The Abnormality Appearing in the Left Eye — The Gaze of Those Who Conceal Anti-Establishment Ideology
The author presents a personal yet incisive observation regarding the unsettling gaze of certain female news anchors on Japanese television. He argues that an internalized Asahi Shimbun–style ideology, combined with the pretense of neutrality, manifests physically—most notably in the left eye—as a visible sign of ideological contradiction.
2017-07-29
In both of them, for some reason, it appears in the left eye.
In extreme cases, even the face becomes distorted.
This morning, I finally found the answer to a question that had troubled me for many years.
Ever since the days when Furutachi was hosting Hōdō Station on TV Asahi, I had been bothered by the gaze of Ogawa, who has served as a female anchor on the program.
That was why, on several occasions, I wrote that perhaps the strain of being a fervent believer in the Asahi Shimbun had gone so far as to cause Graves’ disease.
After this year’s change of NHK president, I thought, “Surely not,” but then Kuwako became the female anchor of Watch 9.
As I have mentioned several times, the look in her eyes when she comments on political news—something that is, in truth, completely out of place for her—is strikingly similar to that of the aforementioned Ogawa, and that is when I finally arrived at the answer.
Simply put, that gaze arises from a grotesque state in which people who were raised reading the Asahi Shimbun and who use its editorials as their intellectual framework—holding minds steeped in anti-establishment ideology, believing that Japanese politics are hopeless, that the government is evil, and that the Asahi Shimbun alone is right—force themselves to pretend to be neutral and even define themselves as guardians of democracy.
In both of them, for some reason, it appears in the left eye.
In extreme cases, even the face becomes distorted.
A psychologist might explain the reason for its manifestation in theoretical terms,
But there is no doubt that my discovery encompasses the whole of it.
Those two are, in essence, anti-establishment.
The strain—indeed, the lie—of forcing themselves into a position of neutrality, and even more so of delivering commentary as supposed guardians of democracy, is what makes their left eyes appear so abnormal.