何故私が医学部を辞めて宣教師になろうと思ったか(中編) How I decided to quit the medical school and be a missionary(Part 2)

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・高校入学後の教育に対する疑問

受験前の波乱とは対照的に、入試はあっけなく感じるほど上手くいった。これで、4年間、数多のものを犠牲にして目指してきた学校生活が送れるのだ。自由な校風で、レベルの高い学校であれば、退屈な授業もなく理想的な生活が送れるだろうと思っていた。その期待はあっけなく裏切られる。結局、大学受験を見据える限り、学校では"教科書に沿って""カリキュラム通り"に教えられることが主軸となるのだ。大体の授業は、退屈だった。睡眠不足など自分自身に非もあったと思うが、他の生徒も気怠そうにしていたので、全体的な原因があったと思う。それは主に以下だ。(学校で働く先生を貶しているわけではなく、学校というシステムに問題があるというのが論点です。)(※深い話なので詳細は別記事に)

  1. 学習内容が一般的にどう生徒の人生に関係するかが不明瞭。

    本の学校教育全体として、教育の目的が”社会で通用する人間を育てること”ではなく”学問をする(≒大学に行く)”ことになっていると感じる。小学校の算数では、旅人算やら最小公倍数やらを習う。国語では日本語の文法、理科では冬眠する生物など。これらはランダムに挙げてみたのだが、これらの知識を、実生活で使っている社会人はほんの一握りだろう。
    他方、”自己管理””人間関係”"記憶""お金""人生の目的"など人生で確実に触れることになる項目については全く触れられない。
    では、何故これらのものを習っているのかというと、「学問としての土台だから」というのが答えになるのだろう。文法は、古文の文法、言語学に繋がるし、冬眠も生物学に繋がっていく。学問をすること自体は良いことだと思うが、それは世界への理解が深まり、人生を望む方に進めやすくなるからだ。今の教育で、”世界への理解を深めよう”という意識はほとんど感じないし、それを"人生に活かそう"という心意気もほとんど感じたことがない。教科書に書いてあるから、入試に出るから教えているというのが全教師の本音だと思う。政府という権威によって体制が作られ、それを中心に教育業界も社会も回っているが、体制の中を覗いたら張りぼてだったというのが今の状況だ。現在、多くの人が高校や大学に行くが、その教育はほぼ評価されず、目的が”高卒、大卒の肩書を得る”ことになっているのが、その一つの証拠である。

  2. 学習内容が個人個人の人生に沿っていない。

    これも、同じくデカい体制だけができていて、中身が何もないという話だ。文科省の意向により(専門学校以外の)学校では多くの教科で全ての分野をまんべんなく習う。入試でも全ての分野がまんべんなく出題される。それゆえ、生徒はそれぞれの興味にそぐわないものを学ぶ羽目になる。人は興味があるところに才能も持っている。人生は才能を軸にして彩られていく。興味がないことを習うのは、人生に関係ないことを習うのと同じだと思う。
    今の体制では、たとえ高校生の時に、カメムシの研究者になりたいと思っても、大学入試ではカメムシの知識の深さは問われず、カメムシに関係のない歴史、化学、古文など多くのことを覚えなければならない。これがカメムシの研究に役立つとは到底思えない。同じことは、プログラマーでも料理人でもいえる。

  3. 学習方法が本来の学習とかけ離れている。

    学校で学問をするにしても、今のやり方がいいとは到底思えない。学問と学校はかけ離れている。学問は個人の主体的な探求である。学校のカリキュラムは生徒の興味に合わせていない。生徒は受動的に学ぶしかない。科学の基本である仮説と検証もおそわらない。学びを通して、発見を体験することもない。既に答えのある問題を出され、表面的な答えを教師に教わり、答えを暗記すればするほど評価される。これも入試がゴールになっているからだと思う。(何故なのかは冷静に考えれば考えるほど不思議である)。学問らしきものを学んでいるが、知識人でも研究者でもなく、入試突破の達人になって学校を卒業させられるというのが今の教育だと思う。

