The Philosophy of Yukio Mishima

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  • @Begbiebiswas
    @Begbiebiswas 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You are superb at explaining complex ideas in accessible ways. Thank you

  • @gringosan2586
    @gringosan2586 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Only yesterday I came across the Online Great Books podcast on Sun and Steel, so really looking forward to this episode. Thanks for this!

    • @soysauceboy2023
      @soysauceboy2023 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is that podcast dead?

    • @gringosan2586
      @gringosan2586 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@soysauceboy2023 unfortunately, it does seem to be dead. Have listened to a few shows and will dig though some more. Smart and humorous guys.

  • @briancomforti3890
    @briancomforti3890 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    The cigarettes are key

    • @evanstential
      @evanstential 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Key to what? Headless godhood? 😮

    • @mosinevitable
      @mosinevitable 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Cigarettes literally increase IQ. Look at how gay everything has become since the smoking ban

    • @briancomforti3890
      @briancomforti3890 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@mosinevitable it’s just a coincidence that oral activities increase the likelihood of lung schmancer, and the cigarette bans coincided w some movements

    • @evanstential
      @evanstential 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mosinevitable I understand pheminism movement was leveraged to sell cigarettes

    • @GentlemanLife-Beyotch
      @GentlemanLife-Beyotch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Absolutely.

  • @christianayalacruz1095
    @christianayalacruz1095 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Great to see you cover Mishima! Natural Hypertrophy has a GREAT analysis of Mishima, as well. Highly recommend it as a companion video to this

  • @belacqua4435
    @belacqua4435 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I just got Sun and Steel today. What synchronicity indeed maybe it is a sign that I get a membership to support your podcast.

  • @Edo9River
    @Edo9River 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The letters of the kamikaze pilots is quite moving, I highly recommend reading them

    • @Qdin99
      @Qdin99 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I read them and had to shed a tear or two tbh

  • @BarquitodeVapor
    @BarquitodeVapor 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just finished listening to this episode. Had to rewind a few times and take notes, a lot of dense and beautiful words. Greetings from Chile, Patagonia

  • @ArmwrestlingJoe
    @ArmwrestlingJoe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    One of the most interesting people ever to exist

  • @core-nix1885
    @core-nix1885 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    The whole bit about holding a "living balance" between "mutually antipathetic elements"; an equilibrium of "destruction and [rebirth]", is based on Heraclitus' Logos.
    The Logos is the centerpiece of his ideology, which concentrates on a metaphysical bivalency of "erosion" and "erection".

    • @core-nix1885
      @core-nix1885 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Put simply, he affirms impermanence.

  • @alexanderleuchte5132
    @alexanderleuchte5132 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    1:58 Speaking of artificial flowers and literature i highly recommend the movie "LEOLO" by Jean-Claude Lauzon, an absolute masterpiece

  • @robertmyerson8024
    @robertmyerson8024 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a great episode... Thank you broski

  • @robertb1138
    @robertb1138 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It is definitely the case that words are like digestive acid. And the central tension about life is that this is *necessary* for life, especially civilizational life. Or task is always to remind ourselves of this, but not to let the words simply corrode reality and themselves, which would make us double-blind.

  • @franciscoborja877
    @franciscoborja877 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    what truly impresses about Mishima is how contemporary he seems as a personality today, truly a man with a futuristic vision (with which I cannot but disagree but still impressive)

  • @TacticalWill-sc2ff
    @TacticalWill-sc2ff 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Now we talkin, and lifting!

  • @northmantru6236
    @northmantru6236 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I’ve anticipated this for several weeks. Strange.

  • @gpxavier
    @gpxavier 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic breakdown of an extraordinary book!

  • @valle_4ustral
    @valle_4ustral 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is just what I needed, thank you.

  • @victorcode2075
    @victorcode2075 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Earliest I've been here. Shift workers represent! Looking forward to listening to this, heard interesting things about him. Keep up the phenomenal work Keegan.

  • @Diogenes_43
    @Diogenes_43 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Waiting for the Nietzschian review of Bronze Age Mindset now.

