Nothing about this is natural. Every single aspect that made us in the way we are, is all pre-planned and artificial. Every single "civilized" society has been turned nihilistic, consumerist, and pacifist. Egalitarian and feminine. Because when you kill the spirit, sustenance, all you have is flesh to feed on.
It's the same reason we do not rebel against the judeo-capitalist system. A thing that men had back in the day was spirit and a risk of Death that always creeped up their necks; starvation, disease, war, whatever the fuck made them die. The American Revolutionaries, the Geuzenvloot of the Netherlands, Freikorps, Napoleon, etc…
>The reason why Mishima was not taken seriously by the JSDF personnel, even though he emphasized Bushido, was probably because the JSDF personnel at the time had also already become inclined toward individualism and hedonism in economically prosperous Japan.">Shigeru MizukiAll of these Tatenokai millitiamen were young guys in their 20s that were born after Japan's devestating loss. They never knew battle, death, a god, etc.. Mishima, a man in his 40s grew up in a time without prosperity and in a time of fear and Death. So the disconnect was large, the descendants of his generation were alien to him. This hedonistic nihilism is even stronger in East Asia, because they have no concept of God. They don't have children, they just work themselves to death like bugs, that's why we call Asians bugs.
One of the examples are pistol duels. Whenever someone had resentment towards you, they would risk their life to preserve their honor. In North America and Europe they would just shoot at each other. Yes there were people in these times that tried to limit the practice, but it was a sign of alien times.
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