Chapter 117 Not only the "collective IQ" is low, but also the "collective memory" is low

If the Yamato nation is really a nation of principles and ideas, then it should be like Jews and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, in order to stick to their ideas at all costs (I am not affirming war).However, in front of the Americans, the Japanese said "give me chocolate" on the second day after the end of the war.From the perspective of other nations, this is very incomprehensible. But the Japanese think it's normal. In today's words, this is equivalent to "clear memory", "empty".Clearing all the things that have been accumulated with great difficulty in an instant should be a difficult task that requires a lot of energy, but the Japanese can do it without breaking a sweat.This also means that we forget everything that happened yesterday in the blink of an eye.I have to say that the Japanese not only have low "collective IQ", but also low "collective memory".

Now back to the topic.When the fourth chapter talked about "postal elections", the victory of the Liberal Democratic Party with Koizumi as the core and the victory of the Democratic Party in the Senate later, this kind of behavior with diametrically opposite differences was also forgotten by the citizens at the same time.In addition, during the bubble economy, the stock market was rock solid; after the bubble economy collapsed, the whole market plummeted, and this was also forgotten. When I think about it now, these things seem to have happened yesterday, but they have already been pulled out of the memory system.And the act of "forgetting" itself should be accumulated as a kind of memory, but even this kind of memory has disappeared without a trace.

Some people say that because the Japanese are like this, it has nothing to do with the decline of IQ, but a problem of consciousness, so no matter what reform efforts the government makes, it will be futile.Indeed, there are many people who agree with this view. It's okay to agree, but not to just accept it. Because once the concept of "Japanese Particularism" is accepted, I am afraid that all problems cannot be solved.If "Japan is special", then "the United States is also special" and "China is also special".The peoples and nations of the world are special, so the problem is not there.The problem is that the consciousness of the Japanese is like this, so the collective IQ has not improved, and the collective IQ cannot be improved no matter when.Then what should be done?

I hope that everyone will think with the question raised at the beginning of this chapter (if the Japanese people do not think, then who will benefit in the end?), then at least the behavior of everyone in the collective can be changed.