This is a well-known story of Aesop's Fables
: A Country Mouse
Town Mouse
and treated him with local food. Country Mouse served Town Mouse shabby food -such as nuts, wheat-stocks and roots. So Town Mouse got angry and told Country Mouse to come to town so that they can enjoy various delicious foods in town. Country Mouse visited Town Mouse next. Country Mouse was astonished as he saw feast consisted of various foods in the house the Town Mouse lived in. But people and a cat kept on coming in and out, so they had to run away around, and they couldn't enjoy the feast. Country Mouse thought the town was affluent but terrible place, and decided that he would prefer the country even he had only plain food. -Is there an illogical jump if this story was connected with an either-or choice between planned blackouts or resumption of nuclear power plants? After all, they ended up in resuming nuclear power plants evading the criticism from public opinion -I cannot get rid of the impression that planned blackouts due to electric shortage was used as a threat, while there is already highest level of radioactive-polluted zone in this country.
As the government bulldozed the resumption of nuclear power plants, the Prime Minister said that this is the decision on his responsibility
. sekinin" (responsibility) lightly, I myself doubt that if I understand the meaning of the word "sekinin" truly. I've heard thatthe word "responsibility" consists of "response" and "ability": I have to declare that I cannot help doubting "ability of response" of Prime Minister and current Cabinet and governments neglecting survivors of the earthquake disaster and refugees from radioactive-polluted zone, electric power company that decided the resumption of atomic power plants, and other electric power companies trying to seize opportunity to resume atomic power plants...
If I try to mention furthermore, the rest would be the same aslast month. Just let me place that I'm amazed at gap between the public and the government, and once I've wondered if politicians read newspaper
-a childish question, though.
Excuse me for the delay of this month's "serial 10-line essays".