 

上記で挙げたような日本の現状はあまりに長い間、世界でも標準とされているため、それを変えた教育など不可能じゃないか?と思われるかもしれない。しかし、これらを改善した教育は存在する。一つは、キリストの弟子訓練。もう一つは、モンテッソーリ教育だ。藤井聡太が出てきた時、彼の才能を伸ばしたとして注目された”生徒個人に合わせた探求型の教育手法”である。他にもMicrosoft, Google, Amazon, Facebookの創業者をふくめた多くの著名人もこの教育を受けたらしい。

その報道を聞いたとき、”やっぱりなア”と思った。T字型人材が活躍すると言われている世の中で、どう考えても個人の才能を伸ばすモンテッソーリは有効であるし、才能以外を無理やり伸ばさせられる今の教育は間違ったことをしている。1億人が多くの時間と才能を無駄にさせられているのだ。人々はあの報道を聞いて激怒してよかったと思う。(ちなみに、灘でも課外活動は探求型にする文化があり、そちらは多大な成果を出している)。

ビル・ゲイツやイーロン・マスク、藤井聡太も受けていた「モンテッソーリ教育」とは? | Business Insider Japan

 

ただ、受験マシーンと化していた16歳に、これらのことは説明できなかった。直感的に「何かおかしい」と思っただけである。それでも、勉強には身が入らなくなった。他の生徒は普通に勉強していた。こういった違和感を覚えられたのはホームスクール的な要素もあった知育教育の影響だ。みんなが黙々としている無機質な受験勉強は、いとも簡単に情緒あふれる知育教育にできると思った。それが実現していないのは、単に政府にビジョンがないからとしか当時は思っていなかった。これらのことは、政治に興味をもち、どれほど社会が狂っているかを発見していくきっかけになった。

 

東日本大震災後の政治に対する興味

 

14歳の3月に東日本大震災が起きた。高校に入っても日本全国の原発は停止したままで、”原発を再開すべきかどうか”の議論がテレビで延々繰り広げられていた。ただ誰も明快な議論をしていなかった。原発反対派は「今後も福島原発のような事故が起きる可能性があるため、原発を停止すべき」といい、賛成派は「電気代を低く抑えるために、原発再開は必要」ということを、ひたすらテレビでしゃべっていた。この主張は別々の観点で話しているので、議論は進みようがない。結局、なんとなく政府は原発再開することになり、国民もなんとなくその事実を受け入れることになった。

どうも東電や、政府の対応から、「再開しないといけない理由がある」ように見えた。反対派は、原子力村の利権のせいだと指摘していたが、それも説得力に欠ける説明だった。何故なら、これまで”郵政民営化””国鉄民営化”など、政府が巨大利権に切り込んできたことはあったからだ。チェルノブイリに次ぐ事故が起きていて、どうしてそれを変えられないことがあろうか?

自分はこの成り行きが非常に不満であった。再開すべきかすべきでないか、答えは一つのはず。それなのに、問題の核心がうやむやになりながら話が進んでいると感じた。国民も気づかず、ジャーナリストは切り込めず、政治家は逃げ回って、誰も問題に対処できないようだった。これらのことは、原発事故によって偶然浮かび上がってきただけで、他にもっと深い問題はあるのだろうと感じた。

 

(ちなみに、この議論の答えはこの本に書かれている)

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当時、より大きな問題に向き合えば、より大きな影響力が持てて、エラくなれると思っていた自分は、この社会でより対処すべき問題が何なのか探し始めた。生活保護受給やら従軍慰安婦やら色々と通ったが、そこで運よく、ネット上で経済学について教える人と出会えた。経済というのは”経世済民”(世をよく治め、民を救うこと)という単語から取っている。実際、経済政策が良ければ、民衆は貧困に陥らなくて済むし、人々が豊かになれば幸福度も上がる。広く世の中にいい影響を与え、困窮した人を助けたいという自分にはぴったりの話だった。

 

そこで学んだのは主に以下のことである。(※これも詳細は別記事に)