    • @alextrainor2552
      @alextrainor2552 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Stone age sigma mindset after that

    • @damin1916
      @damin1916 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nietzschean

    • @phillipjordan1010
      @phillipjordan1010 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bronze Age Mindset is a complete work of shit. Total shit

  • @LeSadistique
    @LeSadistique หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have been saved by Mishima. I read him for the first time when I was 19. Even though I'm highly intelligent, for me, when I was that age (I'm 31 now), things could be measured by words only. And yet I felt something missed. I felt something deep inside me raged and thrashed in the dark side of the soul, that garden where its flowers hide from blooming in front of men. He turned me from just another intellectual into a follower of Achilles.

    • @yliumy7883
      @yliumy7883 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you're just gay, accept it man

    • @desiconvicted
      @desiconvicted 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@yliumy7883 youre a corny npc, accept it man

  • @jamescareyyatesIII
    @jamescareyyatesIII 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    If you haven't seen Paul Shrader's film "Mishima" it's a masterpiece.

    • @MrUndersolo
      @MrUndersolo หลายเดือนก่อน

      Excellent movie!

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo หลายเดือนก่อน

    After living in Japan and studying the culture, I think this is an excellent addition to that story.

  • @Phessington
    @Phessington 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good introduction ❤

  • @Sarayne13
    @Sarayne13 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Do you have any intention to do a segment on Dostoevsky in the future?

  • @jackpayne4658
    @jackpayne4658 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Mishima always reminds me of Sylvia Plath. A life of brilliant, complex creativity - but with a lifelong attraction to death that could not be postponed indefinitely. The last pages of The Decay of the Angel are Mishima's parallel to Plath's Ariel poems - a final stepping into the long-awaited void.

    • @untimelyreflections
      @untimelyreflections  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      This is a very interesting comparison, in terms of his life. In terms of his philosophy, I saw a huge similarity to the existentialist authors. He's concerned with many of the same questions but comes to very different conclusions than anyone else I've ever read.

    • @candide1065
      @candide1065 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's so wrong and insulting to Mishima and both couldn't be more different in terms of their lifes and works.

    • @autofocus4556
      @autofocus4556 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@candide1065what’s more insulting to him is him killing himself for spectacle.

  • @carlmurphy2416
    @carlmurphy2416 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Can't seem to find anywhere selling this!

  • @ArmwrestlingJoe
    @ArmwrestlingJoe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Been waiting for this one

  • @hammerdureason8926
    @hammerdureason8926 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    mishima livedin a thoroughly sacred/divine psychological space . this was utterly destroyed by Japan's surrender - his divine/idealized/eternal self(spirit) died but the body remained. his life's effort was to solve the problem of the body/his body - that is to discover then prepare, construct & live/execute/experience a bodily death worthy of the death of his ideals. he was an anti-christ archetype -- his trials, suffering & death - his human self sacrifice was to save/restore/resurrect the power of the collective devine body ( not man's ).

  • @spiralations7304
    @spiralations7304 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve noticed it’s a relatively common occurrence in conductive minds I’ve studied to be misdiagnosed with ailments. Just as those of faith can conduct their divination evidently through their physical state, the mental and physical unrest when immersed in philosophical conquest can be highly symptomatic in an individual’s physicality.

  • @tiredidealist
    @tiredidealist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    There's a short video where an old man is shown his own face through his granddaughter's phone, and he says "Is that me?" And she says yes. Then he says "Kill me!" So quickly and so honestly and with such sadness, that I think Mishima might have been onto something. At least in the idea that the soul clings to the body for too long. Maybe that instinct that so many of us have to prefer death - or at least to think that we prefer it - over being confined to our beds in old age is our body speaking to our soul. Almost begging us to not torture it with that experience.

  • @rohanquinby3188
    @rohanquinby3188 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This episode is a revelation to me. I have been hesitant to engage with Mishima because of what could be thought of as his fascist tendencies. I really appreciate your careful explication of his thinking about the relation of thought to the body.

