フェイスブック友だちが日本語しか理解しない日本人とは話がかみ合わないということを書いていたが、彼が指摘する通り、万人が知るべき重要な情報はどんどん英語に集約されている一方、日本語で拡散される情報は内容が乏しく不正確で、無為に感情的なものばかりになってしまった。世界2位の経済大国からアジア最貧国への道をひた走る我が島国はこうした情報鎖国状態に置かれて国民がまともな判断力を失っているように見え、今後さらに凋落に拍車がかかるだろう。しかし自らのスポンサーに利益を誘導することで政権を維持している為政者にとって国民を容易に洗脳できる状況はこの上なく好都合で、今やアジア一英語力が低い日本国民の英語教育を強化する動機づけはないだろう。
A Facebook friend of mine wrote that he has a hard time communicating with Japanese people who only understand Japanese. As he pointed out, important information that everyone should know is increasingly concentrated in English, while information disseminated in Japanese has become inaccurate, lacking in content, and emotionally charged for no good reason. Our island nation, which keeps going downhill from the world's second largest economy to the poorest in Asia, seems to have lost the ability to make sound judgments due to this state of information isolation, and its decline will be further accelerated in the future. However, the politicians, who are in power by steering profits to their sponsors, would find it extremely convenient to be able to brainwash the people easily, and there would be no incentive to strengthen English education for the Japanese people, whose English proficiency is now the lowest in Asia.
