mercedo's Journal: Swinging Between Illusion and Reality

In perception -My reality is not very bad, but still I like dreaming illusion -the moment we see once again. I am sure we see sometime in future, but I will return to the reality now I have. Probably we might feel nostalgia, but that keeps on what as it is. To tell the truth, nobody knows what will become of when we see once again. Anticipation impossible.

Speaking of illusion and reality

[Marxist Hacker 42]

This is something that came up in a conversation the other day. The American Dream, when I was growing up, was for your kids to do better than you did. This was true right up until the 1970s- since then we've had 2 generations slide backwards economically- and many people are angry that reality did not measure up to their expectations.

I remember studying Japan growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, and recognizing that there was a similar Japanese Dream- young men were trained to work in the same field as th

Re:Speaking of illusion and reality

[mercedo]

As you know, large portion of population in Japan came from Korea, but there's a basic difference. Korea was developed as a lineage based society, as a matter of fact, all the number of surnames Korean has counts just 100, as opposed to Japanese example, 150,000 (I think Anglo-Saxons are about 15,000 ) basically due to some surnames are directly derived from their profession, (for example, Baker, Thatcher, Smith are the examples of these.) There are many surnames named after their professions in Japan, main

Re:Speaking of illusion and reality

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I guess what I was trying to get at was the basic social contract. Here in America, there was an implied contract between children and parents- the parents would sacrifice for the children to get a better education, which would in turn lead to a higher level of income, and the children would use that income to take care of the parents.

Japanese version used to be, ages ago, the corporation would become the family- and in return, the corporation would take care of your family. This would inspire a loyalty

Re:Speaking of illusion and reality

[mercedo]

I am not eligible to say something about Japan Inc. , I am neither working in a company nor have worked more than one year in the same company. And I've never hoped to work in a company first of all.

So following statement is entirely based on mere assumption. I guess in Japan still life time employment and order by the years of those who are employed - the longer they are employed the higher their salary is and in sequence they promote, are prevailed. I used to read about the articles in which they say in

Re:Speaking of illusion and reality

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Amazing- but it does show one reason why the Japanese are not as disillusioned with capitalism as many in the United States are. Of course, in the US, we have a major corruption problem in campaign financing, so it's unlikely that any of the problems regular people have with capitalism will be fixed within our lifetimes.

I think I'd rather live under the Japanese system, where there is still honor and trust between employee and employer. But I've chosen an industry (computer programming) which discourages