  • @XueYlva
    @XueYlva 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thumbnail: Mishima TinyDesk Seppuku

    • @craigkeller
      @craigkeller 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hellarious!😅

  • @kingdm8315
    @kingdm8315 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Wow I really didn’t expect this

  • @yosefeayala
    @yosefeayala 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    is it trying to extricate ones self from the constraints of the corporeal form?/ only thru death or actively dying do we truly know what it means to be alive? the force of the will brushing up against the force of the world. the stimulus of being (strife and life)=thriving

  • @rexnemorensis8154
    @rexnemorensis8154 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The necessity of opposition as a means to realise one's existence reminds me a little of Hegel's master/slave dialectic.

  • @AsteroidDusts
    @AsteroidDusts 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    三島由紀夫は切腹する時に脂肪が出ると美しくないから筋トレしてました。

  • @evanstential
    @evanstential 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    knowing it will end in death must have been liberating ☠️

  • @tigernmas5796
    @tigernmas5796 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Love the respect with which his body was treated. The mark of a transcendent greatness beyond agreement and disagreement.

  • @thomaslodger7675
    @thomaslodger7675 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic video, I watched a couple of other videos on his philosophy but I just wasn't getting it. Your video helped me understand him a little more

  • @staxstirner
    @staxstirner 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:05:38 pause

  • @theonetruetim
    @theonetruetim 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome!

  • @murrik
    @murrik 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    1:04:00

  • @kennethanderson8827
    @kennethanderson8827 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Writer mask off, for a change, I need a break. Thank you all, no matter your level of participation. Happy Keith Morris Days Forever

  • @ericadler9680
    @ericadler9680 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It would be interesting to know whether Mishima read D.H. Lawrence and if so, what he thought of him. There are certainly similarities.

    • @Doria6
      @Doria6 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I don't believe he every tacitly acknowledged any debt of influence to Lawrence. Its quite clear both are operating in the milieu of decadent romanticism, with attended rightist aesthetic and political tendencies. Both are similar stylists too, its striking how these proclivities manifest even across worlds.

  • @vincentdow5899
    @vincentdow5899 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Mishima, I learned at the Tokaido wood block print exhibit, means *morning mist*
    I’m struck by the Japanese contemplation of atmosphere and meteorology. I have the same affinity

    • @ianm.2699
      @ianm.2699 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      三島 = Mishima means 'three islands'

    • @vincentdow5899
      @vincentdow5899 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ianm.2699 yes. I could swear I read the morning mist bit at the Hiroshige exhibit. I must have misread. Or misremembered.

  • @MsJavaWolf
    @MsJavaWolf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    At my first job we received a donation of several old books. My boss sorted out all the books she thought wouldn't be appropriate for the children, so the staff could pick some to take home and I randomly picked Mishima's "The Sailor who fell from Grace". This was a good experience because usually when I buy a book, I already know who the author is and I often wonder if I overrate books by famous authors, the same way I suspect that I might be more inclined to agree with famous philosophers. I went in completely blind that time and still greatly enjoyed the book.

  • @liltick102
    @liltick102 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why is every creator talking about this all of a sudden- Algorithmic Rach 2 of the phil and psychtube world rn

  • @LittleCheka
    @LittleCheka 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    Should've dropped this one in Pride month

    • @idiramara1
      @idiramara1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      why ?

    • @krunkle5136
      @krunkle5136 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Why should the world move to America's tune of what being gay means?

    • @LittleCheka
      @LittleCheka 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@idiramara1 L

    • @LittleCheka
      @LittleCheka 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@krunkle5136 G

    • @idiramara1
      @idiramara1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LittleCheka That's your answer ? Mishima may have been bisexual or gay, it is very easy to guess that he wouldn't approve of the nihilist degenaracy you call culture. Just like thousands of bisexuals, gays, lesbians all around the world

  • @onyxdefortuitous2783
    @onyxdefortuitous2783 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It has been MANY MOONS since I have heard anything SO INTELLIGENT!!! 🙏🤯So lucid! Both Mishima and the Presenter. WOW!!! ❤️‍🔥

  • @afk2514
    @afk2514 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dionysus versus Apollo.

