「暇空茜さんが政治家としてふさわしくないということ、また僕たちには感謝の気持ちが足りないということ」おさんぽ日記 2024年6月22日/「”Himasoraakane” is not worthy of being a politician. We lack gratitude for peace and for those who supply it.」Osanpo-Nikki June 22, 2024
Akane Busyoku ran for the Tokyo gubernatorial election. And he is actively calling for votes for himself on social networking sites. He is posting “please,” “please,” and “please,” bowing his head desperately. This is unthinkable behavior from Akane Busy Sora, who is always bull-headed, never flattering anyone, blocks people immediately with impunity, blocks people only because they are involved with people he does not like, and asks them to do this or do that if they want him to block them, with such an attitude.
He said this, “He is always so bossy and never flirts with anyone, but this time he really wants to be the governor of Tokyo, so he is asking his followers to put aside their pride and bow down to him. He is amazing. This time he means it, let’s bet on him.” And then there are those like his cronies who take it as a sign that he is serious.
I don’t think so. It’s the opposite. He has always made no effort to win people’s hearts and minds, and when he finally gets a chance, he jumps at it and bows his head. It’s not serious, it’s just selfish. And there is no pride in bowing down at such a single chance. It is not pride, it is just castration and arrogance.”
I think. Recently, I have been reading a book about a politician named Shinzo Abe.
He has had an exceptional rise in the ranks of the political lower echelons. To put it plainly for those who are not familiar with politics, he became the youngest postwar prime minister at the age of 52. This, of course, is also amazing. But I thought his appointment as secretary-general in his third term as prime minister was extraordinary. I shivered when I read that scene.
But this is neither his track record nor a coincidence. Nor was it due to his family background. (Although it would not have worked in a negative way.) When he ran for office, he never failed to make individual visits in his hometown, Yamaguchi (in one village, he went door-to-door to every house…). Even after he was elected, he went around to support the Diet members who would not be elected even if he went to their places to give speeches, even though he had no money, because he could use his body. (At the time, he was gaining popularity with the public over the North Korean issue, so it was very reassuring and gratifying for the candidate to have Shinzo Abe there to support him.) Thus, Shinzo Abe’s exceptionally fast rise to power was the result of his tireless daily efforts.
In that sense, I think Shinzo Abe is a genius. I like geniuses. I like Elon Musk. I like Haruki Murakami. And I like Shinzo Abe.
I like Shinzo Abe, but Haruki Murakami is probably on the opposite end of the spectrum from the public’s point of view. But I like Haruki Murakami a lot. I have read all of his books. I have even read books that are out of print by his own choice. There is a certain novel that he has sealed away, which you have to go to the library in the next prefecture to read. (It is the prototype for his latest work, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls. You can read it in the chapter “In Dreams” in “The End of the World and the Hard-Boiled Wonderland” in the one on the front page. But he actually wrote this part of the work in the beginning. (I read it because I am his stalker.) Because I am a stalker of Haruki Murakami, I have read many books written about him. Most of them were crap. However, this sentence from a book is as beautiful as Haruki Murakami’s writing, and I quote it here because it is first-rate writing about a genius.
It is a very beautiful piece of writing that shows how Haruki Murakami’s seemingly aloof writing, heavily influenced by American literature, was in fact heavily influenced by “Japanese-ness” from his dudes and from careful observation of his work, and was the result of endless hard work. But again, his “creation” was not the result of an ambitious attempt to become a “personality. The “slimy as a newborn baby,” “a mass of death” (this part is emphasized with dots in the original text. It’s an old book.) In retrospect, people call those who have arrived at a “destiny” that does not belong to anyone else, while keeping “something like a baby” unseen and doing only what they are capable of doing, “genius” or “great individuality.
I can read this sentence as applying not only to a great novelist but also to a great politician.
In this light, I can only think that Akane Busanora is licking her chops too much over the election. If he really wants to get elected (and from his posts on social networking sites, it looks like he really wants to get elected), rather than just going out and creating a buzz, he is being too lenient, in my opinion. Also, personally, while he is an interesting risk-taker, I would not want him as governor because of his minimal consideration for his opponents, his “exclusionary” attitude toward opposing views, and most of all, his naivete in beating up on baseless things with his own convenient storylines. (Some of his slams are based on the wrong grounds, and some of the groups he criticizes are the opposite of what he is criticizing, and are doing good for the society.)
While talking to one local congressman, he said. I don’t like national legislators. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them out of existence.” I was a little disappointed to hear that.
I think it’s fine for local politics to cut budget waste and improve administration, of course.
However, there is one major premise on which all of this is based: that Japan is not involved in war. Peace, like running water and well-maintained roads everywhere, is not something that is taken for granted.
It is based on a great sense of responsibility by someone or some people, at the cost of their own lives, and with the expectation that they will receive only criticism rather than praise from the world (but I am sure that they have faith in the future of humanity, which will be appreciated hundreds of years from now).
Peace is not something to be taken for granted. If Japan is invaded.
Your girlfriend, A-chan, will be drugged and made crazy by people from X country, forced into a state of pleasure, but humiliated at heart, gang-raped, and finally killed by having her genitals burned with a gas burner, her eyes plucked out, and her fingers cut off one by one.
Your father, after having his wife humiliated in front of him, is stabbed with needles all over his body, dismembered, and killed while moaning in his own blood.
Your mother is gagged so that she will not die by herself, and is sexually played with from morning to night by people from other countries who also inject her with various drugs and play with her like a toy, and she gives birth to a child conceived in her. Then, in front of their eyes, the child is crushed and killed. This is repeated until their bodies are destroyed.
I believe that such things can happen in war. I have also heard, read, and seen things similar to this, even though I am young.
This is not an imaginary story. I think everyone is lacking a sense of crisis. I have never experienced war, but I know how lucky I am not to have experienced war, and I know that war is very close to us, and it can happen if we make the slightest mistake.
I have no intention of becoming a politician. I can’t be, I don’t have the qualifications to be, and I don’t have the personality to be. But I am grateful. I have a subordinate who used to work for the Japan Self-Defense Forces. I know how tough it is to work for the Self-Defense Forces, as far as I have heard from him.
We are neither politicians nor SDF personnel. So, shouldn’t we at least live our lives without forgetting to be grateful to them?
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June 22, 2024, about 20 minutes (I forgot to measure the time)
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