Friday, November 1, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, November 4, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
A research group of the U. C. at Berkeley recently estimated using Kepler's data that about one in five sunlike stars in the Milky Way Galaxy hold earthlike planets in orbits around them. It's no wonder that there exist other planets where there is life, somewhere else. However, there is no guarantee that the human race might find traces of any life on the other earthlike planets or, on the contrary, might be found in the time of it.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
One of the usual countermeasures by Parvenus against the establishments in class-based hierarchical societies, mostly seen in Western countries, shall be talked about. Simply speaking, a countermeasure against the class societies has been taken by earning academic degrees such as a PhD and an MBA. Putting it bluntly, academic degrees are purchased for this purpose. In order to bring this plan to fruition, the acquisition of these academic degrees had to be expedited. They had to dig some loopholes to acquire these academic degrees more easily. By pretending to help some human rights activities, they also gather fellows from many human rights groups together in order to avoid being criticized.
It goes without saying that the people who are competent for these academic degrees should take the courses for them and should be granted them after the completion. The abuse of academic degrees such as a PhD and an MBA has become an issue of public concern. It's well known that this tendency is considerable in the US. It has become very significant since the late twentieth century. There, a countermeasure used to be against the white Protestant elites and currently, it may be against the white majority elites. As a consequence of the abuse of these academic degrees, the base salaries of the employees with these academic degrees soar disproportionately to their performances, so that the investments not only for manufacturing but also for research and development towards Asian countries with cheap and reasonable labor were accelerated gradually since then and the extent of this trend had become tremendous in the early 21st century. That's one of the causes of the recent US and global panic markets.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. My iMac G5 started hesitating to boot up this morning. Either it was a power supply unit or MOB went wrong probably. The leakage current of some of the dozens of troublesome capacitors in these units may have reached an unacceptable level.
The above-mentioned suspicious countermeasure relying upon the academic degrees that had geared up by pretending to help the human rights activities had become increasingly popular but as a result of falling into a cleverly set trap, it met with a stern hitch recently. Indeed, the people in the white upper-middle class mostly enjoy the benefit from the measure ironically and those in minorities with lower income have a hard time. In the entertainment and sports worlds, playing trickery for the purpose of advancing human rights activities may be allowed to some extent. In the academic, business, and political worlds, however, enough of their pranks! Things should be getting better step-by-step. The substantial improvement in the education systems is what the people in the human rights groups should focus on.
In conclusion, because of not enough importance to university education and research, Japan has a weakness in fundamental research and innovative development at the laboratories of universities on the whole, as written last month. Japanese industries have previously concentrated mostly on the applications of scientific knowledge and innovations of external origin. On the ground that Japan became an industrially advanced nation a few decades ago and that neighboring countries have been on the hasty rise in the same industrial fields and have been selling cheaper products, Japan can't rely only on knowledge coming from outside these days. On the other side, because of the significant jump in labor costs due to the abuse of academic degrees, the US has had a weakness in international competitiveness and has borne an increasing burden on product developments in the manufacturing industries, while it has maintained good quality researches at the university laboratories. Therefore, both Japan and the US need some reforms in their education systems in order to address the problems above and be competitive.
A Swiss forensic reported that a trace of polonium-210 was detected in the skeletal remains of former PLO chairman Mr. Yasser Arafat. The question of whether poisoning caught on with dangerous people throughout the world around 2004 interests me. It's not the sort of incident I can just feel detached about. The choice of radioisotope may hint at something.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Felt as if the supporters of terrorist groups had given Japanese viewers a message through the news program last night.
With the intention of challenging the traditional values of the white majority elites, many kinds of countermeasures have ever been used. The above-mentioned countermeasure using academic degrees is one of them. The white majority elites' value of outward appearance is one of the values that the challengers from the white working class and minorities would like to change. Although it's unchanged essentially, it has become less strict by virtue of the efforts in some worlds, especially in the entertainment and sports worlds. As the growing markets in Asian countries, especially in China, have become attractive increasingly, the differences in the value and the taste of the outward appearance between Western and Asian countries have become the subject of controversy. Under the circumstances, a certain extent of mutual rapprochement is to be hoped for, though any remarkable compromise or heartily understanding from the majority side may not be expected.
