
Journal mercedo's Journal: Enclosed Outside Japan 7
It was probably 1984 or 5 still I was an undergraduate student when French philosopher Jacques Derrida came to Japan to see Akira Asada, Kojin Karatani. In their talk, Derrida used French and English, Asada used French, English and Japanese, Karatani used English and Japanese. Anyway they were able to communicate whatever the tool of communication might be. In their conversation, Karatani said, 'The extremely rapid growth of Japan's capitalism that has been taking place right now is as a phenomenon an extraordinary thing, so I can't help enclose inside Japan all the more.' Derrida's replay was this, 'I'd like to rather enclose outside Japan.'
Both Philosophers were seeking for what the nature of capitalism in progress worldwide those days, but their objective of study was different.
Derrida was gone, but Karatani is now in America. For those who are interested, here're some links.
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Money is power- and power corrupts. The problem with capitalism is that being eager to seek wealth isn't enough- nowhere close. Most people living under capitalism seek wealth. The problem is to actually find wealth, you need wealth- it's a chicken-and-egg problem. That's why capitalism eventually breaks down into corporatism and feudalism- because
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The easier part is that trying to be superrich is a rare (.00003% of the human race will achieve this, worldwide) but INDIVIDUAL accomplishment (regardless of the fact that by these numbe