The preponderance of the J population towards manners, patience and sacrifice is HUGE —you saw this at Fukushima.
I love this country, but we not only lack this group-centric mentality, but the past 50 years has produced people who think the government must give them everything —even bus rides.
Just look at Katrina —THAT is more what is in store for us.
The parallels between the 2 collapses have been eery. Here was the funny thing in Japan: early on there was denial that there had been any collapse, and then they, too, started lying about a recovery.
The more it became clear there was no recovery the more and more shrill those declarations become; even weird, Twighlight-zonish broadcasts about, “Remember the collapse..?! Gosh that was a doozy...!!”
Sure everyone remembered —cuz they still hadn’t the chance to forget.
I’m seeing all that this time around, also.
Maybe we’ll start hearing denunciations of those who “sabotaged” the “recovery”?
Absolutely right.