16 November 2015
Keep calm, enjoy the diversities of the huge world, and then think about the people in far place. After Terror attack in Paris.
Read "Soumission" written by Michel Houellebecq in Far East anew after the massacre in Paris
If the massacre on last Friday would happen on the “Soumission”
situation after 2022, what comment will the people talk on the media or SNS?
After the peace of Westphalia, the “shape” of Europa have been destroyed and
re-constructed again and again. For these several years after Greek crisis, the
people of Europa is losing the identity as the citizen of Europa. In addition the
population of the Muslim is increasing as the immigrants and refugees from the
Middle East area. The immigrants were formed local communities in the countries
only with Muslims in the European countries.
What kind of the situation are the citizens in our developed
countries? They had the smartphone, convenient fast food, middle to high
education, not big but not little income and small number of family. An
individual will communicate with other individuals one way through the SNS (as
Facebook or twitter) or internet through the smart phone without seeing their
voice or face each other. The people in Japan are following the current trends
of fashion, food or also politics in the mass media. They have never made decision
if like or not, fit them or not, realistic or not. This type of society may be
very weak to the sudden and slight terrorist attacks.
Tokyo is one of the most international cities in the world. The
major cities of Europa in these days also show the huge diversity in international
culture, religious, foods and customs. Francois drank a lot of amount and kinds
of liquor or wines and ate broadly international foods, including from the Islamic
cultures, in the novel. The restaurant which the terrorist had attacked was the
Cambodian restaurant. Fundamentalist would not have the tolerance of the
diversity (In the situation in “Soumission”, the Islamic fundamentalist may
attack the 2022 Arabic government in France.). On the other hand, the citizens
in Europa might enjoy the difference between the original nationalities or
cultures in the communities. We should know more about each other on the earth.
The elite in the countries are very frail in their
principle, will and social position. Under the Nazi government in Germany or
Austria, in the South Korea or in the Post-World War II Japan, the class of
elite has converted to the complete opposite side to keep their position or
incomes. The pressure from the social awareness, unemployment or promotion will
easily break the spirits of the elite.
We should keep our daily life as going to the restaurant or cafe, meeting our friends, going to working by metro or bus as usual, drinking some drinks in bar and watching movies. The terrorist wanted to destroy our daily life and our communities with their despicable attacks. And After enjoying the daily life with grief, then we should think about the farther places as France, Iraq, Sylia and Lebanon etc. Under the dynamic and rapid transition of the world, we
should broadly take notice of this Paris massacre to find what we must know and
think. We forgot a lot of attacks around Middle East as the Turkey, Lebanon or
Iraq. The attacks were not only Paris. To know something, the culture or friends
will help us.
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