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Vol.85
Telephone Game |
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Apr.02,2025 |
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In my opinion, Japanese civilization can largely be categorized into the following three period groups:
(1) From the Heian period, when culture flourished, to the Edo period
(2) From the Meiji period, when Japan was Westernized, to the Showa period, when Japan was Americanized after World War II
(3) From the Heisei period to the Reiwa period, or the current digital age
When I was thinking about the above period categorization based on personal bias and prejudice, an idea occurred to me—What if teams of people from different periods play the telephone game?
Participating teams are from the following three periods: the hunting era, where no written language existed, the Edo period, which was said to have one of the world's highest literacy rates, and the current digital age.
I guess that the game results would be as follows:
1. Hunting era team
This team is likely to easily win the game because spoken language was the only communication method at that time.
2. Edo period team
In this period, both spoken and written language was valued.
3. Digital age team
This team would be by far the worst, probably two laps behind the Edo period team.
What are your predictions?
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