Toyama Koichi's Tweet Collection 2022


January	12	Keeping with accuracy in mind, I have expressed the COVID-19 not "just a cold," but "something a little worse than a common cold", from the beginning. but if most people had pushed through with the "just a cold" line and kept calm, we would have long since returned to our daily routines. [The number of deaths in Japan of the COVID-19 is about 20,000 at the point, about two years after the beginning of the outbreak. For reference, the average annual death toll of ordinary influenza in Japan is about 10,000.]
	14	It is strange that I, a fascist, should say such a thing (in fact, only a fascism is the "ideology of the strong" that can resist totalitarianism), but the percentage of people wearing masks seems to indicate the rate of realization of totalitarianism. In most countries, the rate might be 70 to 80%. In Japan, it is about 99.9%? The overwhelming increase compared to the early days of the outbreak is the result of increasing totalitarianism, not quarantine awareness.
	14	I feel that the "invisible dictatorship" that Bakunin, the master of anarchism, aimed for means "govern but do not reign". Rather, it seems to be more bad....
	15	Even if I try to reason with them, they will not understand, and in the first place, they probably don't have ears to hear me. I've been getting tedious, we should spread some feudalistic moral without reason, such as "who is a man doesn't wear a mask" or "who is a samurai doesn't wear mask".
		While I was shopping at the supermarket, wearing no mask as who is a man should, a girl in the early years of elementary school nearby ran away from me with great speed, ran to her parents who were a little distance away, pointed at me and said something. Her very effeminate behavior made me think, "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman".
		As a full-fledged man, I naturally went shopping at the supermarket without a mask, and as I was leaving the store, I passed a group of three boys, one of whom was without a mask, and I thought to myself, "I guess It might be too early to despair". However, before long, he stopped, took a mask out of his pocket, put it on, and went into the store. Men worthy to be called the man has been fewer.
		I don't wear a mask and don't vaccinate because I am not afraid of a "little bit of a bad cold" like COVID-19 and because I am a proper fascist who opposes totalitarianism that prioritizes the value of health. There may be a conspiracy to "capitalize" on the scare to complete the IT surveillance society, but I don't believe that such a conspiracy was planned from the beginning.
		I sometimes receive abuse from some people, who say, "Get infected with COVID-19 and die quickly!" However, in fact, I was infected with the disease very early after the outbreak, and since I did not want to be forcibly hospitalized, I just lay down for about 10 days and let the disease heal itself. Well, it seems that immunity is not reliable as well, but it depends on luck, and in the first place, only a handful of people get seriously ill.
		I was secretly infected, told no one about it in that time, of course did not go to the hospital (because the doctors must inform the authorities if I went there), and had to take a rest in secret and wait for the natural healing process. In this era, we are obliged to fight against diseases as if it were an illegal underground activity just because of a mere COVID-19.
		While I caught the COVID-19, I basically spent my time in bed, but due to the responsibility of having encouraged people to send their viru..."feelings" to former Prime Minister Aso and others, I had no choice but to attend the gatherings I had promised to participate in, with a nonchalant face (wearing no mask, of course). As for the timing of my infection, since I would lose so many friends, I will remain silent forever!
		I remember that on the second day of the Political Education Camp a few times ago, one of the students went to the hospital with a fever, and came back with a diagnosis of "not COVID-19". The student spent most of the first half of the camp in bed, but because the camp was in a small house, the infection exploded, and the other students came down one after another with what was truly "just a common cold".
	19	It is easy to end the COVID-19 panic, I have said from the beginning, by isolating the elderly and those with underlying diseases (if they wish) at taxpayer expense in a scenic rural resort for a while, and then infecting the healthy people of middle age and younger, who are hardly going to die anyway, in an explosion of infection to achieve mass immunity. You should just let me to be the dictator!
	20	Any analysis of this situation over the past two years or so is a kind of demagoguery, except from the point of view of why the whole world was caught up in such a unimportant level's "slightly bad virus". In other words, there will be a great deal of false history written about this period in the future, and unless there is a revolution to overthrow the bio-power, it will not be corrected even 100 years from now.
		However, such things happened first with the Aum Incident in 1995, and a false analysis of the situation was promulgated and has not been corrected at all to the present day. There is no other historical description that is not false history by a writer who has remained sane since then, except for "After the Zenkyoto Movement".
