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I didn't know Kafka was Japanese...

submitted by SFOGuy

7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago

I'm not sure how to classify this. Is this just the only two people the reporter managed to find who live like this? Is this a social phenomena of a deeply conformist culture unable to handle these human beings? Is this a psychiatric phenomena (to be an amateur psychologist---the first guy seems like he might on the autistic spectrum a touch; the lady seems like she has a bit of post traumatic stress disorder and attachment disorder from a bad family situation)

But they way they are surviving alone but not happy seems really sad.
The non-exactly-the-same American analogue exists, I'm sure.

But for me, this was a unique take on the total sense of aloneness of being while surrounded, literally, by others. Which I think I remember is existentialist.

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Where do they wash?

I think you may be making some assumption there.

Where do they wash?

ant

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Ha, I should do that too.

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She seems to be working at a massage parlor ---they would have showers. Him? I have no idea.

Where do they wash?

mrsmiter says...

I feel like this is the equivalent of people who live in their car in America. People who's work is enough to feed them but not to house them. I live in the heart of Silicon valley when I go out at night I inevitably see car after car with someone sleeping in it, and the back seat filled with what I can only imagine is their only earthly possessions.

There are so many people living like this even in one of the richest places in the US, I can only imagine what it's like in areas with a lower concentration of wealth.

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