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Offline Seraphina

Re: Hikikomori
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2019, 07:37:10 PM »
Time to reveal how out of step I am with technology!  What is "Reddit" and what, exactly, is a "meme?"  Sorry if I inadvertently offended anyone. 

I've read a few articles about hikikikomori. They are mainly adolescent males who stress out, retreat, and discover they enjoy holing up in their bedrooms with the internet and video games.  Having their mothers continue to cook and do laundry for them is an added bonus.  I can understand a person burning out under stress and retreating, but to make it a lifestyle is not good.  What happens when the parents get old and die?  

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Offline MaterDominici

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« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2019, 08:02:10 PM »
Quote from: Seraphina on June 05, 2019, 07:37:10 PM
with the internet and video games.  
I think this is a big factor fueling this phenomenon. If a rectangular screen didn't provide such endless entertainment, they might find more reasons to go out.
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Offline Ladislaus

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« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2019, 08:09:22 PM »
Quote from: MaterDominici on June 05, 2019, 08:02:10 PM
I think this is a big factor fueling this phenomenon. If a rectangular screen didn't provide such endless entertainment, they might find more reasons to go out.

It's mostly a reaction to the extreme work-a-holic traditional Japanese culture.  These men realize that they would rather work in order to live than live in order to work.  Some of them will get enough work to sustain them in a simple existence and then quit until they need money again.  What's the point of working, if they are under pressure and stress and have miserable lives ... so they reason.
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Offline MaterDominici

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« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2019, 08:13:19 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on June 05, 2019, 08:09:22 PM
It's mostly a reaction to the extreme work-a-holic traditional Japanese culture.  These men realize that they would rather work in order to live than live in order to work.  Some of them will get enough work to sustain them in a simple existence and then quit until they need money again.  What's the point of working, if they are under pressure and stress and have miserable lives ... so they reason.
That would seem quite reasonable to me and if it's indeed the case, the things I've seen about Hikikomori have not done justice to these men. Whatever I watched (sorry, I have no idea what program it was) showed them to be unreasonably reclusive -- sometimes refusing to emerge at all from their room.
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Offline Ladislaus

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« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2019, 08:21:03 PM »
Quote from: MaterDominici on June 05, 2019, 08:13:19 PM
That would seem quite reasonable to me and if it's indeed the case, the things I've seen about Hikikomori have not done justice to these men. Whatever I watched (sorry, I have no idea what program it was) showed them to be unreasonably reclusive -- sometimes refusing to emerge at all from their room.

That's likely the extreme to which their original reaction led.  People often overreact to one extreme by going to the opposite extreme.
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