I worked late today. This morning, I went to the library to borrow two of Hannah Arendt's books. Then, I found an interesting Daisuke Suzuki book, "My Father Who Once Became Alt-right [鈴木大介『ネット右翼になった父』]". So I decided to read it. After that, at AEON, I started reading Suzuki's book and soon found it certainly knocked my soul firmly.
I like this Suzuki's very heartful and honest book. According to this one, the author Suzuki found that once his father had been soaked into various Alt-right ideologies, Suzuki couldn't face that fact even though the father had passed away. However, writing this book, he tried to tell what had happened to the father and who had been himself as a person. The author is trying to make a certain partnership again with his father, even though their points of view can be separated so far from each other.
I've become a fan of him because he has a strong, brave, and truly inclusive mind in himself. He hasn't denied his father even though the father had the opposite type of opinion. Therefore, this book has two aspects. One is this author's very personal "grief work" as various authors had done in their careers (I remember Paul Auster), and another is a trial of suggesting actual advice to this world.
After enjoying this book, I saw Twitter's timeline for a while. There, I tend to find that there are still various online struggles/conflicts going on terribly, by users who might have been haunted by a strong, fanatic (maybe distorted) cognitive bias. How can we rebuild our partnership beyond various discords in our relationship?
Remembering my past experiences... Now, I accept that I am still staring at the LEFTIST side of political issues. However, even though my opinions can get synchronized with many LIBERAL people, I would reject/deny them if their attitudes could be so fanatic. As an equal human being, I want to treat each one's life history as preciously as I can, and also try to appreciate their dignity. Yes, you may say I'm a silly daydreamer, though.
