Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Japan Reporter" channel.

  1. Stephen Shaw (who is japan based), has pointed out that mothers have As many children as ever. The problem is people who don't get or stay married, basically the old social structures of arranged marriage and courting, as well as large but close family and community structures served a purpose. Capitalism has It's place but it is a consuming force, if you put all your crops into the fire it will burn ferocious but you will have nothing to plant; it will go out and you will be both hungry and cold. Ultimately the national, social, ethnic, cultural and human existence is worth continuing over GDP figures or short-term prosperity. The real trouble is uncertainty, if people feel like they will be supported in having kids they will have them, this is not in child care, which has serious detrimental impacts on children and costs a bomb, this is in community support structures, reliable work and a feeling of purpose. There is a reason that fertility is heavily tied to religion. Likewise Japan should learn to decouple from western innovations, many of these are hardly good, and only become worse when made more efficient in the hands of the Japanese. Also if you have immigration limit it to native European families and Chinese and Koreans who speak the language, even that would be a struggle, but it would not destroy the Japanese people. Also your politician is mad, and ignorant, and I say that as someone to the considerable right of him.
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  2. My God bring you to himself.
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  3. The best thing about being friendless in Japan is that you don't even have to be in Japan to have no friends there.
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  4. Don't be split, be proud.
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  5. London is straight up the worse place in Britain by a country mile, and I say that as someone who grew up there. Plenty of charities it's just that most are poorly disguised money laundering operations or fronts for political shenanigans (guess how extinction rebellion are funded). British is unfortunately a sinking ship under there is absolutely no possibly of democratic reform given the current state of the political system. Yeah the cultures awful, the problem is finding people outside of it, it's easy to not participate but have to form counter-action without anyone else, the traditionalists have the problem of being a large movement of people who want to break out of the paradigm, settle down and start families but they are over 95% male and a lot of the outlier don't seem to understand that it's a genuine sentiment and not a bizarre sexualized roleplay movement and so the tend to not fit in very well by sexualizing themselves thinking it will earn them brownie points. We'll have to see were things go but from where I'm standing the only thing the establishment is doing is piling up kindling around themselves alongside earning the deep enmity and resentment of significant portions of the population, increasingly the only card they hold is compulsion through hard power, most of the legitimacy has been stripped away and is now viewed with contempt.
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  6. Knowing how a lot of young Asian men dress you wouldn't even be able to know if they are just gay friends.
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  7. You are getting people from a newly low trust society, who are coming to gawk at a high trust one, let's be honest, most tourists have an entirely superficial interest in the culture, they aren't going to conform to a new set of behaviours for the sake of a few days out of their life, no matter if doing so is easy or hard, they are driven by convenience, not care.
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  8. Ban it all.
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  9. Yeah, they are way too welcoming, if they knew a bit more they would be a lot less.
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  10. In my country the countryside is facing the same problems due to mass immigration, a quarter of the country are now foreign born immigrants, more if you count the generational immigrants, most of whom haven't integrated much if at all.
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  11. Christ, this is probably the most twisted outlook on life I've ever heard, and I'm used to dealing with Marxist academics.
