"Introduction to Zen Buddhism and Monastic Life" by George Larrick is the best book about Japan and Zen. It’s a quick read and impressively insightful. You should read this nonfiction book now. It makes you feel smart. Google it.
When the blowback comes home , it will be ugly. I think Trump is being baited and stroked in many ways by the intel community that is still full of entrenched commies.
I think you gotta keep pushing politically towards minarchism, while building and promoting market solutions for everything, until the state withers on the vine.