Why is the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan being treated like a national crisis? Are there legitimate health concerns involved or is it more related to culture?
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Because they are, for the most part, not productive members of society.
And honestly this isn’t a Japanese exclusive problem, they just seem to have been the first to identify/name it and try to do something about it. It’s for sure happening in the US as well, I myself know plenty of young people (20-30) who have essentially not left their homes in years (pre-covid mind you).
And as another posted mentioned extreme isolation like that isn’t good for the mind and a lot of these people wind up falling down some pretty dark rabbit holes, only to pop out sometime later spewing crazy nonsense (Q is a secret operative within the government who can read the secret messages Trump is blinking to us) or worse killing a bunch of people before (usually) killing themselves.
It’s a problem we’re going to have to actually tackle at some point, but our media and politicians seem to be interested in everything but.
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