As Yozo’s ordeals are based on Dazai’s own life experiences, yet not exact word for word reproductions. No Longer Human is often referred to as Dazai’s “sucide note”. This is the life of Oba Yozo, Dazai’s proxy for his own struggles. A life haunted by depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, lack of purpose, unrelenting lust, and a massive inferiority complex. Someone who never believed that their eternally questioning of the human being, was an escape to flee their ugly reality. When in reality, they are simply the byproduct of mental illness, social anxiety, and a suicidal mind. They consider themselves an enigma, someone born into the flesh of a homosapien, yet with the mind of an alien. Someone who believes that due to their lack of empathy, lack of morality, lack of personality, and lack of basic understanding of human culture. Someone who masquerades their entire identity, in an effort to study people like a sociopath. Such a divisive topic among us, yet at the end of the day your take on morality is a key part of what makes someone human.īut what happens when someone, even when raised in a very traditionally strict dedicated culture, never develops a sense of morality? When they see peers as creatures, completely unable to comprehend their ideals, motives, and emotions. Morality is a grey muddy pond, tainted by the thousands of different perspectives cultures and individuals themselves view morality. However, the more you look into the nuances of a culture, each culture has a different take for what they view is right and wrong. More so, what does it mean to universally be a good human being? Although at first, there are certain universal acts that are seen as inherently evil such as murder, petty theft, torture. How do you universally measure morality regardless of cultural difference?
So that leaves me with a burning question.
Especially if that individual was raised in a different culture entirely. Culture generally tends to come and go, remaining inconsistent due to reformation, changed ideals, or flat out abandoned.Īs a result, it’s hard to analyze an individual’s morality solely upon cultural values or embedded societal beliefs. What does it mean to be human? For centuries humans have forged societies and cultures out of the efforts for exploration, pride, and greed.
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