  • 日本は30年間不景気であるが、不景気の時は、民衆にお金がないので、政府がお金を使って景気を回復させるべきである。日本政府(特に財務省)は国の借金を気にして、政府の出費を削り、消費税率を引き上げて、税収を増やそうとしている。これらは、どちらも民衆のお金を減らすので逆効果である。
  • ”国の財政破綻論””国民の借金が~万円””それゆえ消費税も引き上げるべき”というのは財務省の圧力でマスコミが推している説で、これは全くの誤りである。
  • 景気が悪くなると自殺者数は増える。日本の不況は自殺者数を増やしている。
    自殺者数と景気の関係 - NTTコム リサーチ 調査結果

 

ここで要となるのは、自殺者数の話である。政治が悪いと、人が大規模に死ぬことになるのだ。それをどうにかする方法は経済学で答えが出ているにもかかわらず、どうも日本政府はできていないらしい。

 

・諜報組織という陰謀

 

その後、さらに自分で調べて以下のことが分かった。

 

アメリカは日本人が思っているより遥かに多くの国に、ひそかに影響を与えている。その窓口になっているのがCIAである。

CIAと聞くと、すぐに怪しい陰謀論だと思う人がいるらしいが、CIAは秘密組織であって当然陰謀をしている。それは、政治的なアプローチで立証できる確実な話だ。他にも、同じような証拠は山ほどある。

CIA:世界最凶のテロリスト (2020) - YouTube

CIA:戦争とフェイクニュース (1986) - YouTube

An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins | TEDxTraverseCity - YouTube

 

ほとんどの人にとって、アメリカという国の中枢が、他国を蹴落とし、大量に人を殺してでも、自国の利益を追求していることは知られていない。上の例のうち、領土問題は現在もつづく話であり、日中関係が悪化した2012年頃にはテレビでも討論番組がたくさんあった。しかし、アメリカという問題の本質を突いた登壇者は誰もいなかった。これも、当時はテレビはアメリカに握られているからだとしか思っていなかった。

何はともあれ、こうして、自分はその時々の好奇心を満たし、すべきと感じたことをしていった結果、ごく自然な流れで、変わった世界観を持つ高校生になっていた。

 

・友人の統合失調症と進路決断

 

再び時は遡り、15歳の時に、幼馴染が統合失調になった。原因は親がネグレクトだったことである。最初は幻覚を見てうわ言を言うぐらいのことだった。しかし、医師は心の問題に全く対処せず、薬を処方するだけだった。薬を飲む量は着実に増えてゆき、多い時には一日に40錠の薬を飲んでいた。その頃には、副作用が明らかに見えた。彼は会話でろれつが回らなくなり、太り、集中力の欠如で普通の会話もできなくなった。彼は数時間置きに、薬を飲まないと気持ち悪くなって動けなくなるようになってしまった。

これは、障碍者を弟に持つ身として衝撃的な出来事であった。普通に生活し、一緒に遊んでいた友人が、ある日を境に生活もまともにできない障碍者となったのだ。

例のサプリメントの経験から、(薬は一時的な補助になり得るだけで、長期的には体の仕組みを壊すことになる)と感じていた自分や母は、(これは統合失調症ではなく、副作用でこうなっているのではないか?)と思った。心の問題が解決できるかと思って、教会に誘ったが、その時は彼には響かなかったみたいだった。彼はネグレクト家庭故、食生活が破綻していたので、自分たちは例のサプリメントを勧めた。これも、結論付けることはできないのだが、事実としてサプリメントを飲んでいる間、彼の薬の量は減っていった。しかし、あと1錠というところで、親がサプリメントを止めたりなんなりで、サプリメントを飲まなくなってしまうのである。その後、また薬の服用は増え、本人が危機感を持ってサプリメントを再開すると、薬の服用は減っていった。(この流れは3回以上繰り返した)。変な話だと思うが、これは彼が本気で治りたいと思っていなかったからだと思っている。彼には親の愛が必要だった。そして、心の奥で、病気をきっかけに親が振り向いてくれることを望んでいたのだと思う。

