Re:Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
by BoorishBears on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:23PM
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I find that only a very specific demographic writes comments like this about Japan
From my point of view Japan is a bit like Alabama with a coat of cyberpunk drawn over, but that also has to do with how I'd be treated there.
I guess I'm glad it's a place that works for some people, but it shouldn't take much imagination to see how it's not the utopia you're describing unless you fit in a very specific bucket of being: that's what their society is essentially built on.
From my point of view Japan is a bit like Alabama with a coat of cyberpunk drawn over, but that also has to do with how I'd be treated there.
I guess I'm glad it's a place that works for some people, but it shouldn't take much imagination to see how it's not the utopia you're describing unless you fit in a very specific bucket of being: that's what their society is essentially built on.