Based on a dialogue between Hiroshi Furuta and Ruriko Kubota in the monthly magazine Will, this article examines premodern food customs, ancient despotism, and the collapse of the progressive view of history in China and South Korea. It uses the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a starting point to reconsider the essence of Greater China and Lesser China.
February 27, 2020
That is ancient food, isn’t it?
If Greater China is bats, then Lesser China is dog stew.
For men, it is an aphrodisiac; for women, it is for breast milk.
Apparently, it is a premodern bad custom.
Ancient hot pots loved by ancient minds.
Yesterday, the monthly magazines Will and Hanada were released.
I am now flipping through Will, and every article and every dialogue feature is essential reading for the Japanese people.
Every Japanese citizen who can read print must go tomorrow to the nearest bookstore with 920 yen times two and buy them.
For people all over the world, although my English is poor, I want to deliver the truth to as many people as possible based on my English translation.
The following is an extraordinary excerpt from a dialogue feature that should be required reading for the Japanese people and for people throughout the world,
between Professor Hiroshi Furuta, a true great scholar whom I did not know at all until August six years ago,
and Ruriko Kubota, one of the finest journalists of our time.
That is ancient food, isn’t it?
If Greater China is bats, then Lesser China is dog stew.
For men, it is an aphrodisiac; for women, it is for breast milk.
Apparently, it is a premodern bad custom.
Ancient hot pots loved by ancient minds.
The preface is omitted.
Furuta
Because it is the relationship between “Greater China” and “Lesser China.”
As long as they continue eating such ancient food, epidemics originating in China will never disappear.
At the Munich Security Conference, Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly praised China, saying that the reason the number of infections outside China remained below 1 percent of the total was that China had effectively contained the spread abroad, and that China had “made tremendous efforts for global public health.”
There is no such absurd story.
With this incident, the progressive view of history has completely collapsed.
When the progressive view of history was still believed, one could think that neighboring countries were also changing smoothly.
However, that was not the case at all.
The progressive view of history has been destroyed, and China and North Korea remain in a state of ancient despotism.
Many people have noticed that fact.
The rest is omitted.