Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Requiem for a nation

Woe to the country that has no heroes. The country unwillingly received the American Commodore Perry in 1853. Who had previously considered a blessing for the tsunami wiped out the Chinese invaders. Where the first Shogun, the military governor under the emperor divine only in the seventeenth century, outlawed the wheel to prevent the movement of people and institutions made the caste system.

That only thirty years after the first thought of imposing Western presence as an official language German to copy the organization of the Prussian kingdom. That defeated Russia in 1905 and became an Asian empire from the Twenties to the Second World War: that of Japan. Who was punished for his hubris and his kamikaze ("divine wind") with two atoms.

She heard the voice of the Tenno, the ruler of heaven, the radio and knew then that he was human. Who sailed to the rescue with the philosophy "reach over" the Western economy and became a global giant without raw materials. For whom, and for the recovery of its original spirit, the writer Yukio Mishima (in Japanese spans a Pier Paolo Pasolini), he Seppuku.

Already in the 90s, after having owned much of U.S. debt, went into crisis and since then has never recovered. Which has the oldest population in the world with the highest percentage of centenarians, with virtually no immigrants (estimates: population almost halved in 2050). The economic and social model which has entered a crisis of stagnation also psychological, and almost anthropological.

Now the enemy is not immediately perceptible to the senses is another nemesis, as well as atomic, for the very country that tried to eliminate the noises and smells, for the respect of the senses. It must rely almost only to the spirit of his people and lives of the "kamikaze" Fukushima, who will turn and make harmless the nuclear monster whose divine wind can sweep and fold once more a land of sun now declining.

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