  • @nickdaring
    @nickdaring 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @tacitpowder8656
    @tacitpowder8656 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I disagree with Mishima on consciousness not playing a part in combat because when someone loads up their strikes with a lot of force they telegraph the movement before the strike is thrown there's a very interesting case of this from a boxing match between an american boxer and a Japanese boxer, where the Japanese fighter was throwing his punches as hard as he could, in reponse the american fighter would use the Japanese fighter's own effort of throwing the strikes against him.

  • @Edo9River
    @Edo9River 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So this means he loved swordsmanship

    • @evanstential
      @evanstential 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      he was a swallower of them 😮

  • @xenoblad
    @xenoblad 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I find it kind of weird how, on one hand, a person can valorize the world of experience over that of the merely theoretical and then, on the other hand, jump head first in to the socially constructed theory of Shinto theocratic Japanese nationalism.

    • @brocken_spectre7734
      @brocken_spectre7734 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Contrary to popular belief, there are still many that consider the pre-revolutionary traditional world to be the natural state of mankind.

  • @languagegame410
    @languagegame410 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the markets are crashing... and i'm losing a fortune in real time... and yet!!... the Nietzsche Podcast Guy posted another episode on TH-cam... so... all may be well... (many thanks!)

    • @solorollo9756
      @solorollo9756 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      With any luck, the stock market will crash completely

    • @languagegame410
      @languagegame410 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@solorollo9756 if it does... then the Cap.PIGGYgods be praised!!... i'll ride Her down (shorting)... then ride Her up (going long)... again... and again.. and again.
      "i love thee, o, Eternity...
      o, Eternity, how i love thee!"

    • @languagegame410
      @languagegame410 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      o, thou art proud, immortalKEEG!!... lololo... how proud thou art! lolo

    • @solorollo9756
      @solorollo9756 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@languagegame410 are you on drugs?

  • @Useroftubeuuu
    @Useroftubeuuu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thought I may have been the only one who saw aspects of Nietzschean philosophy in his novels especially Golden Pavillion and the short story Tears in the Fountain(i might be getting the name wrong).

  • @philalethes216
    @philalethes216 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was so good.

    • @evanstential
      @evanstential 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      why?

    • @philalethes216
      @philalethes216 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@evanstential Listen and find out

    • @evanstential
      @evanstential 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@philalethes216 I want to know from you, buddy 😊

  • @ClaudeArmel
    @ClaudeArmel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Listening to you channel feels like cheating.

  • @alexanderleuchte5132
    @alexanderleuchte5132 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "Rather seek a violent death than to come out of the closet" - Yukio Mishima
    This is also the key to the weird alliance of Germany and Japan in WW2 by the way

    • @alexanderleuchte5132
      @alexanderleuchte5132 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I recommend the "Men, Heroes and..." documentary film by Rosa von Praunheim for a deep dive

    • @untimelyreflections
      @untimelyreflections  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Things men will do before going to therapy

    • @ArmwrestlingJoe
      @ArmwrestlingJoe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I don’t see why people focus so much on his sexuality and through a modern Freudian lens say his frustrations with being gay led him to suicide while simultaneously ignoring the entire philosophical framework he established breaking down all his beliefs about death and what it means to live a meaningful life. I don’t see him like guys as having as big of an impact as people think.

    • @Nlbg16
      @Nlbg16 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      ​@@ArmwrestlingJoe It's a convenient way to dismiss him, it gives a feeling of power

    • @ArmwrestlingJoe
      @ArmwrestlingJoe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@Nlbg16true
      *writes multiple best selling novels, plays and poetry, while simultaneously dedicating life to bodybuilding and the pursuit of physical perfection, stands up for what he believes in ultimately dying for it*
      “He was gay tho”

  • @Mark-Walsh
    @Mark-Walsh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you’re a Westerner seriously intersted in the marriage of budo and weight lifting do take a look at my other Feral Philosophy channel. Mishima is wonder but also far too foreign for the vast majority of viewers to be actually useful.

