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A cleaner, safer, and more polite society. But why do we feel increasingly anxious, exhausted, and excluded? The book we will read together today is The Discomfort of a Pleasant Society by psychiatrist Toru Kumashiro. In an era where order, cleanliness, efficiency, and normality have become virtues, this book sharply questions why people are classified as "problems" for deviating even slightly from these standards. From homelessness and developmental disabilities to adaptation, excessive medicalization, the standardization of employment, and even low birth rates—this book calmly yet deeply reflects on whether the system we believe to be a better society is actually erasing diversity and tolerance. In this video, focusing on three key keywords—"social bleaching," "excessive medicalization," and "structural causes of low birth rates"—we examine together the uncomfortable truths that persist in today's Korean society. What have we gained and what have we lost in the name of cleanliness and normality? I hope you will reflect on this together through this video. 00:00 Opening: An Era Where ‘Normality’ Is Imposed 01:09 Introduction to Today’s Book: Toru Kumashiro, The Unpleasantness of a Pleasant Society 02:39 Reading 1: The Pressure of a Society Created by Order and Cleanliness 09:29 The Perfect Society and Vanishing Tolerance 11:07 Social Bleaching: People Pushed Out by Pleasant Cities 11:56 Excessive Medicalization: How the Problem of Adaptation Becomes a Diagnosis 14:46 Reading 2: The Logic of Capitalism Surrounding Low Birth Rates and Child Rearing 20:58 Questions Valid for Korean Society as well 22:43 A Society That Talks About Diversity Yet Excludes 23:40 Wrap-up: What We Are Missing Behind Cleanliness #ProfessorLee'sBooksAndPeople #TheUnpleasantnessOfAPleasantSociety #ToruKumashiro #ThoughtMap #Humanities #SocialCriticism #BookReview #BookTuber #Normality #Medicalization #LowBirthRate #JapaneseSociety #KoreanSociety #Reading #SocialPhilosophy "Professor Lee's Books and All content copyrights for "Saram" belong to "Munhwajakso Yeongseongdeul Co., Ltd." Copyright 2026. Munhwajakso Yeongseongdeul. All rights reserved.