With the rise of the internet and AI, traditional academic elites are losing their dominance. Drawing on personal experience, the author argues that independent bloggers who truly think have already surpassed university professors, calling for a reactivation of intellectual life.

August 6, 2017.
The following continues from the previous chapter.
Bloggers have surpassed university professors.
Turning on the television, one sees a study-elite politician with a glittering résumé—University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, Ministry of Health and Welfare, graduate studies at Harvard—Representative Mayuko Toyoda shouting abuse, yelling, “You bald idiot!”.
I feel it is my mission to reduce even one such person, and to reactivate the study elites who will eventually become obsolete with the development of the internet and artificial intelligence.
The development of the internet is astonishing, and once you open it, you find bloggers who have quietly overtaken university professors.
This is truly the case, and in my book Deciphering European Thought—What Gave Birth to Modern Science, I searched online for such bloggers and had them coach me in business management studies.
Even university professors cannot understand what they do not know, so in unfamiliar fields one must be stimulated through coaching.
Of course, there are also poor bloggers.
Ignoring the historical context of the 1990s, when discussions of Korea in Japan were limited to narratives of atonement or sympathy and publishers refused to release books unless one aligned with either camp, some bloggers denounce me as if I were a turncoat.
Such people are not thinking.
Incidentally, I will add that even now I sympathize with Korea’s geography and history.
To be continued.