		Well, to begin with, almost all contemporary historical descriptions are false as long as fascism continues to be regarded as "absolute evil".
		Only such stubborn people who still have never worn a mask will be able to write a history that is not false in the future.
	21	[A casual but meaningful note:] Revolution is to make the people take responsibility for their own actions.
	22	Now is the time for revolutionaries to act. Now is the time for revolutionaries to act. It is not often that that we find ourselves in a situation where "we" are "the only force" that can assure the right people, by saying "You are right". The "right people", i.e., are those who refuse to wear masks or vaccines, or those who feel antagonistic about the imposition of masks and vaccines even if they cannot go that far.
	22	Of course, "we" revolutionaries cannot win in the current relations of power, but we can capitalize on such a too convenient situation to extend our support. In a revolutionary movement, victory is the last thing to be achieved, and before that, we have to do such things steadily.
	30	A friend of mine who ran for city council four years ago (he used to be one of most frequent customers of "BAR Radical") told me he was running again, so I went to help him put up posters, but this time it was for mayor, not city council, and I was surprised.
February	2	The other day, a friend of mine, Mr. K, suddenly ran for mayor of a certain city, and although he got a surprising result of over 20% of the votes, his claims during the election campaign (including the COVID-19 issue) were generally mediocre. I wondered what he meant, but then I heard that the mayor, who was supposed to be reelected without a vote, was dragged out of the campaign in vain, and as a result contracted COVID-19. Oh, it was such a kind of conspiracy!
	2	Since he got more than 20% of the votes, he has easily cleared the line to get his deposit money back. ...... "Oh, what if!?", I looked into the situation, but it seems that even if "something" happens to the mayor, the runner-up will not be moved up.
	3	"Hannibal" is a truly great film. We are unanimous in the Fascist Party that this is the ultimate "movie about love".
	5	I have liked Ishihara Shintaro a lot since my days as a "heretical far-left activist". Well, I guess I was relegated to the heretical side because of such a sense.
	5	Last night, I met with a theatrical activist, a Toyama Prize winner, in Kumamoto. We agreed that we should say at every opportunity mediocre things like, "it is irresponsible to only criticize and not offer counter-proposals!" Of course, both he, a ruthless communist, and I, a fascist, have a "counter-proposal" of "establishing a revolutionary government and throwing counter-revolutionaries into the gulag".
	12	A man strongly recommended a film "Dead Poets Society", but I had neglected it for more than 30 years since then. Although I was very much indebted to him at the time, his cultural sense was not at all trustworthy. This time, I tried my best to watch it, thinking, well, it was a winner of the Academy Award for screenwriting. ...... It was just as I had imagined.
	12	I say this while putting aside my position as a great teacher of all mankind, but as a supporter of the "1968 Revolution," I thoroughly reject stories that extol the virtues of a "good teacher". It is not so different from "My Fair Lady," which I saw the other day, merely different in its stance, conservative or liberal, and the fact that it was made in a newer era makes it even worse.
	13	The 19th the "Political Education Camp" has begun! This time we have a total of 11 participants: 2 from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Science, Nagoya University Of Arts, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Sangyo University, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, and 3 from Osaka University. The number of participants, notwithstanding the regional bias, is about the appropriate size for this camp, and the 15 or 16 participants of the last few times was rather extraordinary.
	13	The 19th Political Education Camp started today, and as some maniac fans have been waiting for, the first day's customary "Knowledge Level Check Contest" was held to plunge all the adults into deep despair. Of the 11 participating students, 0 knew Sakai Toshihiko. and Ueda Koichiro 0, Tomura Issaku 0, Morita Masakatsu 2, Honda Katsuichi 2, Nancy Seki 1, Sawaragi Noi 0, Ota Ryu 0, Togawa Jun 5, Saiko Mankichi 0, Miyazawa Akio 1, Shiomi Takaya 0, Gondo Seikyo 0, Hamada Koichi 3, Fujioka Nobukatsu 0, Miyatake Gaikotsu 1, Janis Joplin 3, Isadora Duncan 0, Jack Kerouac 0, Liu Shaoqi 6(!?). ....... "Ah, that's why youths these days are!", If you are lamenting, please make a donation to my account at Fukuoka Bank for re-educating these youths, and I will somehow solve the problem during 10 days.
