In Japan, this phenomenon has been labeled as ‘hikikomori,’ but given its global presence it may be preferable to use the term ‘extreme social withdrawal’ (ESW).
Sidenote: smh this mindset of "We can't use a Japanese word because it's global. We must use an English word."
That's not the main point of the post tho
The people who gave us "quiet quitting" and "rage-applying" did this
lmao just googled it they literally made 'applying to multiple jobs' into something you're not supposed to do?
This is purely a product of US neocolonialism of Japan.
TBH you have to hand it to US imperialists. I can never decide which is their best foreign policy.
The Plaza Accords where they got the Japanese to turn up and sign a document saying "actually my currency is much stronger than the markets say it is" which prices them out of the global market, destroys their exports (and therefore industry) and sees their economy tank for 3 decades straight to the point they produce the hikikomori phenomena
https://kendawg.medium.com/how-the-plaza-accord-helped-the-us-destroy-the-japanese-economy-b4b24c20a9af
Or presenting the (Rockefeller funded) Limits to Growth as "real science" to a Chinese mathmatician who then goes back to China, bamboozles Deng Xiao Ping and Deng introduces the One Child policy which will cut the legs out of China's rise just as they enter their 2nd golden era
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/missile-science-population-science-the-origins-of-chinas-onechild-policy/65D2C3C2BFFBB0334CB0A04D35BC4146
https://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/chinas-one-child-policy-was-inspired-by-western-greens/
TBH you have to hand it to US imperialists. I can never decide which is their best foreign policy.
It's atrociously easy to have selfish foreign policy when you have 500 military bases in a country smaller than California
Yeah well when you just don't fucking fit and you don't have a lot of options collapsing into a sort of lethargic despair is probably the one that is least painful
There's really not a lot of sympathy out there for the socially awkward. Awareness, sure, but nobody's willing to deal with us. I've been self-isolating for years and am still low-key terrified of interacting with other people, which is a thing I have to do every single day at my job.
Whoever else on here said it's like living in a different world in regards to examining things through a leftist lens versus without nailed it. Capitalism is only mentioned once despite being relevant practically every other sentence.
