All joking aside, the end of the article points out that this was, if not taken out of context, at least a gross oversimplification of the situation. The professor was talking about resources...
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
"Ethics for Tomorrow"
All joking aside, the end of the article points out that this was, if not taken out of context, at least a gross oversimplification of the situation. The professor was talking about resources being hoarded by people who aren't using them, and many of those people are old. However, the issue is the hoarding of wealth, not the age of the hoarder.
Isn't he? Unless I'm missing something, he doesn't seem to genuinely think any of this is an ideal solution and only presented it as a logical extension of how current Japanese socioeconomic...
Isn't he? Unless I'm missing something, he doesn't seem to genuinely think any of this is an ideal solution and only presented it as a logical extension of how current Japanese socioeconomic policies are going. It doesn't strike me as a Jordan Peterson style situation where an academic says some things that are divisive and uses it to build a cult political following, but all the articles about this are basically just saying the same thing without diving more into who he is and if he's got a pattern or behaviour of that kind of grifting. But based on a few of his other statements, he doesn't seem to be doubling down on these ideas, only that he seems to wish he was more rhetorically explicit.
All joking aside, the end of the article points out that this was, if not taken out of context, at least a gross oversimplification of the situation. The professor was talking about resources being hoarded by people who aren't using them, and many of those people are old. However, the issue is the hoarding of wealth, not the age of the hoarder.
Not that the different context makes his proposal any less objectionable.
That's the point.
Are you suggesting Dr. Narita is being entirely satirical?
Isn't he? Unless I'm missing something, he doesn't seem to genuinely think any of this is an ideal solution and only presented it as a logical extension of how current Japanese socioeconomic policies are going. It doesn't strike me as a Jordan Peterson style situation where an academic says some things that are divisive and uses it to build a cult political following, but all the articles about this are basically just saying the same thing without diving more into who he is and if he's got a pattern or behaviour of that kind of grifting. But based on a few of his other statements, he doesn't seem to be doubling down on these ideas, only that he seems to wish he was more rhetorically explicit.
There's a movie about this topic Plan 75.