am planning on doing is to translate the UN webpages that deal with SDGs directly and indirectly into Japanese. The first layer seems innocent enough. But when you go just a layer or two deeper you find the UN’s definitions for inclusion and equity and the like. That Should wake them up, but experience with other issues suggests it will not. We’ll see.
The fact that I have already had 1st year college students tell me that binary language is wrong indicates that they have already been learning this for a number of years.
Was at a swim meet for my oldest today. Many still wearing masks, many kids too. Sad, frustrating and enraging.
I'm guessing you already know of Kadokawa stopping their translated release of Irreversible Damage; but do you know that the book is instead slated to be released as トランスジェンダーになりたい少女たち by 産経新聞/Sankei Shimbun on April 3rd?
And it’s not just with these ESG, SDGs, DEI, LGBTQWTFO madness being taught in schools. Too much of this, which is any of it, has already been put in to effect. I have written on this before, but it needs said again.
When appliances die, good luck replacing them. It is not a question of price, through they are far more expensive than they used to be, you cannot replace a dish washer, laundry machine or dryer anywhere near as capable as that which you are replacing at any price because of these stupid environmental policies. And this is not new in the US. I learned of it only fairly recently in Japan, but do not know when this madness caught on here.
You're right. The enemy has already by far invaded the United States. All we do is hear of it, but NO action to STOP it. The illegal aliens, mostly fighting aged men, are just pouring into our Country.
How can something not happen?
Oh, 'something will happen' alright, and it's going to be exciting (!!), more than your little skirmishes on the side, EMPs and disease outbreaks and terrorist runs, ALL TO FUNNEL US INTO A KILL ZONE.
Go your way, remember Hawaii, they shut down the only escape routes, do not go with the flow.
All instigated by the enemy and met with nothing more than gasps by the residents of the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
I learned long long ago to ignore the official evacuation areas for us here in Japan. A student of history, I know that most deaths from the 1923 Kanto Earthquake were those who burned to death in the parks designated as evacuation locations. Similar with the 2011/03/11 earthquake and tsunami. Despite residents questioning the wisdom of using school gyms just meters away from the waterfront and scarcely above sea level at high tide, these were where many met their deaths during the tsunami. A fairly large number of designated evacuation areas where swept away with all who sought refuge therein. The Sewol, the Korean ferry which sank with most of the passengers awaiting the command to abandon ship in their cabins is another example to learn a few things about survival and follow what you know and ignore the announcements. Other comes to mind. A famous air crash in the States in which there were survivors, those that made it out climbed across the seats to the exits as they felt they were waiting too long for those ahead of them to go. As they got to the person in the front of the line of those following instructions to crawl out, they noticed that he was either dead of probably out from the fumes/lack of air. Either way, all those behind him waiting for him to move did not make it out.
As with these, I am more inclined to chalk up the mishandling of the evacuation from the fire in Hawaii as utter incompetence. Yes, there were downed power lines which is usually cause to close the roads they are on. However, were they even live and even if they were, the fire was a bigger problem. As history attempts to teach again and again, most people can not ignore instructions from “above” and many perish as a result. The police officers on scene were told to close the roads due to downed power lines. Bother they and many of the victims were unable to read the situation for themselves. Some survivors saw the cones, etc. blocking the way out but ignored them. At least some ignored the police who ordered them to take another route. Just as with the 1923 quake, the 3/11 quake and tsunami, the air crash and the Sewol, and a great many other disasters, those who obeyed died.
Re: the surviving thing - here's another one I bring up on occasion with students - from the 2012 Tohoku quake. There was an elementary school in one of those ria-type areas - narrow valley running inland - it was some distance, maybe 5K or so, from the ocean.
School had a nearby evacuation zone designated - on high ground and relatively close to the school, and a planned route to get there.
So, earthquake happens, tsunami warnings start being given. The students assemble outside the school. A few parents show up in cars and grab their kids. Warnings are becoming more urgent.
So, the students and teachers start toward the evacuation area - 70+ people, students and teachers. BUT although the hinanjo is close to the school as the crow flies, the slope close to the school is steep and wooded, so the designated route is roundabout on not-so-steep streets, and at first goes toward the river which the tsunami is headed up.
As they are proceeding along it becomes possible to *hear* the tsunami crushing buildings. ONE kid - sixth grade boy IIRC says whatever the 6th grade Japanese boy equivalent is of 'screw this' and makes a break for the nearby wooded slope.