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  12. Fantastic video as usual, here what I think of some of what was said. The economics of Japan is so much better than many western countries, sure it isn't modernised and the work environment is tough but young people can afford a house, that isn't a thing here. A lot of the men need to get their priorities straight, it is fine to suffer hardship if you can have children, were is the purpose in dying without having ever contributed and to be buried as the last in your line, your ancestors gave you your opportunities you shame them by putting your life to waste, they brought up large families with a much worse economic situation and suffered though tragedy, don't complain about such petty things. With what the women said a mother contributes many times what a working woman does, a working woman does the labour of one, a mother provides many workers for the future, she if you are high flying you could give the nation and world as many high flying people as you have children just by passing on your capability at home. There is a reason only recent societies have been foolish enough to put women into the workforce, they deflate wages now so that there no people to get paid tomorrow. Technology won't help, selecting sperm in IVF and the like leads to birth defects as does waiting to long to have children, it is only in contravention of nature that women don't have children young, it is what their body is designed around and thus complications are much more likely to occur the later things are left. These areas with better birth rates largely work by attracting people who want to have children, they are a statistical illusion. People have duty, it is not a right to steal from the future in order to ruin now, that is what debt is. People do need to have kids and if the government has to kick women out of work, ban porn or suppress the entertainment industry then so be it, the costs would be much less than doing nothing. I agree that Japan needs more positivity, it sounds like you do too, Japan is very insular many of the things you thing are bad are much worse in every other country, the fact that it is not ignored is a very good sign but perspective also needs to be understood, things not being prefect is an expectation treating it like a justification to not do things is only relinquishing the future to those who care less. As God commanded be fruitful and multiply. That should go before anything else as without it that anything else won't matter at all in just a little time.
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  13. The way to deal with this is to track down the financial links and the breadth of the operation. Snap up as many of the operators as possible and the publicly make an example of them. Raise the risk threshold for behaviour like this. Also stop sending lone girls to university, it's always been a bad idea and serves no real purpose, developed countries need stable families and large ones, not even more wage slaves for the GDP charts. Women working only deflates wages and is the definition of a short term solution to a long term problem.
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  14.  @AlwaysHope_  Of course I’m biased, I’m a westerner myself (British), and of the current generation (zoomer, though I’m on the older end of that and it shows). I don’t think its too far to say that modern western societies aren’t Christian (especially in western Europe, but that fact that values systems today are being spread through education and mass media today more than parents means that its a concern everywhere), but rather believe in a socially constructed reality and the same marxist hogwash which has been inspiring human tragedy for the last century.  I am a Christian myself and fundamentally believe that values and the philosophies based on Christianity form the best system for life, but I also live in a context where I am the only Christian my age I know and the church is counter to its mission (the church of England that is). There is a lot of internal literature by academics which is extremely forthright about where they come from and what they aim and at current there is little possibility they will fail to put in place what they wish for, my country has a conservative government, we also had 1 million immigrants last year, the economy is being driven off a cliff and talking about publicly accessible facts about what happened at Rotherham and is still happening elsewhere on a public account could get me a criminal record. Thus I feel it is imperative that east asian countries absolutely do not take of board what the west is giving at the moment, plus we have the same problems but worse in regard to the thing supposed solutions are being given for.
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  15. You sound like you are outlining historical British foreign policy.
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  16. I come from Europe, you don't know what you are talking about, we live off debt as well and living conditions are deteriorating, things are terrible and there is a profound sense of hopelessness and nihilism. On top of this talking about it is increasingly restricted and the media and government lie to our faces.
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  17. You are merely the follower of a different religion, it is unsurprising that you have antagonism towards the opposition.
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  18. May God bless and be with you always, in this life and the one to come.
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  19. Lol, most of us were raised by older mothers, they usually saw the wall closing in. Terrible mothers for the most part, though a lot is the fault of society as much as age. Hopefully you are talking early thirties, because after that the risk of being born with problems because of it shoots up.
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  20. It's because Japanese people are comparing standards of living to Japan 40 years ago and foreigners are comparing Japan to everywhere else. Literally all these problem exist and are much much worse in western countries, and unlike them Japan isn't also unsafe and their government isn't actively malicious. Nor is it being destroyed by importing people into a nation with a 1000 years of history and displacing whole regional cultures at a time with the ancient and intractable foes of those very people. Japan is incredibly rosy to a foreigner. You can buy a house, you are relatively safe, the institutions are functioning. Things like the economy looking good or a set track to professional success are not something they were ever expecting, indeed young westerners mostly don't expect pensions as they don't see the modern state winning it's battle with financial irresponsibility.
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  21. Ban porn.
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  22. You don't have to be an expert to have an opinion and given some of the stuff experts have come out with in the past that is probably a good thing.
