For example: if you wish to teach bears to dance, you place them upon a platform so hot that they cannot bear to leave a foot on it for more than a moment, and meanwhile you play "Rule Britannia" on the orchestra. After a time "Rule Britannia" alone will make them dance. Our intellectual life, even in its highest flights, is based upon this principle.
Source： Bertrand Russell: Mind and Matter (1950?)
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The Osaka Expo has begun. According to former Osaka Governor Ichiro Matsui, the idea for the Expo originated at a year-end party in 2015 held to thank Toru Hashimoto upon his retirement from politics, attended by then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. Matsui recalls that it was during this gathering that he first proposed the idea of hosting the Expo in Osaka to Abe.
While the Expo itself is something many people can enjoy, it is difficult to wholeheartedly celebrate it due to suspicions that casino interests lie behind the project. If the site of the 1970 Osaka Expo, now Expo'70 Commemorative Park, had been redeveloped and reused, it would not have been necessary to spend the enormous sum of approximately 300 billion yen, including related expenses.
There is widespread speculation as to why the venue had to be built on a landfill with weak ground, essentially a former garbage dump. One such rumor suggests that since a railway extension was needed to reach the planned casino site, Matsui thought it would be unacceptable to do so explicitly for a casino, but if the extension was presented as being for access to the Expo site, no one would oppose it.
Whenever a major national project like this takes place, it is almost inevitable that many individuals will gather in hopes of securing vested interests, with bribery often involved. Just like the Moritomo Gakuen scandal, will the full truth ever come to light?
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