Grass Eaters of Japan
June 17th 2009 22:41
I ran across something on the Grass Eaters of Japan. Naturally I was intrigued. Surely we don't have people in Japan who get down on the lawn and chew on it.
Turns out, the Grass Eaters of Japan don't actually eat grass. Although these men are not necessarily Gay or Metrosexual, they are men who would rather live at home with mom, or worry about their looks, or putter about their gardens then drive big, fast cars and chase women around Tokyo.
One might say that this is the shape of things to come--even for us. There were many factors that might have led to the Grass Eaters and those factors exist in the United States as well. A prolonged recession, a drifting away from the values of their parents. Changing social mores that now call the grab assing that some high powered Japanese male executives used to do, sexual harassment.
Many here in the US state or imply that male aggression is abnormal and undesirable so it would not surprise me if this Grass Eater culture spread to the US. We are often told that competition is bad and that children for instance should never engage in it.
One of the consequences of this Grass Eater culture is a less acquisitive society. However, Japan was based on consumerism just as we were. There are those who worry that a post consumerism society might not grow as fast or as well or produce as many jobs.
Other indicators from places like the National Resources Council indicate that the truly green economy we were promised may be a half a century and a number of scientific break throughs away.
Watching yet another company, MySpace, lay off a good portion of its workers, one wonders what is coming next. It appears that we will not be able to go back to what we were doing.
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