(※サプリメントの効能が疑問な人は以下を読んで調べてみることをお勧めします。

isom-japan.org

統合失調症 本当の理由


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※精神病薬の副作用についての言及に疑問がある方は以下を読んでみることをお勧めします。

心の病の「流行」と精神科治療薬の真実

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さて、高2の後半になり、大学で文系に進むか、理系に進むか決めなければいけなかった。上記の通り、エラくなるためにできるだけ大きな問題に対処したいと思っていた自分にとって、選択肢は3つであった。

政治経済系、教育系、医療系である。経済学が正解を出しているにもかかわらず、政策が愚かなことをしているのを見ると、日本に必要なのは机で理論をつむぐ学者ではなく、社会に手を突っ込む変革者のようであった。そういうわけで、前の二つは特に大学で学ぶ必要がないと感じた。他方、医師になれば、開業後、塾を開いたり、国政に出たり、二足の草鞋を履くことが可能だ。また、自分の冷静な性格や、弱者を助けたいという思いに合っているのは、医者の方である。そう思い、医学部を目指すことにした。

次に決めるべきは志望校であるが、将来、社会に影響したいと思っているからには、偏差値の高い大学に行くべきだと思った。また、高校にいい成績で入ったことで、勉強に身が入れば、そういう大学に行けると思った。その他諸々の理由で、東大を目指した。(これは人によっては大悪手と思うのだろうが、東大を目指さなければ地方に行って今の自分はなかっただろうから、そんなに悪くない決断だと思う。)

 

・再び来る受験と親子の亀裂

そう決めた時点で、目の色を変えて勉強しなければならず、さすがに変わるだろうと思っていたのだが、最後まで変わらなかった。受験勉強に何とも言えない違和感を感じていたのが第一の理由、目的意識の薄い学校生活で生活習慣が狂いまくっていたのが第二の理由である。当時は目的意識が何故持てないのかもわからず、ただただ自分が勉強から逃げている意志薄弱なやつだと思っていた。その罪悪感で、無理してでも生活を充実させないといけないと感じ、さらに夜更かしへと走ることになった。

母も自分の状況に「意志薄弱!」となじってくれた。親は問題が見えた時に正論を声に出し、強硬手段に出るだけであった。夜中まで起きていたら、「さっさと寝なさい」と言い、従わなければ電気を消された。

ある時、同じようなことがあまりにも続くので、母親が自分のPCを奪い、庭に投げて壊したことがあった。高校受験でPSPを壊した時から変わっていないんだなあと思った。ここで同じように仕返しをしても話が前に進まないだろうと思い、大学進学でこの家から逃げ出てやると決断だけして、静かにしていた。

そんなこんなで、現役の受験では当たり前のように落ちた。一浪で受かる気でいたが、現実は甘くなく、再び落ちた。この時点で、精神的にヘロヘロだった。高校生活も訳が分からないまま、睡眠不足の沼に陥り、冴えない3年で終わったのである。受験勉強も心が嫌だと叫ぶのを抑えながら、なんとか机について2年強やってきたのだ。”もう受験はこりごり”だと思って、自分はとりあえず受かった大阪医科大に入学したいと思っていた。そこでワンワン泣いたのが母親である。「せっかく、これまで小学生のころから勉強して、いい大学に行けそうなのだから、もう一年浪人してより偏差値の高い大学へ行ってほしい」ということだった。なんとなく大阪医科大に行くのは違うと感じたので、二浪することにした。二浪が嫌だとくよくよしていた時に母が言ったのは、”現役の時には(私は)二浪すると思っていた”とのことであった。本当にそう思っていたとして、母はそれに対し何かしたか?何もしていない。この言葉の裏にあるのは、「二浪はあなたが自堕落な生活を送った当然の結果で、親としては責任はない」ということだ。ちなみに、ここまで父親は登場していないが、それは彼が父としての役割を真っ当に果たしていたからではなく、仕事と趣味に明け暮れ、一切自分の教育に手を出していなかったからである。

