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A comment on A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hikikomori’ (2009). Parent comment

Re:A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hi... by tboyd47 on Monday May 01, 2017 @09:50AM (#14237422)
Thank you for sharing. This comment thread is 10x as enlightening as the linked article. I am only curious, what specifically about adult life had such a powerful destructive effect?
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Re:A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hi... by ptr_void on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:48PM (#14239161)
A guess, but I think it's due to full confrontation of the realization that: What's meaningful is almost never economical.
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