[P2P-F] Fwd: BBC Article : virtual girlfriends ? ( Japanese games )

Fri Oct 25 19:25:16 CEST 2013

A funny article, from many points of view. The reproduction of the working
class is important for capitalism to exist. And I use the word reproduction
literally :).

2013/10/25 Tom Walker <lumpoflabor at gmail.com>

> "A survey... found..." Surveys don't "find" anything. People who conduct
> surveys infer "findings" from them.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> *'A survey by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2010 found
>> 36% of Japanese males aged 16 to 19 had no interest in sex - a figure that
>> had doubled in the space of two years.'
>>
>> *
>> That is indeed worrying!  These 'non alpha males' are unlikely to respond
>> to the sexual cues that pervade advertising, and so are unlikely to play
>> their part in keeping the consumer culture going. Oh dear!.
>>
>> Anna
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Michel Bauwens <
>> michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:37 PM
>>> Subject: BBC Article : virtual girlfriends ? ( Japanese games )
>>> To:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24614830
>>>
>>> *This girlfriend is actually a Nintendo computer game called Love Plus,
>>> which comes as a small portable tablet. *
>>>
>>> Nurikan and Yuge take their girlfriends, Rinko and Ne-ne, on actual
>>> dates to the park, and buy them cakes to celebrate their birthdays.
>>>
>>> Nurikan says he keeps Rinko a secret from his wife, and hopes he never
>>> has to choose between them.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> They are a generation of geeks who have grown up through 20 years of
>>> economic stagnation and have chosen to tune out and immerse themselves in
>>> their own fantasy worlds.
>>>
>>>  It seems they no longer have the ambition of the post-war alpha males
>>> who made Japan such an economic powerhouse and no interest in joining a
>>> company and becoming a salary man.
>>>
>>> They have taken on a mole-like existence and, worryingly, withdrawn from
>>> relationships with the opposite sex.
>>>
>>> A survey by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2010 found 36%
>>> of Japanese males aged 16 to 19 had no interest in sex - a figure that had
>>> doubled in the space of two years.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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