はっきり言って、親は親としての役割を理解していない。(今や、それについて、責めるつもりはない。親も親の事情や弱さがあったのだと思っている。)中学以来、親の自分に対するコミットは”仲のいい友達”ぐらいだと思う。仮に、友達ぐらいの仲良さの他人が中学生の俺を子育てすることになったとして、うちのように経済的な余裕があり、俺の成績がよければ塾代は迷わず出したと思うし、親としての義務感から食事は作ったと思う。そして、俺がめんどくさそうな悩みを抱えていれば、大して相談にも乗らずに、PCを投げて解決しようとしただろう。

より良い成績、より良い大学を目指している集団にとって、浪人しているというのは恥ずべき失敗だった。中でも2浪というのは120万人いる同年代の中で、7000人程しかいないらしい。蛍光灯とプラスチックの机に囲まれ、自責の念に苛まれながら、楽しみの少ない毎日を過ごした。やるべきことが受験勉強の1つしかないのに、一年は想像以上に短く感じた。そして、晴れて慶應に受かったのであった。

 

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From here on, I will write in detail, as these contents will all be contrary to popular opinion.

 


・Doubt the educational system after entering high school

In contrast to the turbulence before the exam, the entrance exam went so well. Now I could enter the school I have been preparing for four years, sacrificing numerous things. I had expected that in a school with a liberal school culture and high standards, there would be no boring classes. These expectations were quickly betrayed. After all, as long as schools are looking ahead to the university entrance exam, the main focus of schools is to teach "according to the textbook" and "according to the curriculum. Most of the classes were boring. I was at fault for not getting enough sleep, but I think there was an overall reason for this, as other students seemed to be bored as well. It was mainly the following. (I am not undermining the teachers who work at the school, but the point is that the school system is problematic.) (*This is a deep topic and will be discussed in detail in another article)

  1. It is unclear how the content of learning relates to students' lives in general.

    I feel that the main goal of Japanese school education system as a whole is to "study academically (≒ go to university)" rather than to "nurutre full-grown people". In elementary school, they teach arithmetic such as "least common multiple", Japanese grammar, and hibernating organisms. I am sure that only a handful of people use these knowledge in real life after growing up.
    On the other hand, items that we are sure to come into contact with in our lives, such as "self-management," "human relations," "memory," "money," and "purpose in life," are not mentioned at all.
    So, the answer to why only these things are learned is probably "because they are the foundation of academic studying. Grammar leads to ancient grammar and linguistics, and hibernation leads to biology. Studying in itself is a good thing, because it deepens our understanding of the world and improves our lives. But in school, these things are not considered much. I believe that all teachers teaches these things only because they are written in the textbooks or because they will be on the entrance exam. A system has been established by the authority of the government, and the education industry and society revolve around it, but when one looks inside the system, nothing exsists there! One proof of this is the fact that many people now go to high school and college, but their education is almost unappreciated, and their purpose is just to obtain a high school or college degree.

  2. The content of learning is not in line with the life of each individual.

    In most schools (other than vocational schools), all subjects are taught evenly in all subjects. Because the government wanted them to teach like that. Entrance examinations also cover all fields of study. Therefore, students are forced to learn things that do not match their interests. I believe where one's interests lie, one also has talents. Talents plays a key in one's life. Learning what one is not interested in is the same as learning what is not relevant to one's life.
    Under the current system, even if one wants to become a seagrass researcher in high school, the university entrance exam does not test the depth of one's knowledge of seagrasses, and one must learn many things unrelated to seagrasses, such as history, chemistry, and ancient texts. It is hard to see how this would be useful for seagrass research. The same can be said for programmers and cooks.

