Thursday, May 23, 2013

Signs of the Apocalypse #5

The #1 story on "Google News Japan - Politics" right now is...

....the latest updates on the white hot electoral race for the post of leader (sosai) of...

...AKB48.

Here is the screen grab. Click on the image if you want to see the evidence of our decadence in greater detail:



OK, so it is politics...of a sort.

Still, I cannot shake the sense of our species having hit rock bottom.

Bring on the rule of the machines! They purport to know what we really want!

2 comments:

kamo said...

If you'll forgive the shameless self promotion, this is merely grist to the mill of my own pet theory that AKB are actually intended as a pointed and blistering satire on the entire Japanese body politic.

I'm entirely serious - http://fightstart.blogspot.jp/2012/11/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds.html

Vernell said...

This is cool!