Comments on: They considered themselves morally superior to older politicians https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/they-considered-themselves-morally-superior-to-older-politicians/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: E.E. https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/they-considered-themselves-morally-superior-to-older-politicians/comment-page-1/#comment-2807434 E.E. Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:53:34 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45224#comment-2807434 Man, this passage makes me understand what Anand meant in his review.

1. The decision to have the Shogun surrender his powers came after his defeat in 1866.

2. The imperial court had active players, including one famous Iwakura guy.

3. It wasn’t all fiction, the Emperor became more powerful than the position had been in centuries.

Anyways, this won’t distract me from pointing out that the excesses of WW2 was essentially a delayed reaction of the Meiji suppression of the ‘Joi’ crowd.

Fate can only be avoided for so long.

]]> By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/they-considered-themselves-morally-superior-to-older-politicians/comment-page-1/#comment-2807428 Kirk Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:49:11 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45224#comment-2807428 Hopefully, someone will have the wit and wisdom to study and compare the different ways the Japanese and Chinese dealt with having a more advanced civilization show up out of the blue, when and if we are ever confronted with an alien civilization.

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