3mo ago

Japan’s Quiet Rebellion Against Growth: Instead of striving for more, Japan simply chose less

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That's a good thing. We all should do that.
Please edit the UTM trackers out of the link to: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/31/2336178/-Japan-s-Quiet-Rebellion-Against-Growth-Instead-of-striving-for-more-Japan-simply-chose-less
- Done, but who cares. It is the wrong origin anyway.
  
  That's the intention. The trackers serve as a signature that is used to track the flow of information and build up a shadow profile on you and whoever clicked the link. If you didn't use a VPN, Google now knows you personally are the sort of person to share this information, and will use that to feed you more seductive propaganda.
Me too, Japan, me too.
Sounds awesome. We should all do more of this (if the privilege exists).
Zhao is careful to distinguish between people who choose to want less and those who fail to act on their desires out of despair.
Are they really different? I could start in despair and then tell myself that's what I want. I think I do that with many things I don't have, basically turn my envy or desire into contempt for those who have those things.
- Getting to vs having to. Makes a big difference. Soldiers have to force march with a ruck; we get to hike the Appalachian Trail. One is an adventure and the others sucks.
  Being happy with less or growing to accept less is different from wanting more and being unable.
  
  Growing to accept less seems like capitulation to an unfair, unjust, and unstainable system... but then why would I want to participate in that anyway? This is confusing

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