Missing Society
by (japan) Nhk Special Program Recording Team
About This Novel
"Missing Society" is a collection of works by senior interview reporters from NHK TV station. The topic of the interview is "Modern Man's Lonely Old Age and Death." Old age, few children, unemployment, unmarriedness, and urbanization have created a group of people who have no contact with them when they are alive. They have no jobs, spouses, children, and do not return to their hometowns. When they die, no one knows, and even if they are discovered, no one knows. When people claim their corpses, they can't even know their names. Their lives are summarized in a few-word notice for claiming their remains. They are called "the undead", and the society they live in will gradually change from a "destined society" to an "undestined society." Every year, 32,000 people in Japan embark on the path of "unfortunate death". Among them, there are working-class people who have not been late for leave in the company for 20 years but turned into homeless people on the street overnight; there are travelers who travel alone; there are women who have never been married; there are empty-nesters who have children far away from them; there are young people who have only made friends on the Internet. Social connections are becoming increasingly fragile. Even people in their 30s and 40s in ordinary families feel the cloud of dying alone. The special program recording team of Japan's NHK TV station combined the reporters' real interview notes into this book after the program became popular. It presents to everyone the tragic death scenes of those who are not paid attention to in today's society, and calls for social vigilance and reflection. Because after the interview, when the identities of these unintentional deceased gradually became clear, we discovered that they were almost all the same people as us.
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Official(8)Scraped 5d ago
beautiful sentences
People are all related to others... The entire society and the world are like this, they are all interdependent! May everything go well😹😹😹😽
Um
When you come, you are alone, and when you go, you are alone. Who will accompany you?
Individual lack of fate, social lack of fate
The intuitive feeling this book gives me is that the "unpredestined" society is actually a macroscopic phenomenon accumulated after the "individuation" of social individuals in their own formation. Personally think: 1) The "individualization" of middle-aged and elderly people is forced to cut off social connections, mostly due to employment issues or survival issues. This aspect of "not being connected to society" is more like a social problem at the economic level than a sense of rupture at the personal psychological level due to the weakening of social connections. It is not difficult to see that, under ideal circumstances, providing stable jobs with higher income standards for the working population is an effective way to solve this problem. 2) The active "individualization" of young people in their prime is mostly due to over-optimism about the "weak ties" of the Internet, which then puts the cart before the horse and replaces the "strong ties" such as "blood ties", "regional ties" and "workplace ties" in the traditional sense. 3) As for the "individuation" of the elderly (the "people who died in transit" mentioned in the book are its extreme embodiment), they are either originally in the first category, or they are forced to "individualize" because their relatives around them belong to the first two categories. Therefore, I personally do not agree with the suggestion at the end of the book to use "loose new relationships to maintain each other." It is true that this suggestion can, to a certain extent, effectively intervene in the suicide phenomenon caused by "unconnected society", but in fact, the focus of the problem that needs to be solved lies in the second type of people. The seemingly promising new forms of social connection brought about by the rise of the Internet are like Pan Jinlian's poisoned soup. They seem to be an expedient way to deal with "no destiny" and break down individual barriers, but in fact they obscure the only way for individuals to recognize "no destiny" and accelerate the process of exhaustion of individuals as a social function.
Social environment and interpersonal books
People become miserable when they grow old
It's okay, not bad.
This book is very thorough and professional in its analysis
It gave me a deep understanding of the word "unconnected society"
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Official(8)Scraped 5d ago
beautiful sentences
People are all related to others... The entire society and the world are like this, they are all interdependent! May everything go well😹😹😹😽
Um
When you come, you are alone, and when you go, you are alone. Who will accompany you?
Individual lack of fate, social lack of fate
The intuitive feeling this book gives me is that the "unpredestined" society is actually a macroscopic phenomenon accumulated after the "individuation" of social individuals in their own formation. Personally think: 1) The "individualization" of middle-aged and elderly people is forced to cut off social connections, mostly due to employment issues or survival issues. This aspect of "not being connected to society" is more like a social problem at the economic level than a sense of rupture at the personal psychological level due to the weakening of social connections. It is not difficult to see that, under ideal circumstances, providing stable jobs with higher income standards for the working population is an effective way to solve this problem. 2) The active "individualization" of young people in their prime is mostly due to over-optimism about the "weak ties" of the Internet, which then puts the cart before the horse and replaces the "strong ties" such as "blood ties", "regional ties" and "workplace ties" in the traditional sense. 3) As for the "individuation" of the elderly (the "people who died in transit" mentioned in the book are its extreme embodiment), they are either originally in the first category, or they are forced to "individualize" because their relatives around them belong to the first two categories. Therefore, I personally do not agree with the suggestion at the end of the book to use "loose new relationships to maintain each other." It is true that this suggestion can, to a certain extent, effectively intervene in the suicide phenomenon caused by "unconnected society", but in fact, the focus of the problem that needs to be solved lies in the second type of people. The seemingly promising new forms of social connection brought about by the rise of the Internet are like Pan Jinlian's poisoned soup. They seem to be an expedient way to deal with "no destiny" and break down individual barriers, but in fact they obscure the only way for individuals to recognize "no destiny" and accelerate the process of exhaustion of individuals as a social function.
Social environment and interpersonal books
People become miserable when they grow old
It's okay, not bad.
This book is very thorough and professional in its analysis
It gave me a deep understanding of the word "unconnected society"
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