  3. The method of learning is far removed from the original learning process.

    Even if you do study academiclly in school, the current way is bad. Academics and schools are far apart. Studying should be an independent pursuit of the individual interest. The school curriculum does not cater to students' interests. Students have to learn passively. Students don't learn how they should hypothesis and test, which is the fundamentals of science. They do not experience discovery through learning. Students are given questions that already have answers, and are taught superficial answers by teachers. I think this is also because the University entrance exam is set to be their goal. (The more I think about it, the more I wonder why.) I think that the current education system allows students to graduate from school as experts in passing entrance exams, rather than as intellectuals or researchers, even though they are studying something that looks like an academic subject.

 


The current educational system in Japan, as mentioned above, has also been the standard in the world for so long. You may think that it is impossible to change these points. However, there are some ways that already achieve it. One is Christ's discipleship training. The other is Montessori education. When Sota Fujii (prominently competitive Japanese chess prayer) got famous, this "heuristic education method tailored to the individual student" attracted much attention for having developped his talents. Many other famous people, including the founders of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook, have also received this education method.

In the world where T-shaped skills is a key to success, Montessori must be effective in developing individual talents, while the public education system forces students to develop all kinds of academic skills. Almost all Japanese people are wasting a lot of time and talent by this system. I thought Japanese people should have been outraged by the news about the effectiveness of Montessori education. (By the way, there is a culture of exploratory extracurricular activities in Nada as well, and they have achieved a great deal.)

 

However, I could not explain these things when I was in high school. Now I can point the weak point of the system because I have received the discipleship of God. At that time, I just intuitively thought, "Something is not right". I could not bring myself in studying. Other students were studying normally. It was because I remember the joy in the intellectual education, which was more like a homeschool. I thought that the inorganic study in a school could easily be turned into an intellectual education that was full of joy. I thought at the time that the only reason this was not happening was simply because the government lacked vision. These things led to my interest in politics.

 

 

・Interest in Politics after the Great East Japan Earthquake

 


I was 14 years old when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. When I entered high school, nuclear power plants all over Japan remained shut down. On TV, many experts were discussing whether or not to restart nuclear power plants for hours, everyday. But surprisingly, no one was making a clear argument. One side were saying that nuclear power plants should be shut down because accidents like Fukushima might occur in the future again, while the others were saying they should restart the power plants in order to keep electricity costs low. Since these arguments speak from separate perspectives, the debates went nowhere. In the end, the government somehow decided to restart nuclear power plants, and the public somehow accepted that fact.

Apparently, the government seemed to have a reason for restarting power plants. Mass media pointed out that it was due to the collusion of nuclear industry and government. , but that too was not a convincing explanation. The reason is that the government has made policy that removes huge collusion between government and industry like the privatization of Japan Post and the privatization of the Japanese National Railways. How could it be impossible to change the nuclear industry, facing an accident second to Chernobyl?

I was very dissatisfied with the way things were going. There is only one answer to the question of whether or not to reopen the plant. Yet, I felt that the core of the issue was being obscured as the story progressed. The public was oblivious, journalists were unable to cut to the chase, politicians were running for cover, and no one seemed able to address the issue. I felt that these things only came to light by accident due to the nuclear accident, and that there are probably other, deeper problems.

 

At the time, I was thinking if I could deal with bigger problems, I could have more influence and be more successful. So I started looking for other deeper problems in our society. Then I was lucky enough to meet someone online who taught economics. Economics really matched my interest. In fact, good economic policies can prevent people from falling into poverty, and increase their level of happiness. 

 I learned these things below. (*I'll write in detail in another article)

・Japan has been in a recession for 30 years. During a recession, the government should spend money to restore the economy because the people have less money. The Japanese government (especially the Ministry of Finance) is concerned about the national debt and is trying to increase tax revenues by cutting government spending and raising the consumption tax rate. These are both counterproductive because they reduce the people's money.
・The media, under pressure from the Ministry of Finance, is pushing the "national financial collapse" theory, and the "consumption tax should therefore be raised. This is a completely false.
The number of suicides increases as the economy worsens. Japan's recession is increasing the number of suicides.

Economic uncertainty and suicide in the United States - PMC


The key point here is the number of suicides. Bad politics leads to people dying on a large scale. The Japanese government apparently has not been able to do anything about it, despite the fact that economics has the answer to how to do it.