And ends up being the sole survivor...
That is new to me but not surprising as there are so many stories and I know I have not heard them all. Thanks for sharing this. There are others where people died for not following the rules too. One teacher argued with the principle to be allowed to take his class to the designated evac area. The Principle refused as the school was far from the shore. Some students broke away and tried the escape route but the city had not maintained it. The stairs up the steep hill were overgrown and impassable. They somehow found a way to safety.
In short, it was a major Charlie Foxtrot on a grand scale and authority failed at almost every level as is the case in most catastrophes.
This SDG business is insidious - as Vivek Ramaswamy and others have pointed out, it's being pushed by Black Rock and other heavies that are so powerful that even major corporations can be under threat if they don't go along with the program.
But as for what their end game is - here's a gem from
https://outraged.substack.com/p/nanotech-to-realize-the-utopia-of?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1087020&post_id=140949175&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b8s1p&utm_medium=email
Where Japan policy is clearly laid out in a policy paper extolling the wonders of nanotech and how it will be used to achieve SDG's and Society 5.0:
"Society 5.0 was introduced as a central concept of the fifth Midterm Science, Technology, and Innovation Basic Plan by the Japanese government covering the fiscal years from 2016 to 2020."
"In Society 5.0, all people and things are connected with the Internet of Things (IoT), where knowledge and information are shared, necessary information is provided with artificial intelligence (AI) when needed, and new value is thereby added. As a result, our lives will change significantly..."
'significantly'? OK, yeah.
'for the better'? Maybe not so much.
"With so-called “digital twins”, all medical information on live patients is stored in a virtual Avatar and fed a wide variety of information — medical images, genetics, and information generated by (nano)sensor arrays (such as wearables, ingestible and insidables, or even human physiology-mimicking models, a.k.a. organs-on-chips) — that facilitates the development and assessment of personalized therapies/medicines."
Idea being to have nanotech devices in everyone functioning as sensors to be monitored in real time and also to be able to manipulate biological functions in people, animals, plants... In my city the major engineering university just this year is merging with the medical university - now I think I get *why*.
FWIW - nanotech has had many billions invested in it over the last decade of more and is mostly unregulated and unmonitored. Some serious researchers are now reporting nano structures in human blood, even in the unvaxxed. Various types of nanotech are in foods, cosmetics, medicines... the lipid nanoparticles in the mRNA vax are actually classified as 'devices' - the cited article of course hails the vax as an important breakthrough toward achieving their goal of bioengineering everyone.
Around ten years ago I had three clients working on IoT. In particular, they were working in chip embedded uniforms for factory workers that would allow management to question anyone who physically stepped out of line at anytime during their shift. Actually, even before, as they would be monitored while performing mandatory group calisthenics and as they marched to their work stations afterwards. Canon has commercials on TV right now for their version of this. It is later than we think.
YOU are right. In Hawaii they closed the escape routes. We the People, need to beat to our own drum. All those problems, too, with the airlines are done on purpose by our
Communist Government. Pete isn't even running that show. They want to discourage travel even, if it means killing people!
They have been discouraging air travel for at least since 911. And as with everything else, they are not going to rely on a single route to get to where they want. They discourage air travel by making it expensive, demeaning with the absurd safety checks and time consuming with the same, and all the damage they caused with the complete or almost complete shut down of air travel during the panic. To see how much control over the air industry the US gov. Could exert over the air industry, the Obama admin used the pretext of ash in the air from a volcano to cancel or divert a large portion of the over all international flights to and from the US. Then we have pilots dying on the flight deck due to the clot shot.
Similarly, all aspects of life as we once knew it is under assault from multiple angles.
You said it all. AGREE....
I've seen glimmers of hope recently.
Here is one:
Leaked discussions reveal doctors' concerns about treatments for transgender children
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/wpath-files-transgender-care-children
When the established media in Canada reports on this, you know the tide is changing.
Even more shocking is this story by the CBC in Quebec. It's in French but I was able to read the English translation thanks to Google. When CBC does a story like this, you know shit's gettin' real.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/8610/transition-genre-testoterone-choix-dysphorie-sante-mentale
I hope you are correct. So far, my experience is we are little more than speed bumps to the left’s juggernaut.
