Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Leisure

"Leisure" --this and Many Many other words eist in japanese, but only in Katakana. Due to the nature of Katakana and its use, this means that there never was any original Japanese word for "leisure". Due to the one-in-the-same nature of language and culture, that means that there is NO concept of "leisure" in the Japanese culture!
Similar to Western concepts of freedom (almost every form) and personal property, leisure was a word used quite a lot especially since the Enlightenment, and has come to form a basis for all Western (Democratic) societies today!
And the Japs never had it. To them, it is a foreign concept, and one that will forever remain so; at least for as long as they insist on keeping with the segregation of their language, which is the clearest form of segreagation of ideas and their origins. Unlike English, which spells all things in the same 26 latin letters, and therefore inevitably draws in and absorbs new ideas and concepts.
Which will last longer, dear people? The culture with historically self-destructive properties (yet an equal habit of continuing anyway ,perhaps due to sheer force of numbers alone), or the idea and the concept, which is, in all reality, utterly bulletproof?

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