 


・The Conspiracy of Intelligence

 

After that, I did further research and found out the following

 

(1) The U.S. is secretly influencing far more countries than Japanese people realize. The CIA is working for this.

A few months before 9/11, Forein Affairs magazine carried an article about the possibility of terrorism, and a CIA report also mentioned Afghan terrorists. It is highly possible that the U.S. government intentionally missed the terrorist attack.
What Bush Knew Before Sept. 11 - CBS News


It is very likely that all Japanese territorial disputes were created by the CIA. (In the case of Takeshima, it has been revealed that the then South Korean President was connected to the CIA.)
千勝先生が解説!「北方領土問題」は仕組まれていた…!?北方領土侵攻・占拠はもっとも成功した〇〇共同作戦であった!【DIY cafe 林千勝】#092 - YouTube


There is no doubt that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which triggered the Vietnam War, was also a fabrication of the United States.

今、語られるアメリカの真実 第7話 「ベトナム戦争 運命の逆転」vol.1 - ニコニコ動画

Newly Declassified National Security Agency History Questions Early Vietnam War Communications Intelligence

 

The CIA is a secret organization that is naturally involved in conspiracies. It is a solid story that can be proven with a political approach. There is plenty of other evidence to the same effect.

CIA:世界最凶のテロリスト (2020) - YouTube

CIA:戦争とフェイクニュース (1986) - YouTube

An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins | TEDxTraverseCity - YouTube

 


For most people, it is not known that the heart of the US is pursuing its own interests, even at the cost of kicking down other countries and killing large numbers of people. Of the above examples, the territorial issue is an ongoing story, and there were many TV debate programs around 2012 when Japan-China relations were deteriorating. However, none of the speakers addressed the essence of the issue, which is the United States. At the time, I thought this was only because TV was in the grip of the United States.

At any rate, in this way, I satisfied my curiosity of the moment and did what I felt I should do, and as a result, quite naturally, I became a high school student with an unusual worldview.

 

・A friend's schizophrenia and career decision

Time went back again, and when I was 15 years old, a childhood friend of mine became schizophrenic. The cause was that his parents neglected him. At first, it was nothing more than hallucinations and babbling. However, the doctors did not address the mental problems at all, but only prescribed medication. The amount of medication he took steadily increased, at times up to 40 pills a day. By that time, the side effects were clearly visible. He was slurring his words, gaining weight, and unable to hold a normal conversation due to a lack of concentration. Every few hours he would get "so sick that he couldn't move unless he took the pills.

This was a shocking experience for me, as I have a brother with a disability. One day, a friend of mine who was living a normal life and playing with him became a cripple who could not even live a normal life.

Based on my experience with the supplement, I and my mother felt that the medication could only be a temporary aid, but in the long run, it would destroy the body's mechanisms (I wondered if this was not schizophrenia, but a side effect. I thought. I invited him to church to see if we could help him with his mental health issues, but it didn't seem to resonate with him at the time. He was from a neglectful family and his diet was out of control, so we recommended our own supplements as an example. Again, we cannot conclude this, but the fact is that while he was taking the supplement, his medication dosage decreased. However, when he was about to take one more pill, his parents stopped the supplements or something, and he stopped taking them. After that, his medication dose increased again, and when he felt threatened and resumed the supplements, his medication dose decreased. (This process was repeated at least three times). I know this sounds strange, but I believe this is because he didn't really want to get better. He needed his parents' love. And I think in the back of his mind, he was hoping that his parents would turn to him because of his illness.

(If you cannot believe this, I recommend you to read this book.

What Really Causes Schizophrenia: Amazon.co.uk: Foster, Harold D.: 9781412015318: Books

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America - Kindle edition by Whitaker, Robert. Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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Now, in the second half of my senior year, I had to decide whether to pursue a liberal arts or science degree in college. As I mentioned above, I wanted to deal with as big a problem as possible in order to become successful, so I had three choices.

