Why did the Japanese, despite being East Asians, respect the warrior class and masculine ethos without falling into Confucian autism?
>>18124106Japan's had long stretches of Confucian Autism from the Yamato-Heian periods (400s-1100s AD) and throughout the Tokugawa Era (1600s-1860s AD), when wars weren't too frequent or- in the case of the Tokugawa- Non-Existent.What led to their warriorfaggotry was following autistially follow the Tang Dynasty's historic direction to the fucking T:>Be 600s-900s AD Japan>Copy the Tang Dynasty because its Grorious & Epic.>Copy Tang Equal Fields System, where the Imperial Government takes over land distribution and gave each family farmlands, making every peasant in the realm a sharecropper of the government.>Said system gives more land to MIlitary Families to free up men for professional military service.>Theoretically the system makes the people loyal to the Emperor.>Copy the Tang Jiedushi System. Frontier provinces are governed by Jiedushis: military governors wielding both civil & military authority, had the power to raise their own taxes, build private armies, make their own provincial laws, and go to war in the Emperor's name.>Theoretically the it made defense of China proactive vs. outside threats without the need to check with Central Authority first & rewarded loyal nobles with what basically was a pseudo-kingdom within the Empire.>You COPY all this.>OH NO Tang China falls to disunity as the Imperial Court fucks off to be degenerate & the Frontier Jiedushis amass greater & greater political & military power.>OH NO the Jiedushis take over the Equal Fields system, they now control land distribution, people are more loyal to them.>OH NO the Jiedushis now all crown themselves as Emperors and divide the Empire into warring states.>Guess what happens to you lol?The only difference from China was that neither the Jap Emperor nor the Feudal Lords had the power to eliminate their rivals, and so a prolonged feudal period set in where the country was divided by rival lords & their private armies. That's where Jap warrior culture comes from.
>>18124106All I can say is that Senator Armstrong is basically correct. And long periods of men killing each other without rule of law ends up selecting for people who are both polite as well as apt killers. Caveat: there has to be general parity between warring parties. i.e. a Daimyo vs. a Daimyo.Hunter-gatherer warfare, which merely consists of killing all of your opposing tribe's women and children when the men are out hunting, doesn't select for anything conducive to society.So, walls and civilized siege warfare is an important part of creating pro-social behavior.
>>18124106I know nothing of it but why would "Confucian autism" not respect a warrior class?
>>18124340What if Nara Japan copy Sui era?
>>18124365Mother of all omelette!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JJuRx3Dhqg
>>18124106Jomonchad ancestry. All the Japanese Samurai clans were Jomons.