In the histories of Asian countries, there have been a considerable number of precedents that an antithesis to a typical leader of Western countries became the moving spirit of an upstart group. What helped an untalented and insignificant-looking boss in an upstart group to be seen as prominent may be an interesting topic for some sorts of people. A traditional way is that many hangers-on lavish praise on him by claiming that he is very virtuous or something else. Another way is that he may be decorated with titles, tales, and/or achievements. In order to make him look better, a fraudulent game may be set up. An old custom may be used to place priority on him. As long as the heart of a plot isn't seen through, an antithesis might be paid some respect. However, the white majority elites aren't easy. He may only end up being laughed at. Indeed, it's just a gangsterish manner.
It seems that based on the principle of mutual rapprochement Asian countries should try to find talents who can be competitive with the typical leaders of Western countries in terms of the values of both sides. Taking the long view, that could benefit Asian people more in the future.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Climate change due to global warming has increased the occurrence of natural disasters and has intensified the extent of damage from them in the tropical, subtropical, temperate, and semi-desert zones, but it has brought some benefits to the cold districts so far.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal following an aperitif for dinner. A TV drama about unfaithfulness always gives me a bad impression.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The title of one of the classic Japanese drawings by Mr. Taikan Yokoyama that was introduced on a TV art program last Friday gave me the impression that he got off a witticism by drawing it. The title of that drawing is "Muga, which is a Japanese word meaning selflessness. The drawing depicts a little infant who's gazing into the distance with a vacant-eyed stare on a field. Probably, an artist would like to allude paradoxically to the fact of how difficult it is to attain the state of selflessness.
It's my understanding that the state of selflessness can be attained when a person takes an objective view of things, being apart from a subjective view. In order to be capable of doing that, a person has not only to grow his or her superego adequately during early childhood but also to glow conscience sufficiently thereafter. In other words, a person has to be fully grown up mentally.
Somebody may say that because a little infant of that age may not have well developed even an ego yet and objectivity at all, he or she can be in a state of selflessness so being childish is good. Naturally, however, because the degree of the development of a superego and a conscience should start later and be much more time-consuming than that of an ego should, the objectivity of a little infant is much weaker than his or her subjectivity. Relatively speaking, a little infant is very egoistic and selfish. A newborn baby acts only on instinct. It seems that either a little infant or a newborn baby is anything but in an ideal state of mind as a human in general. Therefore, children need a good education to develop their superego, conscience, and objectivity. Not only children but also adults need.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The developments of both the social conscience and the scientific objectiveness are highly recommended for everybody. As written above, the extent of the developments in these senses may be one of indexes of the brain maturity. Indeed, in the everyday world, a person who is well-versed in things and is accustomed to following social customs may be considered an adult, even though he or she is hardly capable of establishing objectivity and utilizing it. However, a grown-up person who becomes hidebound by convention without having the ability to have an objective view and the orientation toward entertaining a liberal way of thinking should be a bore.
It seems that the proper place where a person has to attain the state of selflessness and keep being it at any time on any day of the year can be found in religious communities. Being in a state of selflessness awake and asleep for 24 hours a day should be very hard. It's my belief that in the workaday world, being in a state of selflessness only for a limited period of time when it's necessary for research, administration, enlightenment, etc. on duty is what one has to accomplish.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
An inquiry into the necessity for moral education to prevent people from deceiving will be briefly described today. Since early modern times, the Japanese have had a stronger tendency to feel shame at deceiving others for their own individual interests than other Asian peoples have. Probably, this trend is still true at the present time. However, on account of the less-pressure education and the Latinization that has been lasting since the late 1970s, it has become rather dubious increasingly though in return for it Japanese have become more broad-minded toward deceived by others than they used to be. It seems to me that in Japanese society Latinization may be safely introduced without significantly spoiling its society when it's applied only to the adults after school educations.