They were political economy, education, and medicine. When I saw that economics was doing the right thing but policy was doing the wrong thing, it seemed to me that what Japan needed was not academics piecing together theories at their desks, but reformers who would put their hands into society. For this reason, I felt that it was not necessary to study the first two subjects in particular at university. On the other hand, if he became a doctor, he could open a private school, run for national office, or work as a two-legged stool. In addition, being a doctor would suit my calm personality and my desire to help the weak. With this in mind, I decided to pursue medical school.

The next decision I had to make was which school to apply to. Since I wanted to have an impact on society in the future, I thought I should go to a university with a high deviation score. I also thought that if I got good grades in high school and put in the effort to study, I would be able to go to such a university. For various other reasons, I aimed to go to the University of Tokyo. (Some people may think this was a very bad decision, but I think it was not so bad because if I had not aimed for Tokyo University, I would have gone to a regional university and would not be where I am today.)

 


・The examinations that would come again and the crack between parent and child

Once I made that decision, I had to change the color of my eyes and study, and I thought it would indeed change, but it did not change until the very end. The first reason was that I felt an indescribable sense of discomfort in studying for the entrance examination, and the second reason was that my lifestyle had gone haywire due to a school life with little sense of purpose. At the time, I didn't even know why I couldn't have a sense of purpose, and I just thought I was a weak-willed person who was running away from my studies. This guilt made me feel that I had to force myself to have a better life, which led me to stay up even later.

My mother also chided me for my situation, saying, "You're weak-willed!" she would taunt me. My parents only voiced their righteous opinions when they saw a problem and took strong-arm measures. If I stayed up late into the night, they would tell me to get to bed, and if I didn't comply, they would turn off the lights.

One time, the same thing went on so long that his mother took his computer and broke it by throwing it in the yard. I thought to myself, "She hasn't changed since she broke my PSP in the high school entrance exam. I knew that getting back at her in the same way here would not move the story forward, so I just made the decision that I would run away from this house for college and kept quiet.

As such, I failed the current entrance exam as a matter of course. I thought I was going to pass the exam after one year, but reality was not so sweet, and I failed again. At this point, I was mentally exhausted. My high school life was also a dull three years, as I fell into a swamp of sleep deprivation, not knowing why. I managed to stay at my desk for a little over two years while suppressing my mind's cries of "I don't want to study for exams." I thought I had had enough of taking entrance exams and wanted to enroll in Osaka Medical College, which I had been accepted to. Then his mother cried. She wanted me to waste another year and go to a university with a higher deviation score, since I had studied hard since I was in elementary school and could go to a good university. Somehow I felt that going to Osaka Medical College was not the right choice for me, so I decided to take a second chance. When I was brooding over my decision, my mother told me, "When I was a student, I thought I was going to do a ninani. If she really thought so, what did she do about it? She did nothing. What is behind this statement is that "the second grade is the natural result of your self-indulgent lifestyle, and as a parent, I am not responsible for it. Incidentally, the father has not appeared in the story so far, not because he was fulfilling his role as a father properly, but because he was busy with his work and hobbies and did not touch his own education at all.

Clearly, the parents do not understand their role as parents. (Now, I don't blame them for that. I believe my parents had their own circumstances and weaknesses.) Since junior high school, I think my parents' commitment to me has been limited to "good friends. If a stranger with the same level of friendship had to raise me as a junior high school student, if they had the same financial resources as my family and if my grades were good, they would have paid for cram school without hesitation, and they would have cooked meals out of a sense of duty as a parent. And if I had had some troublesome problems, they would have tried to solve them by throwing a PC at me, without much consultation.

For a group of people striving for better grades and better colleges, being a ronin was a shameful failure. Of the 1.2 million people born in 1996, only about 7,000 were said to be second-graders. Surrounded by fluorescent lights and plastic desks, I spent my days with little enjoyment, tormented by feelings of remorse. I had only one thing to do, study for the entrance exam, but the year seemed shorter than I had imagined. And then, I was accepted to Keio University.