To fully understand the actions of Oshio Heihachiro, it must be understood that they are dictated by an anti-revolutionary character and will. Nothing in the attitude of Oshio Heihachiro wishes to question the established order. Oshio Heichachiro knows the system can be improved, but also functional. What makes the system less efficient has more to do with people than with the system itself.
Oshio's anger is directed at men, at whatever corrupts the system.
Letting people believe that a worm in the fruit is the cause of all evil is the philosophy that has always accompanied our revolutions. Who wants to drown his dog accuses him of rabies...
There is a Western arrogance that believes man is infallible. This Western arrogance has been and continues to be the essence of its anti-traditional character; and provides ever-soft ground for the will behind the egalitarian society.
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