Invincible people have appeared in large numbers in Japan and South Korea, and the truth behind them must be taken seriously.
Today, I will talk to you about the lone wolf style attacks brought by the invincible man.
As we all know, Japan used to be the safest country in the world. According to data released by the United Nations, out of 196 countries worldwide, Japan has a homicide rate of only 0.3 per 100000 people, far ahead of the second place.
The Economist also conducted a systematic survey and finally ranked the top 60 safest cities in the world, with Tokyo, Singapore, and Osaka in the top three being Japan.
It can be seen that the security environment in Japan is indeed very good, and it is difficult for you to encounter malicious attacks there.
But these are all things from the past. In recent years, Japan’s security environment has gradually deteriorated, and indiscriminate attacks often occur, leading to the rapid destruction of Japan’s security myth and gradually becoming a global laughing stock.
The cause of this situation is a special group in Japan – the invincible people.
What is an invincible person? As early as 2008, Japanese media personality Hiroyuki Nishimura was the first to propose a viewpoint. According to his observation, there is a special group in Japanese society who have no friends, no partners, no children, and even their parents have already left. Their relationships with colleagues and relatives are also very indifferent. Their social circle is basically just themselves. These people have completely cut off contact with society due to their lack of concern, and therefore have lost their weaknesses. They are a special group that even black and evil forces cannot avoid, because no one knows what they will suddenly do.
People with these characteristics are called invincible in Japan.
At the beginning, this concept did not attract people’s attention until 2022, when a gunshot sounded and the whole world witnessed the power of invincible people.
On July 8, 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave a speech in Nara Prefecture, Japan. While everyone was listening to his governing policies, an ordinary and thin figure suddenly appeared in the crowd. He pulled out his homemade gun and fired two shots in total. The first shot declared his Hualien entry and told Abe that he was here, while the second shot directly pierced Abe’s heart, putting an end to the injustice in the world. After completing these tasks, he was subdued by the security personnel on site and calmly waited to be listed as a global hot topic.
This is the story of Japan’s first male gun, Tetsuya Yamagami, who is a very typical invincible person. He has been single for more than 40 years, unmarried, without a wife or children, with a biological brother who committed suicide. His father has passed away, and his only relative, his mother, has lost all her assets due to her addiction to Shintoism, making his life even worse.
He appears simple and honest on weekdays, with a very introverted personality. His neighbors who have lived with him for a long time have not even greeted him, and his colleagues who have worked with him for many years only maintain a superficial cooperative relationship. Although he lives in a bustling city, he seems out of place in this world and is a very typical Japanese otaku man. He is a generation deeply influenced by Japanese otaku culture and lying flat culture.
It is such an ordinary person who personally ended the life of the Japanese Prime Minister, which makes people have to admit that history is a collection of countless accidental and inevitable events.
Similar to him, there is also a Japanese man named Maki Maki who caused a sensation throughout Japan in 2019, which was the famous Kyoto anime arson case.
The specific incident was that he poured gasoline and set fire to the studio, which caused a major fire and resulted in 36 deaths and 35 injuries.
When investigating the cause of the case, the police found that Shinji Maki was also an invincible person. He had no wife or children, and had been single for 40 years. His father, brother, and sister all committed suicide, leaving little family left. In the end, he decided to retaliate against society in despair of life, and thus committed the arson incident.
There are many cases of invincible individuals retaliating against society. Since 2008, such sensational cases have occurred almost every year in Japan, and every time the culprit is investigated, they are invincible individuals.
In the end, the Japanese government was forced to conduct big data screening in order to determine which individuals were more likely to engage in such extreme events. In order to facilitate investigation and statistics, they provided several important screening labels:
Firstly, unmarried older adults.
Secondly, parents have passed away.
Thirdly, the income is very low.
Then, based on these tags, further filtering is conducted, and after multiple rounds of statistics, potential invincible individuals are discovered, at least numbering in the millions.
Then the matter was left unresolved because it was useless to investigate thoroughly, as Japan did not have as many police forces to monitor so many potential risks.
Similar to Japan are the Koreans next door to us.
In 2023, there were multiple cases of malignant homicide in South Korea.
Firstly, on July 21st, a South Korean man wielding a knife indiscriminately killed one person near a subway station, resulting in one death and three injuries.
Then on July 24th, another mysterious person posted online, claiming to randomly kill 20 women at a subway station.
Just when everyone was dismissive of this notice, at 6:00 p.m. on August 3, a violent attack occurred at a subway station in Gyeonggi do, South Korea. A Korean drove into a department store to kill five passers-by, and finally 12 people were seriously injured and one died.
Before everyone could recover, the next day, another South Korean man rushed into the campus and randomly injured a teacher, scaring all the students to flee in panic.
Finally, the South Korean police conducted a case investigation and found that these attack cases had almost no motive for the crime. The victims and perpetrators did not even know each other, and they were all retaliatory cases of invincible people.
As we all know, the situation in South Korea has the lowest marriage rate and fertility rate in the world. You don’t even need to look it up to find out. About half of the young people in South Korea are single. If they don’t have a good relationship with their original families, they can easily develop into invincible people.
