>>36 You're veering into ethics here and I agree with a lot you have to say. The idea of askesis has been severely eroded in modern times. Askesis is also never an individual act because it is always conducted with the help of others and within a moral tradition. NEETs exist in an environment where moral traditions have broken down in the face of consumer capitalism and they are unlikely to seek out others for help anyway.
It seems we're making too many assumptions about NEETs, who are just unemployed people after all. I don't think NEET is a distinct subject position like a class and while there's a subculture built up around it, this NEET subculture is basically soulless consumer nihilism. Otaku NEETs are basically people who believe in the acquisitive principals of Western political economy. They are the ultimate conformists because their supposed rejection of social norms (refusal to work, jerking off all day, watching anime) reinforces the consumer ideology. They are soulless bastards.
You're veering into ethics here and I agree with a lot you have to say. The idea of askesis has been severely eroded in modern times. Askesis is also never an individual act because it is always conducted with the help of others and within a moral tradition. NEETs exist in an environment where moral traditions have broken down in the face of consumer capitalism and they are unlikely to seek out others for help anyway.
It seems we're making too many assumptions about NEETs, who are just unemployed people after all. I don't think NEET is a distinct subject position like a class and while there's a subculture built up around it, this NEET subculture is basically soulless consumer nihilism. Otaku NEETs are basically people who believe in the acquisitive principals of Western political economy. They are the ultimate conformists because their supposed rejection of social norms (refusal to work, jerking off all day, watching anime) reinforces the consumer ideology. They are soulless bastards.