Rome vs Japan

[Magnus]

Well...I think it's a normal phenomenon. Ever see something in life drift towards one side of the scale..then rapidly move back to the other end? Eventually it normals out back to the middle (well balanced), until something else comes along to upset it.

I think because of the mixture of conservatism, nationalism and somewhat cultural isolationism (due to their superiority complex), Japan has now gone the complete opposite. But yeah, it's wonky, to be sure. Which is too bad...hopefully things will calm down a bit. But they're really addicted to their pop culture and techno stuff...