	27	A great remark by a Toyama Prize-winning theater artist in Kumamoto the night before last. "Such petty logic may be able to mislead the New Left, but it won't work on the Old Left!" He had originally been a New Leftist, but after the Trump's sensation and COVID-19 panic, he became disillusioned with (in the broad sense of) the New Leftist, and after almost leaning to the right, It seems that he started advocating the "Old Left".
		I was furious at the arrogance of the Fukuoka Prefectural Police in not allowing those not wearing a mask to enter the license center (i.e., not renewing my driver's license), and was determined to declare war on them, but the enemy suddenly softened their stance and notified me that they would have several officers surround me to separate me from other visitors to complete the procedures, and I was able to renew my license without bloodshed a while ago.
		This time, I couldn't even use the renewal postponement measure for the "weak people" who can't go outside because they are afraid of the virus," since it's come to this, I was going to start the struggle by driving without a license from the day after tomorrow on 3/1, get arrested, and make a big issue of "I told them repeatedly that I wanted to renew my license, but the police unfairly didn't let me renew it". ...... I feel like I've won the game and lost the match.
	28	It is true that I am an "annoying old man". But what sets me apart from my falsely similar comrades, who are often singled out on the Internet and in the media, is that even in the midst of a struggle, I never lose my gentle attitude from beginning to end.
		I have so far won the struggles rather frequently as a "annoying old man" who never loses the gentle attitude from beginning to end.
		By the way, I have to file my tax return soon. They didn't say anything about my not wearing a mask the year before last, and I forgot to do it last year, so I will have to file two years' worth this time. I don't think they would say that national pirates who don't wear masks don't have to pay taxes. How can they behave so selfish?
		Of course I would never pay any taxes, I would just go and get back all the money that was taken from me through withholding.
March	4	The 20th Political Education Camp has begun! This time, we had a large capacity shortage and the breakdown of participants is unusual: six students are from Tohoku University, Musashino Art University, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo College of Music, Aichi University, and Kyushu University. Although financial resources may not be as tight as usual, we would appreciate a modest donation.
		Among the 6 students participating in the 20th Political Education Camp, who knew Uno Kozo is 0, Arahata Kanson 1, Kasahara Kazuo 0, Asaba Michiaki 1, Chihana Shoichi 0, Sugano Tamotsu 2, Takenaka Ro 0, Ito Ritsu 0, Shimizu Ikutaro 0, Mayuzumi Toshiro 2, Mukai Takashi 0, Ogura Chikako 0, Kawaguchi Daisaburo 0, Chikushi Tetsuya 0, Mikami Kan 0, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4, Andy Warhol 5, Guy Debord 0, Bob Marley 2. "That' s why youths these days are ... Re-education is in order!", you adults ground your teeth with tears, please donate to my account at the Bank of Fukuoka for the re-education fund, and I will do something about it during 10 days on your behalf. [Mukai Takashi is a well-known Japanese anarchist.]
		Since there were two music majors, I put "Mayuzumi Toshiro" on the list, and as expected, they both knew the name.
		In lectures at the Camp, I always mention "Chikushi Tetsuya", but really, almost none of today's students know who he is. This is the reality, you in the over 30s age and older!
	19	Another Political Education Camp has begun (the 21st). This time, a total of 10 students from Chiba University, The University of Tokyo, Toho University, Tokai University, Jissen Women's University (graduate), Kyoto University (2), Kyoto City University of Arts, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, and University of Nagasaki, participate.
		The ("before use"-like) knowledge level check as is customary on the first day of the camp. Among the 8 participating students excluding late arrivals, 1 knew Takita Osamu. And Agata Morio 0, Matsushita Ryuichi 0, Kurimoto Shinichiro 1, Goto Ben 0, Yamaoka Kyoichi 0, Aoshima Yukio 2, Toyama Mitsuru 2, Shimizu Takeo 1, Kurahara Korehito 0, Sakurai Makoto 7, Nanba Daisuke 0, Tanaka Seigen 0, Akiyama Yutokutaishi 1, Uesugi Shinkichi 0, Shima Shigeo 0, Truman Capote 2, Bertolt Brecht 3, Woody Allen 2, Jerry Rubin 0. ...... Donate to my account to help transform these ignorant bottom-feeding students into "Bachelors of the highest education, indeed" with just 10 days. [Takemoto Nobuhiro, a.k.a. Takita Osamu, is a well-known Japanese new-left activist and was one of the key figures of the Zenkyoto movement at Kyoto University in 1969.] [Shima Shigeo is the leader of the Communist League, the representative new leftist organization in Japan.]
