"Stupid White Men"
(Stupides hommes blancs)
I went to Ginza the other day.
It is only to show that I don't hate Ginza.
Additionally, it is to show Ginza to people outside Japan, including overseas Japanese and foreigners learning Japanese who have not seen it for a long time or not at all, for some precautions.
Even Mr. Michael Moore might like those pictures.
SECTION I: "DEAR GEORGE"
"All those men roaming around the White House - Dick, Rummy, Colin - not a single one is a pal of yours!...
But you're one of us - a Boomer, a C student, a partier! What the hell are you doing with that crowd?...
They probably didn't tell you that the tax cut they drew up for you to sign was a swindle to take money from the middle class and give it to the super-rich..."
- Mr. Michael Moore -
Mr. Michael Moore wrote the book "STUPID WHITE MEN," which was finely timed and published, namely after 2000 Presidential Election but before 2001 Terror on New York and the Pentagon.
It might be regarded as an unbiased assessment on President Mr. George W. Bush, since history is at its every moment.
SECTION II: "IDIOT NATION"
"...George W. Bush spoke proudly of having been a mediocre student at Yale. 'And to the C students, I say you, too, can be President of the United States!'....
Recently a group of 556 seniors at fifty-five prestigious American universities (e.g., Harvard, Yale, Stanford) were given a multiple-choice test consisting of questions that were described as 'high school level.' Thirty-four questions were asked. These top students could only answer 53 percent of them correctly. And only one student got them all right.
A whopping 40 percent of these students did not know when the Civil War took place..."
- Mr. Michael Moore -
If you have too large money and too powerful military, you might not be highly motivated to give truly excellent education and discipline to young people in the society and the nation.
If the White House, the Congress, the State Department, the Defense Department, the Treasury Department, FBI, and CIA are all filled with those students after graduation, they cannot control behaviors and attitudes of businesses in the defense sector, the financial sector, the medical sector, and the oil sector as well as other industries.
So, the 9/11 terror should occur; the subprime loan problem should occur; and you would have no other choices but "Hillary" or "Obama" eventually, good or bad.
SECTION IV: "Tallahassee Hi-Ho"
"Privately, I think most people in the Nader camp thought what I thought - that once Gore had a chance to wipe the floor with Bush in a debate, the election would be over..."
- Mr. Michael Moore -
This is significance.
Michael, I also saw the debate on TV in 2000. Mr. Bush looked like falling on his face in the debate hall. Mr. Al Gore sternly pointed at the lack of concrete figures in words Mr. Bush awkwardly delivered as a defense in front of a TV camera.
The atmosphere the Democrat Presidential candidate Mr. Al Gore too confidently displayed in that well-known debate reminded me of some elite Israelite Americans that had harmed Japan at the height of the reign of then President Mr. Bill Clinton.
I, honestly, mused, "God should help George Bush under the attack by US intellectual elites."
And, he was elected as US President eventually, to your and our astonishment.
* * *
And seven years later, the God has showed us some more interesting showdowns:
Mr. Al Gore got the Nobel Prize; Mr. Michael Moore also got rewarded with big film prizes, even in France, and became a globally famous man; and Mr. George W. Bush has so far succeeded in maintaining discipline in the White House while protecting the two most sacred cities in the world, Jerusalem and Mecca.
And, if you have a glass of beer, you don't feel danger in drinking together with George or Michael, so long as they are ordinary citizens which they should be.
(Oh, Mlle., I saw Paris on an NHK TV channel yesterday.
Ms. Hiroko Kuniya, a very succesfull Japanese TV moderator, didn't look like a Parisienne.
Paris itself didn't look like Paris, though I could spot the Eiffel Tower standing in the cold over her and the Seine.
However, her report on education in Europe, especially in Finland, is very instructive.
It is not knowledge, logic, and even judgment, but a sense of mission in one's life, whether a belief in predetermination or not, isn't it?)
"FINAL WARNINGS AND GREETINGS"
(LETZTE WARNUNGEN UND GRUSSE)