It occurred to me while talking to a staff member in his 20s that young people don’t say things like, “We don’t have a TV” or “I don’t watch TV at all. It’s normal to be diverse, and they don’t try to make an identity out of “not being ____”, let alone “being ____“. It may be that the “Heisei shigusa” of mounting others by saying, “How dare you still watch TV? or “How dare you tweet?” or “How dare you do what others do, but you don’t do what others do? https://twitter.com/dr_yandel/status/1457179701881966600?s=21
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