2023/2/13 付🇺🇸米紙NYタイムズ「日本の高齢者による集団自決を提案したイェール大教授。彼は何を言いたかったのか」
A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? @nytimesnytimes.com/2023/02/12/wor… #成田悠輔#集団自決
"老害殺害計画," literally translated as "The Master Plan to Kill the Old Guards," was the title of the book promised by a Tokyo-based right-wing publisher a year ago in May 25, 2022 to now worldly famous (or infamous) professor #YusukeNarita, @YaleEconomics Assistant Professor.
Although Narita wrote in his email response to @nytimes that his comments "primarily concerned" the "tycoons" who remain in control of various industries, he did not make the distinction when aging in rural villages was being discussed. He proposed the same solution.
So it is safe to assume that his "only solution" applies not only to the "old guards" but also to the common elderly who "may become harm to society," which is what the wording "老害" stands for; a harm brought on to the society by gerontocracy. So how will distinction be made?
興味深いのは、成田氏の主張に対し「猛反発」が起こるとともに「聴衆を獲得」しており(“won him an audience”)、彼の発想が政策決定に不当な影響を及ぼす(“it could unduly sway public policy”)ことの懸念が表明されているところ。これはNYタイムズとは視点が異なる。
既に1000万人が見たこのツイートでNYタイムズは、成田氏が馬組の中で語った「唯一の解決策(”the only solution”)」と言う表現に注目した。これは、番組内でひろゆき氏が「高齢者のわがまま問題」をどうするかと投げかけたことに対して成田氏が実際に語った一言だった。 times.abema.tv/articles/-/100…
#Ghibli’s Director #HayaoMiyazaki expresses sheer disgust when shown a dehumanizing ‘creature’ which is intentionally ‘deformed’ so that it can create effects that no human can. At the end of the clip he sighs: “I feel like mankind is nearing its end.”
#Dwango CEO: “So this is what we’re creating (using AI). It doesn’t feel pain, so it doesn’t try to protect itself. This eerie move can may be used for zombie games. It can probably imitate eerie moves that no human can mimic.”
#DirMiyazaki: “The creators of this have utterly no respect for pain whatsoever aren’t they? I find it extremely disturbing. I would never want to use this for my work. There’s something entirely disrespectful to all living things.”
In a live news show, @YaleEconomics AP #YusukeNarita asserted that the “only solution” to resolve the aging population issue in Japan is to “let elderlies commit mass suicide before they become a harm to society.”
I ask you. @Yale, is this acceptable?
@Yale Assistant Prof. Narita later said in an interview that he was only being “metaphorical,” that he meant for the elderlies to ‘depart’ on its own to make ways to their privileged position. But that’s NOT how you use the term #集団自決 (mass suicide). minnanokaigo.com/news/special/y…
The term he used “集団自決” was commonly used during wartime for forced mass suicide by the Japanese Imperial Army, especially in #Okinawa. In other words, it is NOT a self-initiated suicide but one that is forced upon from those in power. economics.yale.edu/people/yusuke-…
LET THEM COMMIT MASS SUICIDE or
COMMIT MASS SEPPUKU (aka HARAKIRI)
@Yale Economics Assistant Professor #YusukeNarita proposed this as a solution for the aging population in Japan “before the elderies become a harm to society,” saying it would be “the ultimate Cool Japan policy.”
This is how he actually spoke on this ‘solution’ on a live TV news show #ABEMANews while asserting earlier that it is superfluous to present a ‘solution’ to a problem by blaming something without any logic or reason. Later, he said the ‘solution’ is to ELIMINATE the problem.