:you-think-this-is-funny: ain't that some crazy shit
Fash and katana fixations: a tale as old as time? Tonight on Channel 4
Post war Japan was full of stochastic violence. Most universities still don't have dormitories because of extreme bullying and groups of students having huge battles in the streets. There were hijackings and bombings. Police would ride horses through unruly crowds.
Neil Stephenson's first published novel was a essentially an incredibly messy prototype for Snow Crash called The Big U. It honestly isn't great, and I am pretty sure Stephenson has disowned it, but the whole concept was an all out war between student tribes - fraternities, athletics, cliques, student government, etc - after they'd taken over and locked down their corporate mega campus.
It's worth reading if you enjoy Snow Crash because you get to see where a lot of the ideas in that book came from, but I wouldn't recommend it otherwise - this post just got me curious about how much of the conrent is pulled from that part of Japanese culture. I don't know much about the Stephenson's life, but I have very little doubt that the guy who named his main character Hiiro Protagonist had a serious weeb phase.
normalize killing yourself after ideology driven assassinations, it's only fair
Asanuma was a tragedy
he had options and as I understand it, he was not reasonableUltra-nationalists. If I recall correctly the rest of the cell was hunted down and killed themselves before they could be captured. Could be wrong though, it's been a long time since I read up on it.
