News from Japan, hot off the press.....

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/106964/
Japan-Pays-Foreign-Workers-to-Go-Home

Before reading this blog post, read this article from Yahoo! finance. Don't just read it , actually. Bother to understand it. If it doesn't interest you, then neither will this post. I advise you to leave. But if it does interest you, then stay on. I have lots to say.


The post:
Can you believe this news from Japan? It's a sure sign that the recession is rapidly turning into a depression. A country would give its Latin American workers money to leave the country? The reason that Japan is doing this, or so it claims, is because there are currently no good jobs available, and these emigrants are taking the jobs of the Japanese. But Japan needs these emigrants to do precisely that- fill jobs! The three K's, as the article mentions, are mostly filled by Latin-American emigrants. But they argue that Japanese people should be filling these jobs. I'm sorry, but that to me just sounds really nationalist. It shows that Japan is not willing to welcome a multi ethnic community.Japan argues that the U.S.A, an immigrant country, has been a failure. Now, let us inspect the evidence carefully. The U.S.A. v. Japan.
Japan
-lost WWII
-Not a superpower in the world anymore
-hasn't influenced so many other countries and healed the wounds of the rest of the world like the U.S.A.
-not NEARLY as influential as the U.S.A and doesn't have as good of a military force

U.S.A.
-Won WWII
-a world superpower
-has influenced other countries, and helped them back on their feet, liberated Paris during WWII for example
-Has a good strong military force

You guys, don't get me wrong. Japan is an AMAZING country. I would love to go there someday. But the evidence shows... the U.S.A. is not a failure. We're so influential because all the immigrants and emigrants bring new thoughts and fresh ideas to our country. After all, Einstein was an immigrant.

(please do not take this as an article against the Japanese, I do not mean to offend anyone, just stating evidence!)

Modern Society (or, desire.)

Today I address the issue of conformism. We all feel an inescapable desire to do one thing: Fit in. In the previous sentence, notice my use of the word "desire." A fundamental principle of Buddhism- Desire is the root of all misery. So I suppose this discussion (monologue) all comes back to desire. Simple and basic. All humans desire. Those who do not have rid themselves of it by years of meditation and devotion to making the world a better place. Those without desire have attained nirvana. The ones who have attained nirvana are supposedly the happiest. They have no emotional attachment, meaning anything can be taken away from them, but they will still be happy. If they lose a loved one, they are indifferent because love is an emotional attachment. They have no supposed "love." The first question about all this is- Is attainment of nirvana achievable? Can it be reached? The idea of Communism is built off of this. Nirvana, or a state of human perfection, free of desire, can be attained, but only by means of violence. Buddhism, as a religion, does not believe in violence. So how can this be achieved? That is what my research is attempting to discover. No one yet knows. The second question about all this is- Is nirvana a good thing? My answer- Yes and no. My personal opinions on this are completely split and I must say I do not have enough hard evidence to make this decision yet. Sometimes I think, yes, it is good, why would you want man to suffer? But other times I think- If nirvana means no emotional attachment love would not exist. And then how would our species stay alive? Without love humans would die out! And back to modern society. You don't have to rid yourself of ALL desire, but in my opinion, the desire to conform might be a good desire to get rid of. You can't live all your life just pleasing other people.