An assistant professor of economics at Yale Looniversity has become a celebrity in his native Japan… for saying “mass suicide” is the answer to Japan’s demographic woes (https://www.businessinsider.com/yale-professor-suggests-old-japanese-people-should-die-mass-suicide-2023-2).
And if they won’t play ball, he has hinted, maybe the government will just have to make it compulsory. He’s only 37, by the way. Plenty of time to change his mind.
Is it just me, or is it getting harder by the day to keep up one’s morale? I mean, this, as horrible as it is, is only one story out of many just as bad or worse.
I try to follow a bit of wise advise I heard on Christian radio, years ago: When things get worse, “Sing louder.” Try, but often don’t succeed. Never mind, keep trying. Let me post an extra hymn.