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日記 part VIII
not quite there yet, but it’s a shot away.

How did we end up here? How did culture just end almost 40 years ago, fizzling out? A conscious middle class vanished along with…that had been, both surprisingly and argualbly, a mainstay in this process of society that culture is

Good night
January 11, 2026 at 11:58 PM
日記 part VII
Have we seen it before? The toxic morality of the latter half of the 19th century, trying to render women into an unliveable framework of ever-public judgement. While in their circles men were bragging about their institutionalized sexual abuse of any dependant in reach…
January 11, 2026 at 11:46 PM
日記 part VI
One huge factor in this failure of social cohesion is certainly the utter lack of discretion, having spread even among doctors, lawyers and clerics, who’ve sworn to uphold it, quite like a plague. Leaving everyone pock-marked, shy and confined to the emotional twilight
in the process…
January 11, 2026 at 11:38 PM
日記 part V
…me-me-meing one all the way to
a nervous breakdown. Longing for love, yet without any regard to emotional sustainability…but, don’t they wanna be loved tomorrow too? Doesn’t seem like it at least. Would be too much of a stake maybe…
January 11, 2026 at 11:35 PM
日記 part IV
…and still, everyone seems weirdly isolated, pressurable, emotionally exposed, pretty much spineless in consequenece, quite“atomized” to use Ahrend’s all too well fitting term. But there they are, longing for an attention they’re unable to offer at any given moment.
January 11, 2026 at 11:30 PM
日記 part III
On a granular scale, it’s the individual misery that I find appaling once I have to look around…and right now, there seems to be nothing else to see here.
Affluent poeple, undisturbed by the dire straits that climate change and post-colonial ruthlessness put the developing countries in…
January 11, 2026 at 11:27 PM
日記 part II
But is that sudden shift engulfing a whole society (whose values and ideas we still rely upon 2500 years later)…as described in Thukidides 82 coming to anyone else’s mind..? Having gone from Perikles to Kleon…that’s what feels like..for me at least…
January 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
日記 January 11th part I
what an age of misery, even apart from the disasters in foreign policy whe’re coming to whitness kinda daily now…reminds me of that old curse
“may you live in interesting times”
January 11, 2026 at 11:23 PM