But in the new global environment what happens there has a way of affecting what happens here, and the Japanese have created something that does not bode well. One of the biggest rock stars in Japan today is named Kyoko. Kyoko is not just any kid. It was bound to happen, I suppose. Even leaving aside cyber-pornography, a world of virtual idols lies in the near future.
Kids respond on the 'Net confiding their secrets and asking advice about love problems.
So compared with all this, it may be that America, for all its flaws, remains a relative haven for the moment, by world standards. We may be rapidly tearing up our social fabric and blackmailing one another with multiculturalism, but it may all be as nothing compared with the very near future.