In the case of the interests of the organization they belong to, that seems to be a different story. Despite themselves, some sorts of Japanese are likely to become depraved in the case because of their orientation toward totalitarianism. Although the tendency of the Japanese toward giving a high priority to the benefit of an organization can't be denied because it's one of their virtues, directing it to the improper course has to be abstained from. For the interests of a country, a city, an industry, a company, a religion, a university, or a family they belong to, no small numbers of Japanese don't hesitate to deceive others. This is one of the many negative aspects of the tendency toward totalitarianism. In justification for their act, they may say that they should avoid being criticized by their fellows in an organization and should be protected because they did it for the interests of an organization and many fellows do too. They may also say that their act should be allowed if it isn't revealed to outsiders. The brainstorming and detailed investigations from the self-critically objective viewpoint in order to find out the immoral behaviors that arise from this tendency in social everyday life and the solutions to the problems should be carried out. The carefully polished plans to resolve the weaknesses in terms of this tendency should be incorporated into its morel education system.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
An inquiry into the comparison of the way of deceiving between the Asian, Germanic, and Latin peoples will be briefly described today. It's well known that the techniques of the Asian peoples' deceiving others are dependent on their evasive expressions and unique customs. After imposing their convenience on a victim by using evasive ways above, they tell a pack of plausible lies behind his or her back.
Although they have a strong tendency to be ashamed of their deceiving there are no small number of the Germanic peoples who easily perpetrate deceptions. Because they feel shame at those acts, their way of deceiving is designed to be difficult to notice. Their ways of deceiving tend to be prolonged and/or wide-ranging, depending on the importance of the case. Just like a play on the theater stage, many participants are usually involved in a deceiving and are cast for their different roles. For instance, the first participant takes the main role of a mastermind, the second takes the role of a goody, the third takes the role of an intimidator, the fourth takes the role of a spy, the fifth takes the role of an idiot, and so on. Without directly telling a lie, as a group of people, they lead a victim to astray.
The techniques of the Latin peoples' deceiving rely on their originality, speed, frequency, and variety. It seems that they tend to act solo or as members of a smaller group.
As I continued to write the paragraphs above, I somehow felt worse and worse. This is because the above-mentioned techniques of deceiving are some of what I have been informed of, I perceived in advance, and I have unfortunately fallen victim to them until now. In conclusion, I would like to say that allotting a critical part to an emotionally unstable person who does whatever he or she has to in order to maintain either a benefit or a position when he or she gets into a difficult situation is the most annoying and difficult strategy I have been bothered with so far. In international affairs, this sort of strategy has whipped up the upheavals and the calamities.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a rainy day.
A comparison of the way of deceiving between different peoples was made in an extremely simplified form yesterday. As seen in most cases, things are actually very complicated. A brief supplemental explanation will be added as follows.
The schemers of the countries that have plenty of tricks up their sleeves show a manifold tendency. For instance, the French schemers have the characters of both the Latin and Germanic peoples. Chinese people have a penchant for deceiving techniques like the Latin people though they are Asian. Because the US abounds in diversity in terms of many aspects, it owns every type of the schemers explained yesterday. Probably, a combined effect has boosted their resourceful tendency.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went to an art museum this morning. Ate a South Asian meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Got up at eight forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Dozens of tornados formed in the middle west of the US and some of them struck the residential districts there. The terrible scenes of the damage from tornados that show the dilapidated houses and upside-down cars left on their trails taught the ferocity of nature.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Because of frequent grinding, my front teeth are rather irritated recently. It occurs mostly on Tuesdays.
