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ms_tiahmarie 's review for:
Bullet Train
by Kōtarō Isaka
My thoughts via the Sunday Times: https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/news/2021-05-16-book-news--la-jennifer-platt/
~Probably nothing going on inside, thinks Tangerine. Often the case with people who don't read fiction.~
~It wasn't just the Rwandans who expected the Americans to act a certain way. Most Japanese people think that if there's ever a major problem, America or the UN will deal with it. A feeling like the police are on the job and will take care of everything. When in reality, the US and the UN determine their course of action based not on any sense of mission or moral obligation, but on a calculation of profit and loss.~
~When you lead a group by fear the rank and file lose trust in one another. The stronger the fear, the weaker the trust. The anger and resentment at the despot is turned on people who should be allies, making the spark of rebellion less likely. Everyone just wants to keep themselves safe, their only goal is to avoid being punished, and they start watching one another.~
~My father told me something before he died...He said never trust authors who overuse sentence fragments or conversationalists who use the word irregardless.~
~People act like the common dandelion is the culprit in the drop-off of the Kanto dandelion, and that humans are merely the witnesses, but the truth is it's the humans who are to blame. Common dandelions just happen to be tough enough to live with humans. Even if the common dandelion hadn't appeared, the Kanto dandelion would still be dying off.~
~[F]or economic activity to function properly there would have to be protection for people's lives, or at least a pretence of protection. Which is why the state puts into place rules and prohibitions, one of which is the prohibition on murder...With that in mind, it makes perfect sense why wars and the death penalty are allowed. Because they serve the needs of the state. The only things that are allowed are the things the state sanctions. Which has nothing to do with ethics.~
~I don't like children who brag about not crying at movies, because no one cries at movies when they're young. People don't start getting weepy over nothing until they're older...If someone wants to brag about not crying, they should do it when they're old.~
~Probably nothing going on inside, thinks Tangerine. Often the case with people who don't read fiction.~
~It wasn't just the Rwandans who expected the Americans to act a certain way. Most Japanese people think that if there's ever a major problem, America or the UN will deal with it. A feeling like the police are on the job and will take care of everything. When in reality, the US and the UN determine their course of action based not on any sense of mission or moral obligation, but on a calculation of profit and loss.~
~When you lead a group by fear the rank and file lose trust in one another. The stronger the fear, the weaker the trust. The anger and resentment at the despot is turned on people who should be allies, making the spark of rebellion less likely. Everyone just wants to keep themselves safe, their only goal is to avoid being punished, and they start watching one another.~
~My father told me something before he died...He said never trust authors who overuse sentence fragments or conversationalists who use the word irregardless.~
~People act like the common dandelion is the culprit in the drop-off of the Kanto dandelion, and that humans are merely the witnesses, but the truth is it's the humans who are to blame. Common dandelions just happen to be tough enough to live with humans. Even if the common dandelion hadn't appeared, the Kanto dandelion would still be dying off.~
~[F]or economic activity to function properly there would have to be protection for people's lives, or at least a pretence of protection. Which is why the state puts into place rules and prohibitions, one of which is the prohibition on murder...With that in mind, it makes perfect sense why wars and the death penalty are allowed. Because they serve the needs of the state. The only things that are allowed are the things the state sanctions. Which has nothing to do with ethics.~
~I don't like children who brag about not crying at movies, because no one cries at movies when they're young. People don't start getting weepy over nothing until they're older...If someone wants to brag about not crying, they should do it when they're old.~