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  23. I think it is important that Japan does not westernise. It might not seem like it from the outside but the west is the sick man of civilisations, these problems are endemic in western countries alongside many many others and the nail is that it is all heading in a worse direction without regard. Solutions to social issues should be found in successful examples not loud ones. A return to Japanese Confucian principals or the strategic adoptions from the old foundational Christian social models that the west used to have would be far more useful in actually solving problems rather than pathologising or obfuscating (which is what people who claim that social issues are just the cost of progress do) them. The responses in the west are entirely ideological so Japan is already greatly ahead in finding solutions and at this rate will continue to be just by not engaging in self harm.
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  24. There are a lot of studies and have been since the 70's sex and violence are not at all the same in terms of normalisation, porn is more like watching gore videos than videogames, the psychological effects are massive and people quickly build up tolerances and move on to worse stuff. Turkey Tom did a video yesterday, I recommend that to see the effects in the flesh.
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  25. I am of the younger generation, 20% of those who went though such a curriculum say they are gay, which makes me think either that it is not very balanced or that it is socially contagious, my interest is history I can say with certainty that history would have been different if there were actually that many people hiding their sexuality. Personally I think it should not be taught until an understanding of what is going on is reached, unless that happens then the idea that sexuality is something you are born with will likely be delegitmised and I don't need to tell you the chaos that will cause, I would at least hope that it doesn't extend worldwide, but I guess it will be another factor in the mess which will be the next decade.
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  26. Prostitutes exist everywhere, the issue is the inability to form relationship not the ability to buy them. Those guys are wanting wives rather than anything, it's a common historical social problem in polygamous societies, usually a violent one.
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  27. There are plenty of jobs so long as you don't insist on being an office worker. Japan is as short of farmers as it is doctors.
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  28. This is the norm with history lessons, in Britain even very important events have little to no coverage. The extreme lack of context means that most people in the younger generation literally don't care as they have no means of evaluating the utility of knowing anything about the subject. A lot of other subjects are hit by a similar mindset and circumstances, as someone almost totally self-educated I can't even begin to tell you where the education system could fix the issue, it frankly seems like the whole thing is a lost cause. That said it is certainly the case that older generations have a much better knowledge base stemming from education so in way the decline does show a possibility of doing things better.
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  29. I would say that the bombing is a lot less complicated than what happened afterwards. Japan was planning to fight to the death under the military, this is not hyperbole, the military plan was to make Japan so costly to take that no one would bother, from the allied perspective they would likely lose millions of men to a conventional assault and from the Japanese every civilian would be expected to die for the national good, on top of this was the wider situation, Japan is not a rich country and by this period in the war supply lines had largely been cut, even as things were people were starting to starve. If anyone knows anything of the early months of occupation they will know that many did die of starvation even with the full efforts of the red cross and the newly arrived occupying troops. If Japan had not surrendered when it did starvation would have killed more than the fighting itself, a large portion of the population likely would have died. As such the quick ending of the war actually saved lives. The controversial point is what happened post war, the war trials were frankly rigged, innocent men were made scapegoat and guilty let off for political expectancy, especially those of the imperial house but also men who have inflicted grotesque human experiments in return for their research notes. The country was made a puppet and the constitution written to American interests, the old educational establishment was destroyed by banning the old teachers from working and in effect the subversive elements of Japanese society were given reign, this lead to decade's of educational strife as the communist aligned teaching union fought with the department of education and the parents organisations. The conduct of the occupation troops was in large part disgraceful (I'm talking about the mass r*pes) and very few were properly punished. American extended a hand in rebuilding Japan, but it was largely as a logistical hub and bulwark against enemies in the region, once Japan started doing well they changed tact and started treating Japan as an economic threat, as Japan is resource poor they had little recourse and the economic downturn this caused is ongoing. The cultural influence of America while it has been useful in implanting a more stable political system and finally ending some of the more barbaric native practices (such as the selling of children) has caused immense harm culturally, imports like the American dating system and various ideologies are immensely destructive to a nation built on extreme particularities largely alien to the systems with which they are forced to interact, these things are a disaster in their home country, they are cataclysmic in foreign ones. More current American influence is just plain bad, the influence of failed western ideological projects is being heavily lobbied for by western NGO's and diplomacy, but to be blunt western ideology is based in western assumptions and entirely destructive to native culture as it supplants it, in terms of policy, mass immigration is the single best means to put an end to the distinct existence of Japan and the Japanese not to mention the utter civil strife it has caused in the nation's already victimised be it. To listen to American at this point is to listen to the devil for the results at least are much the same.