Well, I hope so too. I'm a little scared to get my hopes up, because my experience has been the same as yours.
Additionally, i have a 10 year old kid that now has difficulty with listening to spoken language and more recently with pronunciation, the product of spending the latest third of their life being “educated” by idiots behind masks. Masking was so crazy over here that even the swim coaches wore them in the pool. check out my earlier posting on my substack. I posted pictures of the human performers at Sea World in Japan wear face coverings while in the water with killer whales.
I am also so far underemployed that if single I would have to leave the country as I have not earned more than my expenses for almost 3 years now. Wife is not happy. Can not land any new positions unless I am willing to wear a mask for interviews and at work, which I am not.
Hard to be optimistic under such circumstances, so keep this in mind when reading my doom and gloom.
I had no idea it was still like that in Japan. I'm sorry guys are having to deal with that. I know we're being ruled by idiots here, but it's nothing like that.
Why do you think that is? In Canada, I believe it's because we're simply too nice, too obedient, and the default assumption is that the government is going to do right.
Are the Japanese like this as well?
It is hard to compare the situations in Canada and Japan. It has not been easy here these past 4 years. The already weak economy has probably been given a self inflicted kill shot, suicide that were in the decline for a decade have shot back up, children have been denied learning how to communicate. While I am not able to land new positions in large part due to my refusal to wear a mask, I can not say for certain that masks are why I lost the jobs I did. The police are not involved in any of this, so no getting stopped by police and interrogated on why we are out of our domicile or not wearing a mask or about vax status. Japan relied on peer pressure, which is almost as severe but at least does not get you locked up and or fined.
Japanese society demands conformity; all must conform to whatever is adopted by it. Japan has been like this for millennia. That does not answer why the powers that be here adopted the mask but once adopted, everyone must obey. Japan also has what I think of as a mask fetish. They have long worn masks against colds and flu here, at least since the Spanish flu. The fact that both colds and flu arrive each Fall has not shaken their belief in them. I have tried for 20 years to get my med students to stop wearing them as protection against these, to no effect. Then there are those who felt ashamed to show their face in public. We now have far many more now that are afraid to go unmasked in public despite the recommendation to wear them has been rescinded. Who’d a thunk that that would happen after 3 1/2 of masking?
I know many here, Japanese and gaijin, like myself, who are against masks but they wear them at work. They have their reasons, for the Japanese this is mainly that they have to follow the “rule” whatever it may be, no matter how foolish, dangerous, self defeating or perverse it is.
The fact that this woke stuff is wrong and goes against nature means it goes against nature and is not sustainable. Do what you can to teach your kids the truth and most of them will eventually see it for what it is. Of course there will be some casualties along the way but ultimately we will prevail.
It’s not meant to be sustainable. Given the damage it creates, it can’t be. Trans surgeries are not reversible. Once undertaken, that is one less human being capable of procreation, which is their goal.
This stuff is already in the schools here. I have my hands full teaching about masks. Been trying to teach my med students for 20 years that masks do not work to block viruses. They laugh and continue to wear them against flu and colds. Now I have the vaccine to try to teach my family about. Never an easy task, but my wife works for Pf. These added to the usual difficulties raising kids has me overburdened without this woke BS. Though that this would come later in their education.
Cheers Kitsune, my friend! The good news is that you are mistaken. Yes, retarded, nonsensical sdg/dei/lgbtqalphabet soup insanity can be readily spotted in the two controlled lands of Japan and Korea. However, spotted is where it ends. Take a look at Japan from a civilizational perspective and things change immediately/drastically. All the un/globalist nonsense is simply a mirror of usa (aka british) imposed kommie ideological silliness on a defeated adversary. NONE of it is deeper than superficial. As for 'put into effect' - beyond superficial bathroom signs, nothing substantial or permanent... Take heart, my friend, we will MORE than weather this storm! And get your goofy ass down here to Miyoshi for a visit - bring your family, too! A trip out of the Tokyo world to a beautiful & self-sufficient town would do wonders for your soul...
I so wish you were correct. You are just up on a higher deck. A few decks below, where I am quarter, we are neck deep.
SDGs are now a dinner table topic in my house, apparently. It is in my kids’ text books. One of my bosses was told by a previous teacher from the US or the UK, that they absolutely must teach this BS.