Then what shall I do? The Koreans were helpless to find that there was no way, because there were so many invincible people that they were powerless to manage.
I know everyone will be curious when they see this, why are there so many invincible people in Japan and South Korea?
I have actually mentioned the reason to everyone a long time ago, that a healthy society must have a good economic environment and marriage system.
The biggest problem in Japan and South Korea is that the upward mobility channels for young people in their countries have been basically blocked, which has then spread to the field of marriage and triggered a wave of unmarried infertility.
Take Japan as an example. In addition to the well-known reason that Japan’s foam burst and its economy lost 30 years, there is another reason, that is, Japan’s solidified social structure.
Now many people are talking about retirement at 63, but do you know what the retirement age is in Japan? Legally, it has long been postponed to the age of 65, but in practice, many Japanese elderly people over the age of 70 are still working. I have seen a very alarming data before, that is, the average age of middle and senior management in Japanese companies is as high as 63 years old. If you graduate and enter the company at the age of 23, you will have to endure 40 years to have a chance to succeed. To be honest, if I were in Japan, I would not work hard because it is meaningless.
So the popularity of lying flat in Japan is in line with their national conditions, and nothing will happen out of thin air.
Living in such a country, you will also become desireless and childless, and then remain single for decades until after the age of 40, successfully upgrading to an invincible person.
The situation in South Korea is basically the same. The chaebols monopolize the job market, good jobs are almost hereditary, the college entrance examination is close to the highest in the world, and coupled with the demonized feminist movement, it directly makes young people in South Korea start to not get married and have children. I have seen a data before, and there are already over 10 million single person households in South Korea, while the total number of people in South Korea is only over 50 million. In other words, it is not easy to see a family of three in South Korea. With such a national situation, how many invincible people do you think there are in South Korea?
I know there must be some people who are confused, that even if they never get married or have children in their lifetime, they don’t necessarily have to retaliate against society. There is no logical relationship between this.
Actually, understanding this issue is very simple. You need to look at it from two perspectives.
How are humans, as animals, constrained by social order?
In order to ensure the smooth operation of human society, humans have invented two things, one called law and the other called morality, which jointly constrain people’s behavior and achieve a harmonious society.
However, law and morality have almost no restraining effect on invincible people. The reason is simple: invincible people have no social circles or networks, and they don’t care about losing face in front of strangers. They don’t know each other anyway, so moral constraints are basically meaningless to them.
As for legal constraints, they are even more useless, because the reason why invincible people are invincible is because they have nothing left to lose. If you say you want to blacklist their credit information, they don’t care. If you say you want to arrest them, they are very happy because someone is finally taking care of their food. If you say you want to shoot them, they may not want to live long ago.
So for such people, today’s human society indeed lacks ways to regulate them.
Of course, there is another reason besides this, which is that people in the industrial era were indeed more indifferent than those in the agricultural era.
This has also been a long-standing confusion for many people, who cannot understand why young people nowadays are so indifferent, not close to relatives, and have superficial relationships with colleagues and friends. Although the reasons are complex, I personally believe there are two core factors:
One is the individual atomization brought about by industrialization and urbanization, what does it mean? In the past, everyone lived in the countryside, living in groups and helping each other, so they had close relationships and emotions.
But with the process of industrialization and urbanization, everyone has moved into the city. From a profit perspective, you no longer need relatives or neighbors to help you plow the fields, because your job can completely support yourself. Without interest exchange, you lack dependence and naturally lose the need for interaction. Emotional foundations are all generated by interaction. Without interaction, there will naturally be no emotions. This is why young people nowadays do not like to interact with relatives because there is indeed too little interaction.
In addition to this reason, there is another reason, which is that the pace of modern life is too fast and the pressure of life is high, leading young people to focus their lives on making money. Otherwise, they cannot afford a house, a car, or marry a wife. This makes their life focus entirely on making money, and they do not have enough energy to maintain unnecessary social relationships.
In the past, people engaged in agricultural production seemed busy, but in fact, they had a lot of free time to rest every year, which gave them energy to engage in social activities, and thus their overall relationships were relatively close.
It is precisely because of these differences that young people nowadays are generally indifferent. If you don’t believe it, observe around yourself whether there is a fundamental difference in how people born in the 2000s and 2010s view kinship relationships compared to those born in the 1960s and 1970s?
Once you understand this, you will know that when a society begins to become more indifferent, invincible individuals are more likely to exhibit extreme behavior because in their eyes, the world has nothing to do with them.
How can we prevent such extreme cases? To be frank, how to deal with the one-man attack caused by the invincible is a major problem in the world at present. Take the world’s hegemonic Americans for example. Because of this, they have come up with two ways to reduce the occurrence of vicious cases:
Firstly, implementing large-scale welfare assistance throughout the United States means distributing food everywhere to prevent the lower class from starving to death and taking risks.
Secondly, the introduction of laws stipulates that zero yuan purchases below $950 are basically not processed. Why not be processed? One is that the prison cannot hold them, and the other is a disguised way of providing a living guarantee for invincible people, preventing them from doing extreme things.
Look, the United States is like this, what better way can other countries do it?
