We should be more like the Japanese
>>25173586No, that’s fucking stupid, the Japanese are stupid and I hate their stupid culture. Stupid.
>>25173593They are a weird little group of freaks aren't they
>>25173595Not enough people call them out on that.
>>25173586Can people stop with this 'In Japan, they...' type shit? I just feel like I lose brain cells no matter where I turn.
>>25173586japan's culture is rife with corporate worship and mindless consumerism to the point that it would make an orthodox jew blush
>>25173586>thing>:(>thing Japan:0It's called "collecting" books. I don't care if the japanese come up with new words for everything they do (fuck hanami, seriously, I hate that word.)
>>25173608Waifuism and otaku culture has made for a lot of lonely single women in Japan though so perhaps it has its perks
>weeb on weeb site says we should be more weeb>non-weebs on weeb site react>voice of "reason" interjects to show everyone how the can't comprehend anything outside their bubble
>>25173586I agree, 12 should be the age of consent.
>>25173621That's too much woman for you
>>25173608Reform Jews are the consumerists. Orthodox are too busy with their yeshivas.
>>25173586Weab.The following redpill is gonna be hard for you to swallow. I invite you to watch the movie Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters) for a realistic impression of everyday Japanese life. Japan isn't clean, sparkly and odor-neutral like in your animes. The Japanese live like cattle on a farm, cramped into tiny one-room "apartments" that are filled to the brim with trash. The only reason you don't notice how dirty it is is because there's not enough room on the floor for piles of dirt and dust to form. They come home from shopping at a konbini and sit down at their floor-table thing without even washing their hands. They sleep in futons which they never wash (too big for a washing machine), they simply "air them out" every now and then. Yes, that's right, they sleep in their own fermented sweat and maybe piss until they buy a new futon. The summers in Japan are very hot and humid, yet the Japanese don't shower after getting home. They wipe their sweat into the furniture (which they never clean) and take turns in bathing in the same bathwater later at night. They slurp their ramen noodles for banmeshi and spill thick drops of grease everywhere. You can't even clean the floor properly since it's covered with tatami, mats made of flimsy rice weed, which are destroyed if you even step on them forcefully, let alone wipe them. They have no proper doors or windows, just paper-thin covers that slide to the side which are always open in summer, meaning the inside of their "homes" is teeming with insects. In winter they sit inside at a kotatsu in full winter clothing because they don't know about isolation in the 21st century.Do I need to go on? I guess you're dizzy by now. "How could the country I adored for most of my adult life be such a backwater shithole?" I hear you squeal in disbelief. I know you weren't ready for this. But reality doesn't care about your feelings. I promise, you will be better off knowing this a few years down the road
Shelf threads regularly have a single bookshelf larger than an entire japanese apartment, these nips aren't collecting shit
>>25173586How exactly are published stories "untold"?
>>25173636>poor people Japan >:0
>>25173636NooooooooOooooooOooo Japan is squeaky clean and shiny and full of ANIME WAIFUS
>>25173636Is this supposed to disgust me or something?
>>25173636>sleep in maybe pissyou're wild dude
>>25173636>>25173669also top notch copypasta
>>25173653from the perspective of the individual copy of the book, in a figurative sense.
>>25173586>>25173593The word doesn’t actually mean this by the way
>>25173586What kind of freak would buy books and not read them? And instead of reading the books they already have, buy more new books, that they don't even read before buying even more new books? Freaks!
>compulsive hoarding:/>compulsive hoarding, japan:0
I can't recall a single book I've bought because I've planned on reading it soonI just collect books and prefer it that way
I remember walking through Honolulu and some old Asian dude literally said "you-uh bringu disahonuh to-uh you famuhlee" in passing. I thought it was a joke until I saw who was talking.
Woah I love Japan so much... Eastern culture is so thoughtful and mystical...
>>25173636>Shoplifters'Nobody Knows' illustrates a more interesting picture.
Why is it too that in the animes that take place in a school, everyone is friendly to each other and they’re all prudish and coy? Even the so called ruffian characters. But when I hear about the malicious bullying that happens in these schools it makes sense that they’d try to hide this. Junko Furuta’s case isn’t so much “bullying” but it shows that these Japanese teenagers are capable of pure, demonic evil
>>25173586>I MUST CONSOOMWell, they are all there on kindle or the shelves and I can read them whenever I want, but I don't want to pay for that before I do, okay?