Yesterday, I met with a substacker for an interview. He has left Japan because of this madness, though he hopes not permanently. At his school, they had mandatory training and the young teachers who were tasked with the training where instructing them with how to weave all this into their lessons. I failed to ask if these were JN and gaijin teachers or both pushing this. It has already infected medical education here too. Not sure how widely it has spread, but the infection is without doubt.
One thing I would like to ask you about regarding life in the country. The night before any trip we take by car, now by minivan, I top off the gas tank. Did the same in the States, unless going to the neighboring state which had much lower gas tax. Otherwise, topping off thye tank is a pre-trip task. In 2018 we and another family stayed at a farm house in a community with many fully furnished yet empty homes. The other family did not fill their tank before the trip and almost ran out of gas as we passed one after another closed gas stations. They had to go into the nearest town, which was not so near, before they found a gas station still in business. I no longer recall if it was before this incident or after, but I learned that new safety (and possibly environmental) laws forced many rural gas stations out of business. The new laws were not grandfathered in any way and low volume service stations simply could not afford to meet the new requirements and closed. Off the highway and out of town up here on the Kanto plain, there are few things rarer than an operation service station. I saw this change. While there have always been derelict gas stations here and there just as there are restaurants and hotels, I still could get gas out in the boondocks when I first started driving here, around 18 years ago. Not now. At least I can not rely on there being one when I need it.
How is the gas situation down by you?
Hey buddy! Perhaps we should plan a video call and dig into a few of these topics?
Having lived mostly in the deep countryside (Nagasaki and Hiroshima), and driven through country roads in every prefecture in west Japan, I haven't ever noticed any trouble with getting gas off the beaten path... Although I would guess that is potentially different up north where the distances are greater and the population centers somewhat further apart.
As for all the sdg nonsense, whenever anyone brings them (or anything related) I immediately go into my rant about kommie propaganda.
Let's chat soon.
Wife is still working from home, videos are out.
That is fascinating on the gas stations. After noticing them disappearing, I read about the safety laws being behind the phenomenon. Some time after, I read on a climate blog based in the West that it was due to environmental policy and driven by a desire to force JNs to give up their cars. I wrote in saying that I believed it was more due to the idiots who make such rules just not knowing the effects of their policies and not caring to find out. But you are not experiencing it at all, regardless the cause.
The problem with ranting about commies is that those who are not already alerted to the fact that everything is now political just tune you out, permanently. Not that I have had better luck reaching anyone. What I am planning on doing is to translate the UN webpages that deal with SDGs directly and indirectly into Japanese. The first layer seems innocent enough. But when you go just a layer or two deeper you find the UN’s definitions for inclusion and equity and the like. That Should wake them up, but experience with other issues suggests it will not. We’ll see.
The fact that I have already had 1st year college students tell me that binary language is wrong indicates that they have already been learning this for a number of years.
Was at a swim meet for my oldest today. Many still wearing masks, many kids too. Sad, frustrating and enraging.
" What I am planning on doing is to translate the UN webpages that deal with SDGs directly and indirectly into Japanese."
I remembered reading your comment regarding translating when I came across this:
https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/topics/10952/
I'm guessing you already know of Kadokawa stopping their translated release of Irreversible Damage; but do you know that the book is instead slated to be released as トランスジェンダーになりたい少女たち by 産経新聞/Sankei Shimbun on April 3rd?
https://www.sankei.com/article/20240319-KGJ7UGHRHFAMHBYVHZBMOYBU5Q/
and it doesn't sound like they'll cancel it:
"産経新聞出版にも「トランスジェンダーの人を差別するような本は出版されるべきではない」と出版中止を求めるメールや手紙が届いている一方、「脅迫や圧力に屈してはいけない。ぜひ読んでみたい」という激励の声も寄せられている。"
Just in case you didn't know about it I figured you'd be interested.
Had no idea of this. Thanks.
And it’s not just with these ESG, SDGs, DEI, LGBTQWTFO madness being taught in schools. Too much of this, which is any of it, has already been put in to effect. I have written on this before, but it needs said again.
When appliances die, good luck replacing them. It is not a question of price, through they are far more expensive than they used to be, you cannot replace a dish washer, laundry machine or dryer anywhere near as capable as that which you are replacing at any price because of these stupid environmental policies. And this is not new in the US. I learned of it only fairly recently in Japan, but do not know when this madness caught on here.