弱肉強食 (jakuniku kyōshoku)
Is Leben really a Kampf? Should we cull out the low-earners annually? Who will eat the strongest once they are too fat?
The proverbial “survival of the fittest”, the Neo-Liberal rallying cry meant to justify every minor and major dastardly policy, in Japanese sounds even juicier: “The weak are the meat for the strong”. That said, it’s no match for my Dad’s laconic French, ‘in life you either fuck or get fucked’.
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The proverbial “survival of the fittest”, the Neo-Liberal rallying cry meant to justify every minor and major dastardly policy, in Japanese sounds even juicier: “The weak are the meat for the strong”. That said, it’s no match for my Dad’s laconic French, ‘in life you either fuck or get fucked’.
More articles like this: 四字熟語- ancient wisdom in four-letter maxims
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