		The camp is attended by students majoring in various fields, including graduate students, and some of them have much more knowledge in certain fields than I, a "master of learning by ear" do. This time, there is a graduate student who specializes in "Derrida," which makes it very difficult for me to work, especially in the area of philosophy.
April	1	I have contributed (again) some snide remarks about feminism to a certain magazine, but what I intend to say is that being a follower of feminism, Marxism, or any other "ism" (including, of course, fascism) is a billion times worse than killing someone (or even than sexual harassment, of course), and at least be aware of that evil.
		It would also have a problem with to reaction to above tweet with "Yes, yes, yes!" in a spinal reflexive way. If you don't reflect on whether or not you also fall in some kind of "ism", you are not much different from them feminists. The path of evil should be pursued correctly.
		I have a favorable, if not supportive, view of early feminism, i.e., women's lib.
		In the case of the Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, I simply responded to the exhibition plan proposed by the curator by saying, "Please do as you want", and I didn't do anything in particular this time. I am now in a stage of "there' s no need for swords in kendo [sword way]". [A report detailing how Toyama's work was removed from the exhibition plan for last year's art exhibition at the museum was released by the museum itself the day before this tweet.]
	4	During an interview by a newspaper, I said, "Well..., who is the current governor of Tokyo?" It was OK, because my position is that I am not interested in congressional politics, but "The man who did that mural is ...... yes, yes, Banksy!" was a little serious, and I thought inwardly that I might have begun to blur. However, my position is that I am not interested also in art, so I guess it's OK.
	9	Last night a Toyama Prize-winning theatrical artist exclaimed. 'Hey guys, you supposedly valued life over freedom during the COVID-19 panic, and now you seem to be moved by the Ukrainians who are willing to lay down their lives for freedom, oh, which side are you on!"
	9	[My most favorite phrase from the text I contributed to the latest issue of the magazine "Situation"] : Sexual harassment, for example, is of course wrong, but it is far worse to fall for such things as feminism, so you should have confidence in yourself at this point. Even bad people have the right and duty to fight against worse people.
	10	I was grinning as I wrote the manuscript, when I came up with the idea of calling "muselmann" those (former) university faculty members in the humanities who were accused of sexual harassment and other problems and were "cancelled" without putting up much of a fight.
		"In order to keep distracting themselves from the truth that 'everyone is a wolf to everyone else', wolves in modern society are obliged to live wearing sheepskins at all times, and they monitor each other's behavior in fulfillment of this obligation...”. While writing this sentence, I was also excited when I came up with the idea of calling the masks "sheepskins".
		[Another great phrase in the article] : The culture of political correctness was also first started by school honors students spreading it within the academic sphere. In other words, it is a movement started by opportunists who were new-leftists but never dropped out of the school system until the end. What they say is of new-left, but what they do is bullying (one of school culture), which is what political correctness is.
		I'm lucky that I dropped out early, because I can say flatly to university faculty members who are in the political correctness camp, "You should quit school first before you start talking such like new-leftists ideas!" Well, maybe the incompetent college teachers these days don't even know that political correctness originated from the new-left, or they don't have any doubts about the school system, because of incompetence.
		I am preparing to file my tax return to recoup all withholding taxes. I fought with my driver's license renewal just a while ago, so this time I will file online, but I recommend all you high taxpayers to fight, by going to the tax office and saying, "You mean those who don't wear a mask don't have to pay taxes? I want to pay my taxes!"
		[Another great phrase in the article] : Intellectuals may be critically "commenting" on mask-totalitarianism, but do they think that the concrete fight should be done by someone else who has heard their respectable opinions? If they are just talking and not fighting, they should at least express their support for those crazy conspiracy theorists who are actually fighting.
