Hurts me to see so many students, at all levels, clearly needing guidance, teaching, further examples, parallels, perspectives in handling the personally difficult.
In Japan it hurts more, too, because without personal learning, of personally-needed, personally-challenging matters (and how others faced these things in a…
Hurts me to see so many students, at all levels, clearly needing guidance, teaching, further examples, parallels, perspectives in handling the personally difficult.
In Japan it hurts more, too, because without personal learning, of personally-needed, personally-challenging matters (and how others faced these things in apt novels), Japanese youth just off themselves. Three times the rate of suicide of American youth the same age.
And then there's the new phenomenon of so many Japanese young adults not dating, not having any personal life -- corroborated in the U.S. by similar age young adults glommed unto social media too many hours a day, blotting out possibilities of getting out for real lives with others in any number of various public venues.
Not good, Kristin. So thanks again for yours from Tokyo.
Look at America, where the orange felon parades the success of just lying egregiously, enacting contempt at democratic institutions, calling for stochastic violence, routinely committing fraud, raping, abusing, insulting women.
An entire Republican party falls over itself to fall in line for the theatricality.
That Clarence court rather likes sensationalized criminality, rules it above the law (same law, or sets of laws that in their view permit their own perjury, condone their own brazenly taking bribes). Same court that has just ruled, too, to free our worst predators from the federal agencies who had regulated for public health, safety, and the environment.
The rule of commercial vulgarity, dark money, schools stripped of humanities bodes ill for all democracies, dark ages for all who have, or used to have, real cultures respecting individuals and all those nuances, subtleties, respect for life's complications -- what poet Joseph Brodsky reveled in calling our civilizational "loose ends."
But maybe, Kristin, American will turn out landslide fashion for our democracy, against the many ur-vulgar elites.
Thank you, Kristin.
Hurts me to see so many students, at all levels, clearly needing guidance, teaching, further examples, parallels, perspectives in handling the personally difficult.
In Japan it hurts more, too, because without personal learning, of personally-needed, personally-challenging matters (and how others faced these things in apt novels), Japanese youth just off themselves. Three times the rate of suicide of American youth the same age.
And then there's the new phenomenon of so many Japanese young adults not dating, not having any personal life -- corroborated in the U.S. by similar age young adults glommed unto social media too many hours a day, blotting out possibilities of getting out for real lives with others in any number of various public venues.
Not good, Kristin. So thanks again for yours from Tokyo.
It’s really a tragedy! What will happen to Japan’s beautiful culture?
Not just Japan, sadly, Kristin.
Look at America, where the orange felon parades the success of just lying egregiously, enacting contempt at democratic institutions, calling for stochastic violence, routinely committing fraud, raping, abusing, insulting women.
An entire Republican party falls over itself to fall in line for the theatricality.
That Clarence court rather likes sensationalized criminality, rules it above the law (same law, or sets of laws that in their view permit their own perjury, condone their own brazenly taking bribes). Same court that has just ruled, too, to free our worst predators from the federal agencies who had regulated for public health, safety, and the environment.
The rule of commercial vulgarity, dark money, schools stripped of humanities bodes ill for all democracies, dark ages for all who have, or used to have, real cultures respecting individuals and all those nuances, subtleties, respect for life's complications -- what poet Joseph Brodsky reveled in calling our civilizational "loose ends."
But maybe, Kristin, American will turn out landslide fashion for our democracy, against the many ur-vulgar elites.