An Accidental Post

Japanese society will always be a partial mystery to me. While it's easy to go down that awkward and terrible road of "Oh those Japanese are so mysterious! So unique! They've got it figured out, it's the West that's wrong!", don't worry, I'm not going there. It's stupid. Just that simple.

However it's equally stupid to say "All societies are fundamentally the same. We're all human after all!" This is only true in so far as we all like to eat and have sex, and I guess the most basic difference between societies is how they deal with and sanction these two most basic functions. Maybe from the sanctions revolving around these two basic (and fantastic) needs all of the other differences between societies fall naturally into place.

I think I just accidentally stumbled onto something really profound here. This isn't where I intended this post to go and I'm not really prepared to develop this idea any further, so I'll just post it like this and let y'all contemplate.

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