Do doves twitter?
In any case, I asked him, Mr. Dove-Mountain, to present a clearer and more concrete view of Japan's future. Like, a more focused vision for comprehensive decentralization. Decentralization and breaking apart the bureaucracy have been mentioned before, but everything seems to be so rushed and exist only for short-term gains, if any gains at all. There's nothing grand about it. And grand shan't mean over-simplified. Grand things can be very complex, and yet still grand. And grand shan't mean easy, glamorous, or showy.
For Japan, grand shall mean quite the opposite of: easy, glamorous, & showy. More like grace than grand, perhaps. It needs to learn to step down. From second to third, and further down. It needs to learn to downsize. To grow older but happier. It needs to accept its marginal destiny. It needs to learn English and Chinese. Languages, I mean. (Look at the Scandinavians, peek at them, steal furtive glances at them, who speak such excellent English. You know, Chinese is to Korean and Japanese, perhaps Vietnamese, too, as English is to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, or even Finnish, pretty much.) Be well-versed in Anglo-American, Chinese, and Indian-subcontinental cultures. (That can be accomplished with the knowledge of just two languages: English and Chinese.) It needs to expand its horizons. And stop being so impractical. For once!
Japan is experiencing a mid-life crisis. It's not seeing things very clearly. It's unable to look beyond itself. Unable and unwilling to acknowledge the heaps and heaps of debt.
Mr. Dove-Moutain, you are actually a Mr. Debt-Mountain. Mounds and mounds...of debt! Please, don't accumulate more debt. Doves are lovely, but any more debt is not. Please realize this. And please be grand. Not glitzy-grand, but solid-grand.
Thanks for the Twitter, though. At least, in this country, no one gets arrested for twittering in front of the prime minister, oh dove!
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