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田路さん達が頑張って準備した分離派展覧会は無事スタートした。本当によかった。来場者も多い。カタログも良い。

それにしても人生全てを建築の悦びに捧げ、死を期して、世界に向けて自らの建築を問う彼らは未だ20代半ばだったのである。驚嘆する。しかし今の半分の平均寿命の中で彼らは大学とはことを起こす場所だったのかもしれない。その10分の1でも良いから今の学生にも人生を切り開く気概のようなものが芽生えないだろうか？人生100年何もしないでいいはずがない。

The Japanese Secession exhibition that Mr. Taji and his colleagues worked hard to prepare started safely. It is very nice. There are also many visitors. The catalog is also good.
By the way, they were still in their mid-twenties, devoting their entire lives to the joy of architecture, deciding to die, and asking the world about their architecture. Marvel. But in half the life expectancy they are now, university may have been the place to do things. Isn’t it possible for today’s students to have the spirit to open up their lives, even if it’s only one tenth of that? You can’t do anything for 100 years in your life..

近代日本人の自我の欠如を描いた小説家が夏目漱石である。そして往々にしてそれは嘆き節で終わる。しかるに森鴎外は自らの自我に目覚めそれが社会の壁とぶつかり葛藤することもなかった対照的な作家である。山崎正和は『森鴎外闘う家長』でそんな鴎外を書いたと知り急に読んでみたくなった。というのも日本人は未だに自我のない自律しない国民だと感じるからである。自我の欠如を感じない鴎外みたいなのが沢山いたからこうなったのか

Soseki Natsume is a novelist who describes the lack of ego of modern Japanese people. And often it ends with a lamentation. However, Ogai Mori is a contrasting writer who awakens to his own ego and never collides with the walls of society. Masakazu Yamazaki learned that he wrote such Ogai in “Ogai Mori Fighting Patriarch” and I suddenly wanted to read it. This is because I still feel that Japanese are non-autonomous people without ego. Did this happen because there were so many Ogai who didn’t feel the lack of ego?

格差社会に賛成か反対かと学生司会が聞いた。今日のテーマ階級性である。過半数が賛成と答えたのにはちょっと驚いた。年功序列の平等社会よりかは競争の末、格差社会が生まれるのは致し方ないとの判断である。僕も昔はそう思っていたが、もう一歩大局的に見ないと社会はどんどん悪くなる。

The student moderator asked if you agree or disagree with the disparate society. The theme of the day was classism. It was a bit surprising that the majority of the students answered yes to the question. Rather than a society with a hierarchy of seniority and equality, most students seemed to think that a society with disparities is inevitably created through competition. I used to think that way too, but unless we take a look at the bigger picture, the organization will worsen.