It is tomorrow in Japan. It is really strange living a day ahead of the world I come from. I see it in the posts I make. I see it in the blogs I read. It isn’t just the hour shift. When I look at the date and time app I see that today hasn’t even arrived yet back home. It requires planning to know when to make phone calls. I have found that calling someone in the afternoon and finding them sound asleep is not good for relationships.
Japan also has some aspects of America in the past. There is an honesty here that we used to have in the States. I have been watching a bike that some kid left on the curb. Three weeks later it is still there. No one has stolen it. When you go to the airports you find that the baggage carts are free.
Some aspects of Japan are like America’s future. Socialism is part of life. Regulations are omnipresent. That causes the price of everything to be very high and wages to be very low. It is part of the reason that Japanese homes are smaller and cars are tiny. They are not hungry but they also are limited in expectations. It is like Boston in the People’s Republik of Massachusetts, it is a great place to visit but I would not want to live here.
homo unius libri
Many countries seem to want just enough capitalism to get trade and taxes up, but not enough to where the people start having hopes and dreams of living better.
ReplyDeletePeople with dreams become a problem. The left may find the the fantasy they are selling the snowflakes will come back to bite them.
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You better come back to the states soon. So much fun stuff going on this week.
ReplyDeleteI am back. I thought I mentioned in my first of this series that some would be published in present tense because that is how I wrote them. My children have a sense of security that defies the imagination. Imagine if someone was reading my blog and knew I was gone for three weeks. I might arrive home to find all my Twinkies eaten. Neurotic, I know.
DeleteIf you were "your Excellency" before what will you be if you win class prez?
Grace and peace.