  • @lionelinx7
    @lionelinx7 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Much needed Introduction to Mishima, I have been wanting to read him for some time now.

  • @onetruesavior69
    @onetruesavior69 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So SMT's Chaos is basically this guy's "HURRR DURRR MAKE NIPPON GREAT AGAIN"? Bruh.

    • @00TheD
      @00TheD 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Lcd thinkers can bring even the highest principles to their level. Hyenas in thought.

    • @VolkColopatrion
      @VolkColopatrion 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Why do you have to say it's so derogatory like that you say it like it's a bad thing

    • @krunkle5136
      @krunkle5136 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@VolkColopatrionbecause nationalism is the great sin in our neoliberal order.

    • @VolkColopatrion
      @VolkColopatrion 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@krunkle5136 says who? These ideas don't have to be mutually exclusive

    • @krunkle5136
      @krunkle5136 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@VolkColopatrionidk, it's at least hard to be healthily nationalist in a world saturated with multinational corporations who don't have loyalty, and would like to maintain that disloyalty as a default.

  • @bronzedisease
    @bronzedisease 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Most of his thoughts hardly qualify as philosophy, and his political opinions are just childish, though he did have something to say about aesthetics. Not comfortable things , in a lot of ways, rather twisted.

    • @candide1065
      @candide1065 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Now I'm really curious about your philosophical and political thoughts, Mr. Ronald McDonald.

    • @bronzedisease
      @bronzedisease 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@candide1065 nothing worth mentioning. Your sarcasm is curious. Have you even read anything by Mishima ?

    • @candide1065
      @candide1065 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@bronzedisease Yeah, I've read 3 of his novels (Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Life for Sale) + "Sun and Steel" so far (since those are available in my language) and I've read some essays and short stories of him in english.
      So what have you read of him to come to a conclusion that you seemingly can't explain in any way? Let alone offering a better way of thinking opposed to his "childish" bad philosophical and political thoughts.

    • @bronzedisease
      @bronzedisease 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@candide1065 I cannot summarize this on a random Wednesday to justify my opinion to someone on the internet. politics, he was obsessed with militarism and the emperor (tradition). their (that group in general) interpretation of bushido is at best fantastic. All that is just regurgitated nonsense from the Second World War and before. He was well aware that his obsession with "patriotism" was narcissistic. but despite all that, I loved some of his work and fortunately for the most part his politics didn't leave that much of a mark (esp novels). You could enjoy Hojo no umi or gold pavilion regardless

    • @candide1065
      @candide1065 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@bronzedisease No offense in any way but if you can't/don't want to justify your opinion, you might not want to dismiss a writer completely and share your very harsh opinion.
      Other people in Japan were "obsessed" with the emperor, too. There are still kingdoms, like in Sweden, and all people talk about royals. That's natural in many countries, even western ones.
      I also don't see the problem with being into militarism. Not every country in the world is (supposedly) anti-militarist like all those milk toast western countries. You just seem to struggle empathising with people from a different culture.
      I particularly don't see the connection between patriotism and narcissism. Is every patriot narcissist? That really just sounds like a very western (that's anything but a compliment) woke-leftist take.
      I don't want to delegitimize your opinion. Let's agree on disagreeing, I guess.

  • @Dorian_sapiens
    @Dorian_sapiens 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's weird how lionizing a fascist on youtube summons fascists to the comment section to say fascist things, isn't it? One of life's eternal mysteries.

    • @poon_don
      @poon_don 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, because nobody who could be labeled a fascist (or any other disagreeable label for that matter) has ever had a good idea or grasped at any sort of truth beyond the political.
      No such thing as a complex, multi-faceted individual; no way no how

    • @Dorian_sapiens
      @Dorian_sapiens 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@poon_don I didn't contradict any of that, did I?
      (I understand people's reading comprehension sometimes fails in their rush to defend fascists. Don't beat yourself up about it.)