Unspoken pressure from the coal industry has recently been applied to COP19 in Poland, or vice versa. The deflection of pointing an accusing finger at the coal industry may be the reason why conservatives and reformists in terms of the energy and environment fields had a near miss, or both just happened to be there.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A news report about the steady spreading of automatic identification systems in Brazil reminded me of the strange event at the Chicago O'hair International Airport about seven years ago. As written previously, my fingerprints were taken using a device when checking in at the check counter of a boarding gate only for Japanese passengers. Taking one's fingerprints was very rare in those days. The reason why the re-check-in was necessary at a transit counter is that a connecting flight was suddenly changed. I had a creepy feeling as if somebody had been acting under the disguise of me by using my fingerprints illicitly since then. I hope that it's just my imagination. Someday they will be sure to incur divine punishments if it's true and they continue to do evil.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
In addition to the usual tide of protectionism in trade, the recently growing trend toward conservatism in energy and environment in Japan has disappointed reformist participants at TPP, COP19, and WWF.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Started reading aloud the book on the English language in order to prevent my skills in English speaking and my knowledge of quantum physics from declining. It became my daily habit.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. For some reason or other, some of the trouble-prone capacitors that both the power supply unit and MOB of my iMac G5 are equipped with can operate rather normally only when these are warmed up. By using hot air from a hair dryer, which unit currently had the problem was identified. This simple test revealed that some of the 25 capacitors only on the MOB went wrong. The replacement of these capacitors requires merely simple technical skills. Because I don't possess any soldering iron right now, however, I have no plan to repair it.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal following an aperitif with relatives on my wife's side at a restaurant for lunch to celebrate the outgoing year, and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for dinner.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tonight, a news topic on the TV program reporting about a proposed surveillance measure to improve the public order of Japan similar to what the secret police of the former Communist regime of East Germany, i.e. Stasi usually took during the Cold War era gave me an annoying impression. That topic reminded me of the German film released in 2006 or 2007, the English title of which is "The Lives of Others". That also reminded me of the eyes of an onlooker on a signboard described in the American classic novel, "The Great Gatsby", probably suggesting the viewpoint of an author, a reader an observer, or a god.
Friday, November 29, 2013
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
As well known, Japan has been a society regulated more strongly than most other countries with some notable exceptions since the middle age. Immediately after WWII, the Special Higher Police, which was notorious for its extreme censorship of thought, especially socialism and communism, during wartime, was disbanded in Japan. Although extreme censorship disappeared once, Japan has maintained a rigidly regulated society. With some phrases in vogue, the tendency to strengthen gradually the degree of a regulated society has frequently been justified by tacit consent since then, especially since the early 1980s. Here, the inquiry offices enjoy a large practice.
As a result of technological advancements, the tendency toward administration may have become widespread everywhere in Japan and reached a certain level where it may be more appropriately called a surveillance society, rather than a regulated society. In a consummate surveillance society, most activities of most citizens may be monitored all the time. One of the most typical and thorough surveillance societies in recent history is Stasi. About one-third of the population was monitored under Stasi. Some may say that the former German communists had become secret police like the Gestapo against capitalism under the regime of East Germany. Nowadays, it's ironic that the surveillance measure that was implemented by communists in advance decades ago may have gradually been introduced to the free world since early this century. Although surveillance may be necessary in public places to some extent for usual cases and in most places for antiterrorism measures, the abuse of surveillance by prying into the private lives of ordinary citizens shouldn't be allowed.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Which way improves law and order more efficiently and is more free from harmful side effects, the thoroughness in surveillance society or understanding the usual measures of Mephistopheles and Mara may be an interesting question to ask. First of all, my answer to the question above is the latter way.
In a surveillance society, people are kept under surveillance and their being monitored should be openly acknowledged. On the surface, this surely improves public safety. Therefore, the necessity and the reasonableness of strengthening surveillance to some degree Can't be denied. However, it has to be carried forward with the revisits of moral education and the thoroughness of the internal investigation of the administration. Without improving these points, the old guards in the administration may make bad use of personal information for the benefit of theirs. To put it in another way, one of the probable risks is that the advancement of a surveillance society will provide the old guards with another means effective in interrupting the newcomers. The other problems of a regulated society e.g. deindividuation, exclusivity, etc. are becoming more and more serious when the custom of surveillance permeates.
Making the usual measures of Mephistopheles and Mara known and helping people prepare for them should be an effective way. This way itself is educational. In general, this sort of information isn't given at school at all. The parents may be able to tell their children how to live safely while dealing neatly with the usual measures of the evil spirits that live in the minds of the old guards if they can realize these measures. People may be able to find the countermeasures against these measures in some religious books though the explanations in these books are usually ambiguous and abstract. Can't anything be done with it?