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  30. It is one of the easiest points to fix, changing your personality is less good if in is merely a facade. Weight is a matter of willpower and time or just buying less food.
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  31. Closed borders are good borders.
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  32. Pretty much, and even that can only make things easier, there is no magic cure all for her conditions. I'm surprised by the number of people with options at odds with what is shown who think that someone who can't manage basic paperwork or a job can manage to ride off into the sunset happy and sitting on a pot of gold, she does not just exist in the video, she will have to manage her issues her entire life and the issues themselves leave her hardly in a state to do so.
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  33. As was pointed out it's in the case of people wanting their kids to get the best education they can, most counties don't allow single mum's to send their kids to private or additional tuition just off of welfare and some of those countries are so generous with said welfare that single motherhood is seen by some as a life choice because of it. If you want your kids to have the best opportunities in education in Japan then that is expense even if you are married to a salaryman or both work, which is why income is such a big demand for women of such a mindset when on the marriage market.
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  34. It seems like the solution doesn't lay in normalizing divorce or becoming westerners (considering their divorce rate that actively wouldn't help). The solution seems to be to demonize cheating and to hold people responsible for it in the eyes of society whether it leads to divorce or not. Changing attitudes around marriage might also help, if you want love you have to cultivate it, it takes hard work but 'discovering' it is like panning for gold and has the same chance of long term prospects. If you want to work for the sake of your child work on your relationship. Obviously in this case the woman is faultless and once someone has broken vows it is beyond fixing. Demonizing the women who sleep with married men might be something as well. But such men can always lie, cheat with cheaters or go to prostitutes. Maybe we need some ancient wisdom, I believe the bible's was 'stone them, stone them all'.
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  35. Japan should limit foreign influence, wealth does not have any seeming effect on the number of children people have so focusing on the wealth of the population is of secondary importance as wealth is worthless if there is no-one to inherit it. The fact the the West is having the same problem as Japan is enough to not bother with their solutions, one should only adopt solutions that actually work and most western solutions have if anything proven the opposite. The eraser of traditional values and culture is not reversible and thus is not something that should be entered into heedlessly.
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  36. Have you tried patron, I think your videos are well made and important, you could probably raise money from the viewership.
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  37.  @raylenn4444  That is an utterly materialist and inhuman perspective, though also an exceedingly common one. Humans are group animals not lone survivors in a post-apocalyptic fiction and families are not just for tax benefits. Morals are necessary for a society to grow in the first place as people will find it difficult to cooperate without common understanding of acceptable behaviour, if you think people run roughshod over it now you should see what would happen if they could plead ignorance or find offence at every slight. Societies are made up of people, it is natural that they should restrict freedom because different people’s personal freedoms conflict, the society mediates to find a compromise so that the right of strength, coin or power does not dominate over all.
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  38. People need purpose to live. Purpose requires responsibility. Without either is there is only really social pressure, pride and survival to make living like a ghost insufficient in justification. Give people a role and they will fight to honour that trust. The best role lays in family as that is the buildingblock of civilisation. Work on the other hand can only be measured in money.
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  39. It's to do with social competition among females, not objective reality, for many women objective reality is socially contingent. It is a prestige marker and way of identifying status.
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  40. Yay, a corporate oligarchy in which children are farmed, what a bright future, I look forward to the soylent green.
