Takuji Mamiya

“Mark my words, all ye who quiver in fear. All life shall end on the 20th! That is the absolute truth! Both Shiroyama and Takashima died for this truth! Death, that is the message of prophecy! Death, that is the absolute truth! Why is death the message that leads to prophecy? Because the foolish attempt to conceal death! So we must speak of that which is concealed! That which conceals death! The first is education! The second is the media! In countries such as this, mandatory education has become commonplace. In our society, the media has swelled and transformed into the highest authority in the world! We have a host of taboos implanted into our minds by public education through the mass media. The greatest taboo of all is to think upon death! We have put aside any thought of death! We are obliged to act as if our daily lives will continue for eternity. And the reason is because everything is powerless, everything is meaningless before the unreasoning specter of death! That is why education and the media try to disguise the true meaning of death! The death they intimate to us is but a phantasm on the far shores, something with which we have no relation. It has been reduced to a mere toy, something you can enjoy without worrying that it may ever strike you. But the reality that everyone knows is that every single day, death creeps ever clooser to all the people on the planet. Death is reality itself. Am I wrong? To ponder upon death... Has religion not advanced thought on mortality for the past several thousand years? Has metaphysics not?“