Husband: You shouldn't go because you don't know nothing of the world. (I, householder, am going.) Wife: You shouldn't go because you're a cog in society. (I'm

a couple

From the editor's postscript of "J.I. NEWS" No. 54, edited by group "Conception Japan," which works on experiments and management of public "deliberation." It seems that there was such a conversation between the couple when a request for participation in a community-based conference over nuclear power plants came to the wife. Enthusiasm to take on local issues as "my things" without entrusting them to the administration or experts is very good. Well, I want to know what happened to this couple after that.

"June 14  2019

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun"