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Why would a sophisticated culture like the Japanese one adopt so much of Western culture? Was it because of the post war stigma they were facing?

But between the people who produce things over and above what they consume, and send them out into the world, and the people who don’t produce anything and who do nothing but consume, which are the great human beings? Which are the important human beings? If you ask yourself this, it’s not much of a puzzle, is it?

I knew I was useless

Picking up books that my 16yo self would have called boring is my new character arc