2010-9-20
In this morning’s Nikkei newspaper, the columnist Mr. Tsuchiya spoke of justice using a Harvard University professor’s class as an example, but I felt uneasy.
After a while, an answer to that unease emerged.
The unease, to begin with, of a country that is the very embodiment of capitalism speaking of justice… I am someone who feels, deep down, that there is no justice in capitalism.
Surely it is obvious that there is no justice in the astronomical disparity between rich and poor that capitalism inevitably brings about.
My answer is that it is nobility, rather than that.
The nobility of elites possessing selfless hearts… I think that is the answer.
The reason I am disappointed with the outcome this time for the Democratic Party of Japan is that nowhere can I see nobility or the magnanimity of a person of great moral stature.
What I saw was cunning and a lust for power… things of that kind.
Therefore, for a while, regarding political matters, like the great majority of the people, I shall wait and see what you can do… Please do your best.
For a while, I do not feel inclined to write about each of the practical measures for restoring Japan, ten or twenty years from now, to a country with a GDP of 1,000 trillion yen.
Since this is a Cabinet that the outstanding mass media supported almost one hundred percent, surely it cannot possibly be incompetent.
There can hardly be any need for an unknown person like me to speak.