    • @exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen
      @exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Admittedly. Not that it is much of a problem though.

  • @RoyalistKev
    @RoyalistKev 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Are we BAPmaxxxing?

    • @namelessmonster2166
      @namelessmonster2166 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      what is bap? that women don't want men that moevement?

    • @angelohieronymous2692
      @angelohieronymous2692 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Bronze age peeing

    • @MagnificentMelkior
      @MagnificentMelkior 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      BAP is gay and jewish

    • @kurts4867
      @kurts4867 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      many such cases...

    • @tb4544
      @tb4544 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That guy is a creep.

  • @ericadler9680
    @ericadler9680 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    That Mishima wanted the emperor to be an absolute political authority is not true. He was a democrat who wanted the emperor to be a cultural symbol only, and he defended freedom of speech. For that reason he received death threats from people who wanted an imperial authoritarian rule.

    • @untimelyreflections
      @untimelyreflections  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      I had read that he believed the emperor to be a God, and since he wanted to return Japan to its political structure before American occupation, wouldn’t that mean returning to absolute monarchy? I do realize that the Japanese monarchy was “absolute” but with caveats. But where are you reading that he was a democrat? In any case, if I was wrong, I’m open to correction.

    • @seanblanchet1058
      @seanblanchet1058 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Literally attempted a coup with one of the goals being to reinstate the emperor as the (actual) head of the state. He gave a speech to soldiers at the barracks where he stated this as his objectives (and then killing himself after getting booed). And I really want to see where in his writings you see any propensity for freedom of speech, because in response to the labour and student protests occuring in his country, he gave himself the mission to make little black shirt organisations to train for an eventual clash with said protestors.

    • @ForbiddenCatBelly
      @ForbiddenCatBelly 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@untimelyreflectionstime for a document-by-document deep dive to get to the truth of the matter

    • @christianayalacruz1095
      @christianayalacruz1095 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Mishima was 100% NOT pro-democracy. OP either heard that somewhere and is parroting it or he is thinking of someone else..

    • @s.lazarus
      @s.lazarus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      OP definitely smoked some crack before writing this one.

  • @bobcabot
    @bobcabot 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jaaaaaaaaaaaa AOKIGAHARA forever.........................................................................................................................................

  • @alphachicken9596
    @alphachicken9596 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude drowned in a bucket of Shinto and couldve learned alot from a drop of Zen. imo
    I generally like people who actualize their philosophy (like no one in this comments section has probably done lmao) but his inability to realize his own tragedy as a post-war victim of a dead empire is the truly tragic story. The man so against rationalization thought himself to death.

    • @hammerdureason8926
      @hammerdureason8926 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      you confident condescending take of both mishima & the viewers of this channel is a measure of you're lack of maturity & imagination.

    • @alphachicken9596
      @alphachicken9596 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hammerdureason8926 that's fine. Do you want to talk about the content of either the video or my comment?

  • @jordicarreras7381
    @jordicarreras7381 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Human, all too human.

  • @nanashi7779
    @nanashi7779 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    What an interesting guy. So conflicted, and a bit too gay

    • @VonAggelby
      @VonAggelby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      There is no such thing as "a bit too gay".

    • @nanashi7779
      @nanashi7779 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@VonAggelby you're right, there probably is no such thing as being gay at all

    • @VonAggelby
      @VonAggelby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@nanashi7779 correct term would be "rather queer".

    • @MagnificentMelkior
      @MagnificentMelkior 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@VonAggelbyyou're gay

    • @108chapin
      @108chapin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The correct term is actually "a smidge of an ass pirate"

  • @ballshippin3809
    @ballshippin3809 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    His take on women and misogyny would make Andrew Tate look woke in comparison 😂. Love Yukio Mishima 💪

  • @airbound1779
    @airbound1779 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Truly based

  • @zerotwo7319
    @zerotwo7319 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    what if science discovers that everything he is saying is truth and it is measurable, observable... I feel that act of exposure would be a disfavor to his philosophy. Some things are better left unsaid? Could we not dare to explain?