The Japanese might be more contextual in their thinking, but that certainly hasn't made them any less heirarchial.

The fact is that nature throws up lots of possibilities and then sorts out what works. Many people don't like this, especially those who don't easily fit or succeed at whatever the current sorting process selects for, but that doesn't change the fact that while potential is nearly infinite, actual is a small fraction of that and the residual a tiny fraction of that.

So now that we are at some stage of equilibrium, one useful tool is to band together many of the dispossessed in solidarity against those previously advantaged.

The flaw in the logic is that same binary good/bad dichotomy is being used and it becomes another race to the bottom, of us versus them.

The reality is that life is emergent and good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. When good is viewed as aspirational, rather than elemental, all the higher order nuance, subjectivity and complexity is suspect.

So if you wish to cast aside whatever progress has been made, because it isn't enough, the longer term consequences might not be to your advantage.

If you want to change the outcomes, look beyond particular wants and need,s to how current culture ignores processes to favor those on top.

For instance, is money a social contract, enabling mass societies, or a commodity to mine from them?

Markets need money to circulate, but people are linear and goal oriented, so it is seen as signal to extract and store.

Since it functions as a contract, storing the asset requires generating debt. Which is the mechanism by which most people are currently enslaved to a parasitic financial medium, as positive feedback draws the asset to the center, while negative feedback pushes the debt to the edges. Sort of like the heart telling the hands and feet they don't need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get.

To get back to the Japanese, the context is the networks, which matter as much as the nodes inhabiting them.

The irony of our individualistic ethos is the resulting atomized society is more easily manipulated by institutional authority and predated on by an unregulated financial system.

There isn't the investment potential to save the amounts required for a stable society, but we save for many of the same reasons, so the concept of the commons will have to be resurrected and updated.

Then the process of selection will revolve more around the relationship between rights and responsibilities. Circuit breakers to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons.

More yin and yang, than God Almighty.