“I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?”
Seppuku refers to “an act of ritual disembowelment,” noted the New York Times, which also described the Yale professor as an individual who has “taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society.”
Last year, after being asked to elaborate on his mass suicide ideas, Narita suggested it could be a “good thing” to “work hard toward creating a society” like the one depicted in the 2019 horror film Midsommar, in which a Swedish cult has elderly members of its community commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.
“Whether that’s a good thing or not, that’s a more difficult question to answer,” the Ivy League professor said. “So if you think that’s good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that.”
When it comes to euthanasia, Narita has suggested “the possibility of making it mandatory in the future.”
After facing some backlash, the 37-year-old professor said his comments were “taken out of context,” and that he was mainly addressing a growing effort to push seniors out of leadership in business and politics in order to make room for younger generations.
While not everyone agrees with Narita’s remarks about mass suicide for the elderly, he has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on social media in Japan, many of whom are frustrated young people who think their economic success is being hindered by older generations in their society, NYT pointed out.
As the Yale professor grows more popular, he has appeared on magazine covers, comedy shows, in an advertisement for energy drinks, and has even “spawned an imitator” on the China-owned TikTok app, the report added.
In response to pushback, Narita claimed that he was using the phrases “mass suicide” and “mass seppuku” as “an abstract metaphor.”
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Perhaps the 'professor' will be good enough to perform a demonstration on himself.
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Maybe the "professor" could be forced to follow his own suggestion? Rip his guts out and use shit to fill it back in?
Nice glasses Malaka
Perhaps to suggest that he disembowel himself, be shoved off a cliff or forced to be otherwise euthanized is merely an abstraction as well. If one thinks that would be a good thing, then perhaps society should be constructed with his demise first and foremost in mind...again, a mere abstraction of thought. It must be that when one starts smoking from the pipe of communism, tyranny and totalitarianism, then one's brains fall completely out. Frikken retard.
It’s working in Canada
That people would openly and seriously suggest such things shows how deranged some people are. This slide to life having no intrinsic value unless is a dark path indeed.
In my opinion the most useless drains on society are college professors. Perhaps we need mandatory culling of the professorial herd?
He should show the world he's serious and lead the way.
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