Japanese youth are SOS (virgins and dynamoes reconsidered)

[alice wellintown]

In his Poetics, Aristotle tals about Imitation of Life and Knowing
what is Real and what is merely Theatre. This is, of course, Pynchon
most important theme. A culture Sold On Suicide, one that suffers
froma serious pathology, a Death Against Life cult, has clearly, and
Ironically Returned, not from but to, the Repressed.

In Japan, 'Herbivore' Boys Subvert Ideas Of Manhood
by Louisa Lim

NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120696816