Apoliticism and the reign of the hypoviolent society

Apoliticism may be a factor to get obedient masses not much fuss about or even support increasing surveillance and scrutiny in daily life. What's fingerprinting in the age of FaceBook? Have you noticed how the new colored scheme information panels now being installed in JR stations come with very visible surveillance cameras? In a previously countryside like station on the western outskirts of Tokyo I know well - the name is Haijima - the station building now being refurbished into a shopping mall on top of the tracks features the automatic ticket gates with surveillance cameras on both sides, meaning that each single ticket gate is monitored two-ways by two cameras! Japan is set to shine as the world model of social hypoviolence, not hyper, but hypo it is, and not like a Los Angeles urban nightmare where steel walls arise during riots, but a Las Vegas city turned Disneyland, devoid of riot, yet clad in heavy walls still watched upon by elderly guardmen.

Some soon to be past beyond understanding idea is that such low crime society as Japan where civility, less as a moral code than a habit, still functions and crime thrives in mostly bloodless but cash rich areas, would be wise enough not to jump into the fright wagon and refrain delivering cameras in every corners. But apoliticism and wisdom do not get along well. Reading again the interview of David McNeill referred to in a post yesterday, I fancied how apoliticism as advanced as it is in Japan matches the growing equivalent trend of young masses outside Japan. It is only natural to notice in discussion forums - I am thinking of French forums especially - how biometrics screening in Japan is met by many Japan fan with a toned down if not active support of a majority. Apoliticism is a factor where East progressively meets West more than ever before. Skating on the surfaces of things, where the ice is flat, globalized and reflects the individual silhouette blurred in the mass of other skaters. The less we have to think, the more we fit together.