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  41. Sexuality and violence are very different in terms of normalizing things, indeed given they you are defending it you likely already know that as it's on the level where it's observable. Porn use leads essentially to a tolerance building up and people moving deeper into depravity for their kicks, it also engains fetishes. Violent videogames are more at outlet for violent impulses than a magnifier of them, those they don't really help either. Both keep men, including possible predators of the street, by porn creates more predators, spreads depression and despondency and with the internet you don't need to be on the streets to cause harm. Turkey Tom did a video yesterday, I recommend you watch it as the whole thing is basically an example of the problem. The argument isn't at these point whether it is bad, it's to what extent, whether we should deal with it, and how, as I'm not a libreal I think yes and Jesus respectively, on a wider level banning it and improving society are needed.
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  42. I wonder if the attitude towards prostitution was taken into account by the study. Either way the numbers are very high, it might in part be that a society with community based morals has adopted increasingly a individualized structure from a society where individual moral accountability (to absolutist moral principles and in an internally consistent reality) supervised by a higher power with the threat of eternal damnation was the context of development. Certainly the move away from such a framework and the implementation of the results of other belief systems is not going terribly well in the west (you end up with problems like the undermining of belief in objective reality by competing ideological faiths), but in a country without the same foundations it is dubious that it can hold up at all. The family vs work problem is certainly one of the primary ones facing Japan and I will get off the fence and say that family is absolutely more important and a touch of Confucianism might be in order to fix the current problems even if westerners would likely screech like they had been doused in holy water.
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  43. Only Afghanistan and Africa don't have declining populations, but that doesn't meant that people can't still be shifted from one country to another.
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  44. Saying you are the brother of Jesus is typically taken as announcing that you are a cult, it does after all imply that you are the son of God and a perfect human, both of which are pretty substantial claims. There are a variety of cults which are semi-derived from Christianity but they don't tend to be classified as Christian by anyone but themselves if there their beliefs are in contradiction to the religion enough of an extent. Likewise Mormons call themselves Christians but are classified as their own religion by everyone else, same with a number of stereotypical exploitative cults including communes of Nazi (as in straight up WW2 ones) child abusers and any number of death cults. The Chinese even had a civil war with a different proclaimed brother of Jesus and received western support in doing so (famously Gordon of Khartoum was involved). Equally I can claim to be the long lost twin brother of the Prophet Mohammed but the fact I would claim such a thing is probably a sign that I'm not a Muslim. I believe the channel ready to harvest made a video on this exact topic which probably explains it better than I could and he's an academic on the subject as well.
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  45. The probably just haven't got with the program yet, unless they are all in Harry Potter merchandise it's pretty likely that they are part of the wider movement.
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  46. It is merely that other religions have become dominant, though they prefer the name ideologies.
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  47. This video seems to have attracted the wrong crowd if the replies are anything to go by.
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  48. It's just that women the same age as the older party try to gatekeep as they are either jealous of a women who can attract a younger man or upset about the fact that men their own age aren't interested in them.
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  49. Your plan goes awry when you fail to ever pass on your genes in the first place, this is why the birth rate is so low btw, married people are still having as many kids as ever is just that a lot of people never have any at all due to chasing pipe dreams or wanting it all.
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  50. The no dyed hair and only black hair rules contradict, they should only keep the no dyed hair rule. Strict school rules mean that troublemakers end up fighting against school uniform rules rather than something more important, it pushes out the frontline of the school and means that hopefully the students act of rebellion will be harmless to themselves (if you know teenagers you will know that their acts of rebellion are often self destructive) and if contain as much as possible any impact on those around them. The whole human rights discourse is unhelpful. You don't innately deserve anything, you must fight for what you want and be thankful for what you have. The schools do need to teach about prioritization however, the salary man ideal is worthless without something to work for, and that thing must be more important than work by being the motivation for it (e.g. spend more time with your kids rather than working to pay for them to go to a million clubs and extra curricula activities).
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