Due to the nature of this book I don’t believe spoiler alerts are necessary, but still make sure to write where you are when you discuss things since you want to give context for people to know what you’re talking about and where to look for it.
I am happy that this time the author cited no expert who said 人目 and 恥 don’t exist in Western countries. So I can freely admit that I also think that both reduced with time.
But then I asked myself, is this actually the case? Maybe it’s just that the reduction comes with growing old and the sensitivity level of young people of each generation remained the same. And the author himself getting older with time - as we all - just therefore thinks sensitivity went down. What do you think?
Edit: But otoh the general level of sensitivity probably even increased in the younger generations as “their world“, the people whom they care about, got larger via the internet. But the text is probably pre-Social Network, so the author could not include this aspect.
We have history from hundreds to thousands of years ago complaining about the “kids these days”. I take pretty much every one of these arguments with a huge grain of salt. Once both generations become historical it’s usually just the same complaints that every generation has about the next.
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