"Is Paris Burning?"

A documentary program titled as "The 20th Century on Film" has been on the air from NHK from 1995 to 1996. It was without any unnecessary direction but in matter of fact style. That style rather impressed us. The first half of the century was a time of war. It has shown millions of people hurt, killed and starved in the war. 

The year 1995 was when I started own practice at a place unfamiliar to me. I made a big debt to a bank for that. For the coming several years, I have worked hard literally without taking a day off throughout a year. Around that time, I was annoyed by malaise such as low grade fever, which later turned out to be male menopause. With the debt and responsibility for work burdened on my shoulders in addition to that unspecified malaise, I have struggled at work. 

It was a few years since the bubble economy had ruptured. Our country was going into deflation, which later lead to the debt monetization by Abe administration. It has piled up an astronomical amount of national debt which could not be easily refunded. Neoliberal economy together with the monetization has caused a big economical disparity among the people, most of them going into poor. It was the time when this economical derangement started.  

Personally, the only good thing we had during the time was that we could live together with my parents. Hopefully, it has been one of the happiest terms in their lives surrounded by us and their grandchildren. It has not lasted too long, though. Father has died in 2004 while mother has in 2011. 

The theme music of the program titled as "Is Paris Burning?" after a renowned film of liberation of Paris in WWII is so poignantly dramatic. Whenever listening to this piece, I remember myself absent-mindedly watching the program on TV as well as what has occured with me and the society around that time. How would this time be recalled by another program "The 21st Century on the Film" in the end of this century? Hopefully, less conflicts and less injustice in the world, even if not completely in justice.