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"Modern civilization uses all means to help develop the individuals' personality, only to do everything in its power to crush it afterwards. It distributes to every one of us a few square meters and tells us we are free to do whatever we wish in that particular space. Simultaneously, it raises barriers around us and threatens us with all sorts of terrifying consequences should we dare trespass them. It is therefore natural that one who is free in that place given to them to desire freedom outside these borders as well. The pitiful who defer to civilization are constantly crashed against the walls of their captivity, [...] although they have been tossed in a cage meant to preserve universal peace. But such peace is not genuine." [Natsume Soseki - Kusamakura, 1915]

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"It is a constantly recurring concept in Itō Sei's works that at the root of the cultural difference between the West and East lies this contrast in their respective attitudes towards the self, which has subsequently produced different modes of thought and intellectual postures: People who are strongly aware of their own ego as well as the egoism of others, cooperate in a social contract whereby they voluntarily suppress it. Religion and democratic politics fulfill this function. A society where such a contract has been created operates smoothly. People who are not strongly aware of their ego cannot adapt their mutual relationships accordingly, and that is why they accept the fact of organization being imposed on them by an outside authority. In this situation an absolutist feudal system retains its power over a long period… In the first type of society, the human conflict rises in the heart of the restrained individual. Those aware of the conflict are led to mental destruction. In the second type of society such men abandon society and politics, and become social recluses; and here only one step separates them from suicide. The fact that in modern Europe there are many writers who have gone insane, and in Japan many who have committed suicide seems to be a manifestation of this tendency." [Irena Powell – Writers and Society in Modern Japan, 1983]