Comments on: Orthogonal Thinking, Humanity Declines

By: omo

omo — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:00:19 +0000

On a very basic level, “organic/fair-trade” stuff has more traction out west because it’s easier to afford those things and people have more choices. I see it rather in the opposite end, where Japanese people are more often victim of poorly controlled cheap production and general pollution and other by-products of industrialization. That’s how they’re somewhat more sensitive.

To that degree, speaking as an American, I think Jintai’s earlier episode on Bread and Chicken speak in general enough terms (or fantastical enough terms) that the message isn’t lost.

As for decline, well, I don’t want to say humanity is in decline, but let’s just say to pessimists the cup is always half empty no matter what language they speak or country they live in.

By: vendredi

vendredi — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:02:27 +0000

To be honest I think Jinrui started off with the right foot – a critique of industrialized food production/consumption. That’s something you rarely see tackled in anime, or heck, any other media for example, but the movement towards organic/fair-trade/local/something “not industrial” has tons of traction in the West.

In a sense I’ve always wondered if Japan sort of represents a potential model of a future American long economic decline. Like Gibson said in one of his interviews, the Japanese were cyberpunk before he started writing cyberpunk.

By: omo

omo — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:48:09 +0000

lots of those

By: jpmeyer

jpmeyer — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:38:20 +0000

I watch Jintai in hopes of seeing scenes of faeries peeing.

By: omo

omo — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:25:06 +0000

Well, that too is a perception of decline as you put it.