/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>25733

from wikipedia:

1. Middle class affluence in a post-industrial society such as Japan allows parents to support and feed an adult child in the home indefinitely. Lower-income families do not have hikikomori children because a socially withdrawing youth is forced to work outside the home if he cannot finish school; for this reason, isolation in the room stops at an early stage.[6]
2. The inability of Japanese parents to recognize and act upon the youth's slide into isolation; soft parenting; or even a codependent collusion between mother and son, known as amae in Japanese. When a youth withdraws from life, parents can act or respond in such a way that causes the child to become even more secluded and isolated.[7]
3. A decade of flat economic indicators and a shaky job market in Japan makes the pre-existing system requiring years of competitive schooling for elite jobs seem like a pointless effort to many [8]. While Japanese fathers of the current generation of youth still enjoy lifetime employment at multinational corporations, incoming employees in Japan enjoy no such guarantees in today's job market [9] (See Freeters and NEET for more on this). Younger Japanese people are savvy enough to see that the system put in place for their grandfathers and fathers no longer works [10], and for some, the lack of a clear life goal makes them susceptible to social withdrawal as a hikikomori.

these plainly apply to many in the US, and probably a fair amount of people reading this sentence right now.

not the majority of course. we are all (with the exception of the self-sustaining shut-ins who have posted) overpriveleged faggots. any of us who do not accept that our problems are inextricably linked to our privelege are idiots.