@Sha (can quote you cause this site is wild), no east asian culture exists without crushing the individual. That's their entire schtick. Japan love that shit, they just fused it with their corporate culture and made it their government culture by volition election after election. So the pieces are already there. At the same time, the people on the ground in these places (as proven by Japan) don't want to be our definition of individual.

We don't even want that shit anymore cause all it does is incline people to make up fake words and argue on the internet about celebrities failing to us them. But we're stuck with it. Japan, Korea, Vietnam, China, never started. Arguing or disagreeing with the consensus in any of those cultures is the equivalent of pissing on the kitchen floor. Image a country that has a technological solution to prevent ppl from pissing on the kitchen floor like China with its social credit score (and it's not like we don't have a consumer one that also pretty shitty and odd, so i don't even see the beef there either). That country is a brighter vision of the future than the US where people are using the piss to dye their hair.