Chapter 159 "Stay content with the status quo" no matter what crisis you encounter

The following is a summary of this book. The last point I want to say is, what will happen when the real crisis comes when the current sense of crisis is lacking. Today's younger generation tends to be satisfied with "small happiness". They don't need a car or a computer. The life of "as long as they have a mobile phone, everything is ok" is a kind of "small happiness" without desire.They live in a closed world with no access to world information and a radius of less than 3 meters. Although adults sigh that they do not have classical qualities, adults do not realize that they lack modern qualities.

In this state, no matter what kind of crisis we encounter, I am afraid that everyone will just "be content with the status quo" and do nothing else. The "juvenile jump generation", which should have become the central force in Japan, does not take globalization into consideration at all. They only care about their own situation-it is enough to have friends, friendship, and similar things.They don't care what others think, to them: It seems that it is nothing to do with themselves.Such a generation is totally incapable of coping with a crisis.In other words, when they face a crisis, they will only accept the crisis as a crisis.Because there is no preparation and desire to fight, no matter what the situation, they just say "no way", "shouldn't be that bad" without taking any action, and they are concerned about the problems of the whole earth, Asia and Africa. The problem of poverty is also indifferent.

In their view, it doesn't matter if Japan declines, is abandoned by the world, and is played with.They think it is foolish to make Japan the economic power it once was, and that it is better to be content with the status quo and stay on the other side of East Asia than to go back to the past. Earlier I called this phenomenon the "Portuguese phenomenon". Portugal used to be the protagonist of the Age of Discovery, but after the country began to weaken, it quickly withdrew from the world's main stage with the idea of ​​"no way".Since then, the Portuguese have lived a poor life while recalling the glory of the past.

Portugal and Japan have a long history. In 1543, it was the Portuguese who floated to Tanegashima and introduced muskets to Japan. Saint Francis Xavier, who was the first to introduce Christianity to Japan, was also from Portugal. About 100 years before Japan closed itself off to the outside world, Portugal was the window for exchanges between Japan and the West. In today's terms, the Portuguese were the most globalized people in the world.When the Age of Discovery had just begun, Vasco da Gama and others went overseas.The Portuguese set up strongholds in distant Russia, South America and other places, and established a large colonial empire.

However, after colonial activities were replaced by the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom, Portugal somehow avoided the changes in the world so quickly, and then lived on the remaining colonies, and achieved almost nothing until the second half of the 20th century. However, in 1975, Portugal lost almost all of its colonies at once.As a result, the economy was in disarray, and materials centered on oil could not be purchased cheaply, and a large number of immigrants were attracted, further weakening the country's power.However, after Portugal joined the European Community (now the European Union) in 1986, the Portuguese government finally began to reform.

However, among EU member states, Portugal's GDP growth rate is the lowest, and its trade deficit is constantly expanding. Its economic source mainly depends on the foreign exchange obtained by overseas workers; agriculture is also very depressed, and half of its food and vegetables must be imported; the average life expectancy , The literacy rate is also the lowest in the EU. Part of the reason why Portugal has declined to this point is that it was immersed in the dream of controlling the colonies and did not complete the transition to a modern country in time, but the main reason is that the people have no sense of crisis at all. Japan is changing to become the second Portugal.

Although Japan's statement is "long-term economic stagnation", but if it continues like this, it will only decline.Soon, if the current "teenage jump generation" is in management, this tendency will become more pronounced.Because the consciousness of the Japanese has become—although I want to say something to the United States, let it go.If we are asked to dispatch the Self-Defense Forces... Although in principle it cannot be dispatched, forget it, let's dispatch it.China and South Korea are really unlikable, so try to keep as little contact with them as possible outside of the economy...

There's no point in writing any further, so here we go.This kind of consciousness is not rational at all, it is all perceptual things, and people who hold this kind of consciousness don't think at all. If one can analyze the current situation objectively and rationally, it is not difficult to find that without the protection of China, the largest trading partner and the US military power, there would be no Japan today.Because of the shortage of food and materials and lack of resources, Japan can only follow the trend of the global economy and continuously create new industries.If you don't do this, even survival will be a problem.

Although these views are rational, once this country is controlled by sensibility, all rationality will be useless.Because sensibility does not require the use of imagination, and under the control of sensibility, it is impossible to imagine a future where even "little happiness" cannot be realized.