>>25173586>Īron Masuku-sama, ai niru fo za buuku!
>>25173940I never got around to getting a kindle, though it’d be more convenient. I’ve been used to reading physical stuff my whole life. It would maybe disturb my autism
>>25173586Japanese often can’t speak any language outside of their own so they miss out on a lot of good literature anyway; I can’t imagine their translations to be very good but perhaps a Japanese speaker here could correct me.
>>25173586>AIIIEEEE WERU IZ ZA MANGA?!!!
>>25173586>buyingu loadsu shittu you don't intendu to readu desu. Wow so profound, what an amazing wise profound people
>>25173586>consooming>consooming, Japan
>>25173989It’s telling when you consider that Japanese literature sucks and all the heckin smurt animu was created by a bunch of losers who’ve never read a book in their lives, despite saying they have. Looking at you Hideaki Anno.God, I fucking hate Japan.
>>25173593Weebs are cringe but let's be honest, (you) people only hate Japanese culture because it shames fatties, wants to steralise dysgenic people and don't want to import brownoids or promote faggotry... Which are all objectively good things.
>>25174028Oh, don’t get me wrong, I think that’s great, japs are still an asinine people, but they have the right idea in the departments you mention.
>>25174028>>25174035Furthermore, to imply that’s why I hate Japanese culture without me having even hinted at such things makes you look like a weeb yourself which is fine (not saying you are though). I’ve been into weebshit, i used to like manga, VNs and whatever myself in the past I’m not ashamed to say. And I think they’ve come out with cool shit now and then, Discmans (Discmen?) are pretty sick. But all that constitutes very little of their culture.
>Reads with Ravi
>>25173586you should never store books in a pile. it distorts the spines
>>25174111Womanly mentality
>>25174111Who cares as long as you can still read them, they’re not there to look nice.
>>25174111I hate it when the spine gets distorted and all of the words get rearranged or simply fall off
>>25174142Yeah every book turns into Finnegans wake. Hey! Isn’t that a good thing?!
>>25173586I always give away the books I have finished reading.If I did not enjoy it, I give it to my sister's pretentious collection. If I enjoy it, I give to a friend who may enjoy it.It's pointless to own books you already read...
>>25174149>sister's pretentious collectionOh yeah? What’s in that collection?
>>25174115>>25174118>>25174142why do men insist on treating their possessions like shit?
>>25174217cuz we cool and ur gay lol
Japan always has this thing they put a concept on a positive spin and give it a name. Westerns gobble this shit like desert.The Japanese have this custom named "hokaishun" which means consuming copious amounts of drugs not because you are addicted but because you feel good while doing it.
>>25174226> The Japanese have this custom named "hokaishun" which means consuming copious amounts of drugs not because you are addicted but because you feel good while doing it. That’s fucking hilarious and actually somewhat based.
I do this but I also read them. stack goes higher by another 8 books or so and there’s an equally tall one by my bed and another couple stacks in the closet
>>25173636Hopefully this is a wakeup call to the anons who still idolize Japan and Japanese culture. Stop deluding yourselves.
>>25173636i'm cackling bro
>>25174179she is just using books as decoration.
>>25173586>we should fetishize commodities
>>25174226>>25174229"the concept of irony: with continual reference to socrates", by søren kierkegaard
>>25174282Typical >>25174289Never read it but isn’t it that Kierkegaard’s view of Socratic irony is a somewhat solipsistic and subjective thing? If I’m not mistaken
>>25174358the second poster did not understand that "hokaishun" is a complete fabrication, which could be ascertained by a simple google search. hence, the irony. honestly i assumed it was samefag proving a point, but you're clearly botbrained
>>25174381Sorry I forgot I’m on /lit/, a place bereft of humour where you have to thoroughly look into the veracity of every single post. It wasn’t a post I thought anything of after replying to it, gullibility be damned.Stop being a pompous ass
>>25174409Okay, I’ll admit it that was retarded of me.
>>25174409he said "westerns gobble this shit like desert" and you immediately gobbled the shit like desert. it's ok to be a midwit. we need you, for clerical labor
we don't do this in Germany
japanese are retarded. weebs and their delusions are the only thing floating the country.
