Even when facing Yazawa-san and me, he speaks You should know, This is obvious, pushing the idea that his thoughts are right and accepted
Umu, indeed Jii-chan smiled.
The younger generation today seems to feel like they must always be on the right side. However, that right judgment, is complicated. That’s why they tend to follow people who shout This is the right thing to do Jii-chan said.
So their decision-making on what’s right, has gone down? Old man Kira said.
Have the younger people of today become stupid compared to before? I.
I don’t think so. The young today can think for themselves, and they also can judge what’s good or bad
Indeed. I think that the younglings today are smart. They’re wise and know discernment Jii-chan agreed with me.
Then, why are people swayed by that man’s honey talk? That’s.
That’s because they’re good at presenting their materials to their conclusion I replied.
Everyone wants to be on the winning side, don’t they? People like governor Murata will only talk about information that’s convenient for them, loudly and skillfully insisting that they are right. If they make the decision just from that information, they’ll surely come under the impression that governor Murata is right
People will be convinced that it’s the right decision, even if it’s just limited information Jii-chan said.
That’s right. Furthermore, governor Murata will deliberately try to bring the mood of the place to his side by becoming emotional. If you’re trying to calmly discuss the issue, he will agitate you by getting louder and louder, saying you’re derailing the discussion, or you’re misinterpreting what I’m saying. That way, the people listening to the debate from his side will feel as if governor Murata has debunked the other side. If he uses a strong tone and blames the other party, it’ll look like governor Murata’s scolding the other side
Japanese people are sensitive to the atmosphere, and so they think less about their reasoning but creating the mood that’s convenient to them Old man Kira nodded.
That’s right. That’s why we can’t engage in a conversation even when you have a decent argument. Governor Murata came to impose his opinion, and he has no intention of listening. He only wants to show the people around him his victory in arguments. That’s how he attracts people with how right he is, that’s his objective That’s why his words have no meaning. He only uses his momentum to attack the other party.
The people above his generation probably never scolded him properly. Or maybe, even when he is, he only secludes himself in his shell thinking I’m not wrong, and so he would never understand any reason why he’s being scolded Jii-chan said.
Uhm, this is a story from my middle school I.
When I was in middle school, I was in a dorm boys’ school, but, when there’s a fuss during the night, the night watch teacher will find them and knock them, making them sit on their soles I remember the time when I was in my second year.
That student is in the basketball club and he had a match the next day. So, he lost the game and protested to the school, he’s been holding a grudge against the teacher who scolded him the night before
Why? Old man Kira asked me.
Well, the teacher knew that he had an important match the next day and yet, the teacher still beat him up and made him sit for two hours in the middle of the night. Because of that, he didn’t get enough sleep, he hurt his knee, and he couldn’t move like he usually does, and he couldn’t concentrate on the match because he was worried about getting hit. Therefore, the basketball team lost the preliminary round of the prefectural tournament.the reason being the teacher made them sit on their sole the night before
That’s unjustified resentment
Well, using corporal punishment in school is a problem nowadays. If there would be a court case based on that student’s claim, it could damage the school’s reputation, and the school had to be careful with it, wouldn’t they? Jii-chan said.
In the end, it was him who caused the problem, and yet, he kept attacking the teacher, blaming them to be at fault, playing innocent. Ultimately, the whole basketball team sent a letter of protest to the teacher. Well, it’s a boarding school and it’s closed off from the outside world so it ended up unsettled, but. In normal schools, they could heavily criticize the teacher and force them to retire.
If there’s a point of attack that you can use on the other side, you’ll identify yourself as the right one and the other side as wrong, and hit them hard on that point. Once you created that atmosphere, you can trip them up with your complaints even if the other person made just a small mistake. You can deny their individuality. Thinking that it’s okay to beat them down because they’re in the wrong
Hmm, so that’s the trend
He’s half-hearted smart, and has discernment, and so they direct the ways of cornering the other party. The truth is, I don’t like them on an emotional level, the thought of That one is no good. I can’t forgive them. That’s why they’re bad. is what substitutes in their brain Jii-chan said.
Governor Murata’s skilled in that method. He’s good at deliberately making his opponents lose their words, or at the moment they make a mistake, he’ll do his best to attack them and turn them into people he can beat That’s the only thing he’s trying to do when he was making Yazawa-san or me make a verbal slip. As soon as we make a slip, he’ll start blaming Kouzuki house for being impolite and dominate the discussion that way. Of course, governor Murata never apologized for his disrespectful attitude and remarks.
It may have been good if he was debating on television, but with a child? He acts like a child. He’s not someone we should deal with
You’re right, Kouzuki The two old men nodded at each other.
Was he serious when he said that he had experience in running a business and so he wanted to apply it to politics?
He probably is. What an idiot Old man Kira said. Jii-chan replied.
They think they’ve become successful because of something as a food store chain growing bigger
Well, it’s the result of their hard work, but the idea that they could change the country’s stem because of that experience of success is something to think of
It’s no wonder start-up companies can make quick management decisions based on the will of a single president. It’s a single organization.
It’s dangerous to think that you can run a huge organization or the state with the same mindset as running a company
Indeed, that guy’s been a dictator ever since he’s become a governor. He thinks that he can change everything in the prefecture to his liking because he’s the governor elected by the people
That’s not how it works. In modern politics, there are many checks and balance to prevent a handful of people from running amok
Yes. That’s why it’s not like a private company, where the decision lies to the management alone. Every decision takes time
We’ve already learned the horrors of letting dictators run the government The two old men speak in agreement.
If you want to implement policies following your political philosophy, then you’ll have to go and persuade Congress one-by-one. You have to negotiate with the opposition, and try to win over the officials who will be your limbs
In companies, once you become an employee, your face never changes. But politicians are replaced by the results of elections. It’s no surprise that the officials in government offices are taking cold shoulder to the politicians
Every change in prefectural governor changes the policy. Stupid governors don’t need to be actively associated with since they’ll fall in the next election
When they take a stubborn attitude and say You’re a government official so you have to work according to governor’s orders, then there’s no way they will work properly