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I was hanging out in some chats and boards and something triggered me to go down this rabbit hole. I don't know of a better name for this theory. Here's the main thread for this.
If it was already there, it doesn't count
The Main Point
Yukio Mishima was already a suicidal man for a long time before he planned the futile coup d'etat that ended with his seppuku. At best, the politics was used as drama to frame his already planned suicide as a political act and at worst his type of politics attracts actively suicidal people and other crazies. In either case, he was already planning his suicide and everything else, including his political protest, is secondary to that.
Only dear things are sacrificed, so this could not have counted.
He is a talented writer who prophetically predicted his suicide to his inner narcissist more than 10 years before he did it.
The Incident
In 1968, Yukio Mishima founded a militia organisation called Tatenokai or Shield Society to defend what he considered traditional Japanese values. The name comes from really old Japanese poetry. There were 100 members in total up to when the incident occurred.
In 1970, Mishima and four other members including Masakatsu Morita (important member) seize control of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Camp. Lt. General Mashita was restrained in his office in a surprise attack, thinking it's all a joke. The room was barricaded and the general was a hostage — there was a hostage situation. A letter demanding an audience was slipped under the door which was accepted. Copies of his manifesto were distributed to the audience before the speech.
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"Listen, guys. Be quiet. Be quiet. Listen to what I'm saying. A man is staking his life to appeal to you all. Listen." — Mishima's speech
After the speech, he committed seppuku. Morita went and committed seppuku after even though he was told not to. This is important to the main point above.
The top 10% of the organisation knew about the suicide plot and the bottom 90% were unaware.
Morita
Masakatsu Morita was a 21 year old university student when he met Mishima and joined the Tatenokai the following year.
Morita was impressed by the politics of the movement and decided to write a letter.
Morita is expressing to Mishima that he is willing to die for him but he had been writing love letters to death back in high school.
Verdict
The point is that there is no sacrifice if what is being sacrificed is not dear. "A man is staking his life to appeal to you all. Listen." — No, he was not.
Is it over?
"We watched postwar Japan become obsessed with economic prosperity, forget the country's roots, lose its national spirit, pursue ends without correcting the roots, fall into makeshift measures and hypocrisy, and fall into an emptiness of the spirit." — Mishima in his manifesto
It has been "over" in 500+ unique threads for every era of *.org.
"It's over" is as old as time and time is change. There is always change. Japan went on to prosper and export it's culture abroad.
Source threads:
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If it was already there, it doesn't count
| 1970 - Suicide scene. The severed heads are blurred and there is a katana in front of them. | 1959 - Publication of a novel whcih tell of 4 different facets of Mishima. The 'narcissistic side' commits suicide. |
The Main Point
Yukio Mishima was already a suicidal man for a long time before he planned the futile coup d'etat that ended with his seppuku. At best, the politics was used as drama to frame his already planned suicide as a political act and at worst his type of politics attracts actively suicidal people and other crazies. In either case, he was already planning his suicide and everything else, including his political protest, is secondary to that.
Only dear things are sacrificed, so this could not have counted.
He is a talented writer who prophetically predicted his suicide to his inner narcissist more than 10 years before he did it.
The Incident
In 1968, Yukio Mishima founded a militia organisation called Tatenokai or Shield Society to defend what he considered traditional Japanese values. The name comes from really old Japanese poetry. There were 100 members in total up to when the incident occurred.
In 1970, Mishima and four other members including Masakatsu Morita (important member) seize control of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Camp. Lt. General Mashita was restrained in his office in a surprise attack, thinking it's all a joke. The room was barricaded and the general was a hostage — there was a hostage situation. A letter demanding an audience was slipped under the door which was accepted. Copies of his manifesto were distributed to the audience before the speech.
Geki (Mishima) - Wikipedia
"Listen, guys. Be quiet. Be quiet. Listen to what I'm saying. A man is staking his life to appeal to you all. Listen." — Mishima's speech
After the speech, he committed seppuku. Morita went and committed seppuku after even though he was told not to. This is important to the main point above.
The top 10% of the organisation knew about the suicide plot and the bottom 90% were unaware.
Morita
Masakatsu Morita was a 21 year old university student when he met Mishima and joined the Tatenokai the following year.
Morita was impressed by the politics of the movement and decided to write a letter.
Morita is expressing to Mishima that he is willing to die for him but he had been writing love letters to death back in high school.
Verdict
The point is that there is no sacrifice if what is being sacrificed is not dear. "A man is staking his life to appeal to you all. Listen." — No, he was not.
Is it over?
"We watched postwar Japan become obsessed with economic prosperity, forget the country's roots, lose its national spirit, pursue ends without correcting the roots, fall into makeshift measures and hypocrisy, and fall into an emptiness of the spirit." — Mishima in his manifesto
It has been "over" in 500+ unique threads for every era of *.org.
"It's over" is as old as time and time is change. There is always change. Japan went on to prosper and export it's culture abroad.
Source threads:
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