>>25174437No I know what I did, it was stupid, I know. Can I put it down to feeling really tired and not wanting to do anything today? I’m usually more shrewd than this.
this is where ebooks are superior
>>25174449forget it, sweaty: it's 4chan. i had to learn the hard way, too
>>25174460Till the power goes out.
>>25174482So it goes…
>>25174499i started smoking pall mall non-filters bc of vonnegut. don't recommend, the baccy gets in ya mouth. and they're more expensive (wild)
>>25174489the battery of my ereader lasts for about two weeks. you'd have bigger worries if the power grid went down for so long
>>25173586I do this, but at the thrift store for 5% of the price of Mr. Nihon there
>hoarding shit:|>hoarding shit, 日本語:O
>>25173608Just say you're broke and be done with it.
>>25174267There is a difference between having a stack with books you will red (at least I always do), and just buying a bunch of books to let them stay and occupy space, that is just hoarding books, consuming addiction syndrome, nothing new just that its in japan.>>25174723this
>>25173586I AM GONNA CONSOOM
>>25173636Nice
>>25173586They are truly the bug people with no soul. How about you stop wasting money and time on collecting shit and read them? Your could rent them for free from local library too you subhuman fuck. I'm glad you are getting extinct. There were not a single piece of literature worthy reading from your strange country.
>>25173593sorry but you should try reddit
>>25174217>why do men insist on treating their possessions like shit?Orderliness is a weakness and a manifestation of neuroticism. It makes you a slave to others' expectations of you. Men have less of this, "Oh no, I have to do what society says or I'll be ostracized or worse!" than women do, which leads to us being less orderly.Males tend to create their own models of reality by testing and iteration. Females tend to adopt the collective model of reality they see as common among those around them, and then do anything they can to uphold that model.Furthermore, when I look at a book I own and see it bent out of shape, I see that it's because of its shared journey with me, a component of its character, and I have no desire to maintain it in some pristine original state as presented to me by a nebulous authority.
>>25175200Spot on, I’ve been told my entire life by women that this should be like that or your apartment/house ought to be like this. No! I all too frequently retort, this is my living space and though you may be living here with me I will not change my own idiosyncrasies and autism for you, you materialistic, hylic cunt! No wonder I’m alone these days, but id rather that than some bitch telling me to arrange my shelf the way SHE wants it.
>oh no I shat my pants and then leaned on the kitchen wall and now there is a wet brown spot there>japanese surely have a word for this and it's heckin wholesome
>>25173586How could we possibly be MORE like the Japanese? We're all already suicidal sexless NEET shutins obsessed with cartoons and toys and games or overworked sexless suicidal wagie cagies who are ALSO obsessed with shitty cartoons toys and games.I want to be LESS like the Japanese. I don't want to share anything in common with the modern Japanese man at ALL.
>>25173586This threads really brought out the anti-jap seethers.
>>25175370What would you expect from a bunch of racist westoids who are seething because other cultures aren't ugly and trashy like theirs.
>>25175200I love my books and treat them with respect, as they're the few things that I own. I'll take care of them until I die. I don't believe in your bullshit faggy thought process.
>>25175430The fact that our women go for those scum makes it a thousand times worse.
>>25174286>noooo you cant enjoy things! thats heckin capitalismerino!!!
damn...
>>25173636Do a write up about brown people too plz
>>25175444Why are you justifying yourself to me? I don't care.
>>25175932You do care, you're just being tsundere
>>25173586I'm more of the opposite. I don't like to have a pile of books in front of me, still to read. It distracts me. It pulls my mind towards the next book. It unironically hypes me up for the next book reading. But I don't want that. I want to be focused on my current book, on the words in front of me that I want to be engrossed in. I don't want to think about a future book and how good it will be when I should be happy for enjoying a good book now. Because of that I really just buy my next book once I'm pretty much finished with my current one.
>>25174217I treat consumables like consumables. Books are a consumable. If I bought a rare 1st edition copy of an old book I loved, I would treat it like the collector's item it is and keep it safe (likely still displayed just out of direct sunlight). But for things I am to use I will use them as intended.
>>25175642>I enjoy things by purchasing themgood goy
In English, there is a word: stuff. "Stuff" means all the objects you own, all the tasks you avoid, and all the thoughts you can’t quite articulate. The Japanese/Scandinavian mind often tries to translate this mystical word, but never quite captures the sense inherently imbued in the English-language mindset.