		[Another great phrase in the article] : As the senior Lenin straightly said, there is no revolution as an extension of the spontaneity of the mass movement, and it is natural that the spontaneous anti-political-correctness movement of the "J-Anon" is, for the time being, unbearably miserable to watch, and it must be the role of the revolutionary intellectuals to inject a correct ideology into it "externally".
	11	It is quite right that Zemmour is the "French version of Toyama Koichi", but to think that they are abnormal and we are normal is arrogant, or optimistic, or ignorant, or stupid, or just very Japanese. Or, that's why Japan is like this, no matter how much time passes.
	14	If I wore a mask, others would look at me and think, "You slave!" So, I can't bring myself to wear a mask. Since I myself, when I see people wearing masks, think to myself, "You slave!", it is never a delusion.
	17	As the political correctness activists are annoyed with the term "cancel culture" itself, I have long been annoyed with the term "backlash". I have explained to students in almost every time of the Political Education Camps, "They always try to block any criticism of them that might naturally come up, by creating such labels in advance".
	22	I see Stalinism as a phenomenon in which the "good manners" of school honor students run amok, and the recent political correctness as a typical example of this phenomenon.
	22	You might say back, then, that it is fascism for the inferior fools who are not good at studying to run amok, but it is not so. Fascism is the petit-bourgeois intellectuals' attempt to agitate and at the same time lead for good the lumpen proletariat running amok.
	23	I am shocked to find that the publication dates of the various books I have checked on Amazon are usually false, which I have been inserting into the timeline of my own personal reference book. ......I have to redo all!
		It is still better to use the date of arrival at Amazon instead of the date written in the book. What is worse, for example, an old book published in May 1986 is given as 86/5/1, which makes a big difference between publishing at the beginning of the month and at the end of the month when you want to consider the relationship between various events. What is the worst, if it was published in 1986, it is dated 86/1/1. This is why these culture-destroying neo-liberal corporations are!
		And Wikipedia is (of course!) also unreliable. Even very major novels by very major authors such as Murakami Haruki have slightly off publication dates when I checked the publisher's website. I thought it might be so anyway, and checked on Amazon, just as expected, it matched perfectly with Wikipedia's.
		When it comes to Shimada Masahiko, the list of his works on his official website shows publication dates copied and pasted from Amazon (probably about all of his books), and even the famous and highly acclaimed his debut novel is dated January of 1983 which is misinformation shared with Amazon, instead of the true date of August. I don't think such authors should be trusted.
	24	As a fundamental objection to feminism, I suspect that most men's lives begin with years of oppression by their "mothers", women. Of course, daughters are also oppressed by their mothers to some extent, but it is the sons who are more likely to be subjected to decisive trauma.
		Feminists know this fact to a certain extent, too, which is why they often call out men they consider enemies for their "mother complex". Most men have some awareness of this, so they are more or less depressed when their "mother complex" are pointed out. This means that the feminists know and say it on purpose. Cowards!
		In my case, however, I was enlightened in prison, and I have finally conquered also my "mother complex", therefore, I am not hurt a bit being called such by the feminists.
		I mean, it is fundamentally wrong to say that women are unilaterally oppressed by men. I am not trying to pretend to be a victim from a man's position, but I am saying to feminists, don't pretend to be a one-sided victim while ignoring the fundamental point (which they know to a certain extent).
		It's not like either side is unilaterally oppressing the other, so my position is that it's fine to say to each other, "That's why men are!" or "That's why women are!", as mere consolation or stress reduction, while knowing that it is useless to say.
	25	I am reading "In an Era Without History" by Yonaha Jun, which I somehow (since I was thrilled and felt "that's exactly what I think!" as a Sinocentrist when I read "Millennial Sinicization") acquired at a used bookstore. I had thought that Azuma Hiroki was the only person besides myself who advocated a politically correct, non-conspiracy theory of anti-"COVID-19 panic" theory, and I was surprised to find out that he was also one! and excited again.
May	6	I have been saying for more than 20 years (without wavering!) that what is happening in Japan is not a shift to the right but a shift to the left (left-wing totalitarianism). The reason why the percentage of people wearing masks has not decreased is also the same as the true meaning of the phrase "applause will not cease" that frequently appears in the proceedings of the USSR's party congress during the leader's speech, is "If one stops it first, he could be regarded as a national traitor of anti-establishment".