I am convinced that 90% of this thread are bots and r*dditniggers. Defenitely tons of newfags that have never been told to lurk moar. If you cant extract the sweet meaning of the OP you are a brute retard and have no business on this board. But why even bother this place is so shit you retards discuss communism again. You're like a skin disease, just when you think its gone it flares up again. Until we...
>>25176576Shut up, butthurt weeb.
>>25175370They are just leftards and browniggers
>>25173636My father is like the Japanese, he keeps the backdoor open in the summer and his house is full of flies. They land on food and on people with impunity. I asked him why he does this and he got incredibly mad and shouted at me about "suffocating" is the door isn't open.I think he might have dementia but I'm not sure how to broach the subject.
>>25175985I know your feel exactly but thats why the OP is kinda basado, it showed me for the first time that I dont have to be intimidated by that stack next to me bed, I can just allow myself to be alright with not having read them, I can just be happy that I got "stuff in the fridge" for when I'm ready for it. Not that anime of the seething brownoids here would ever understand.
Why do so many people think you have to actively worship the Japanese to be able to use this website? You've never even been there.
>>25175642Shalom, Rabbi
>>25176576I’ll own up to being a baiting fuck considering this thread has been up for a while now I made the first post here but I’m actually quite the weeb. Still though, that OP pic is rather silly if it is true, I find it dubious though considering it’s from twitter.
all the coping in the world won't make your backlog disappear so GET THE FUCK TO IT ALREADY
>>25176606He is a jew for opposing jewish-invented models for western society? Are you okay? Maybe talk that one over with your think-tanks again, tune your nonsense some more the leftie retard glow is all over your retarded nigger post
>>25173586i hate weebs so much you won't believe
>>25176847Uhhh... based
>>25173593
This thread feels kinda samfaggish desu.
>>25177322I agree. People named "Sam" are ALWAYS notorious butt pirates IRL
>>25173636And in small towns, the houses are even worse
>>25173636real weebs know this because its gets put on display pretty frequently. and yet its still better than 80% of the world desu
>>25179224The thing is, I’m a weeb and yet I find Japan to unironically be quite a depressing place, considering the most ghastly shit you read about schools, the workplace and living spaces in general. Anime/manga is pretty much escapism with only a few works of fiction that I’ve read or seen that manage to exhibit this sorry state.
>>25179235i suggest you expand your horizons. depending on what you like, you’ll find that most of the world is either a shithole with people living in places they shouldn’t or in remnants of a slightly better past generation, with few actually being nice or productive. adulthood in japan is probably the biggest downside against relative safety and stability, and one of the best when it comes to materialism you can enjoy without needing to be especially rich. lots of culture and nature as well. i’d easily take japan over something like honduras or kenya, although i know its real shitty if you arent a native jap and you live there.
>>25174229>Loli>The Japanese art of appreciating the evanescent fragility of girlhood>Shota>The Japanese art of appreciating the transient joys of boyhood>Guro>The Japanese art of seeing perfection in anatomical disasters>Futanari>The Japanese art of seeing beauty in paradoxical biological combinations
>>25179258>i’d easily take japan over something like honduras or kenya,No doubt. It’s more of a first world ennui rife with materialism than a hellscape like those you mentioned. I think after their collapse in 1991 (I believe) they’ve been in a somewhat depressive state financially and are only now picking themselves up despite only just avoiding recession. The nature, culture and the architecture is pretty though I will admit.
>>25179270A most cultured nation indeed
>>25179273>I think after their collapse in 1991 (I believe) they’ve been in a somewhat depressive state financially look up the japanese lost decade and the bubble era. its exactly what you’re talking about. basically they went from excess money to scraping by and due to their recruiting methods every salaryman job college graduates wanted were never given because companies didnt let go of anyone and never hired new, younger workers. its quite fascinating
>>25179270NTRThe art of ...
>>25173608Hilariously, it's the Jewish (otherwise known as American) influence that helped shape some of the worst parts of contemporary Japanese culture.
finding books i like translated to my native tongue is pain in the ass. so if i ever find (used) books i might like i buy those right away, amount of books i have yet to read keeps growing but atleast i got them. buying second hand books, atleast in my case has been relatively cheap hobby.not to mention all the books published in english have downloaded in ebook formats filling my hard drives and ereader.
