The greatest system generating social inequality in Japan is not the government itself but the arrogance of the media and the pseudo-intellectuals it elevates. By falsifying reality, mobilizing incompetent scholars, and manipulating public opinion through newspapers and television, these elites have inflicted enormous damage on the nation. This essay exposes the structural corruption behind Japan’s media-driven deception.

The greatest mechanism for producing inequality is governmental failure and incompetence, together with the tyranny of the media.

By “media tyranny,” I mean the practice of fabricating outrageous lies, mobilizing incompetent scholars to present them as truth, and thereby inflicting massive damage upon the nation.
I also mean the condition in which people whose minds are already hopelessly corrupted by failed leftist ideology—people who, to put it bluntly, would rank somewhere around the lower middle or bottom half of my own classmates, though in fact not one of my classmates was like them—come to wield power exceeding even the separation of powers.
In other words, they dominate newspapers and television networks and shape Japan’s public opinion.

At the same time, this is a profession made possible only because more than 90 percent of the Japanese people work from morning till night in the real world of industry and commerce.
For example, individuals who chose the path of so-called “scholarship,” who then, through some strange misunderstanding, place their own human inadequacies completely out of sight, puff out their chests as university professors, and attack a government that is, in fact, governing in a highly proper manner today.

Or consider the spectacle of a mere novelist who, after winning the Nobel Prize and by virtue of being older than the prime minister, publicly insults in front of ordinary citizens—somewhere in Hibiya Park or the like—a prime minister who is carrying out the finest politics in recent history.

Or take the figure who follows in this line: a mediocre talent who concealed his plagiarism of a genuine American female novelist, and who—just as Masayoshi Son amassed a ridiculous fortune while the public grew poorer—rose to fame in inverse proportion to the collapse of the publishing industry.
Exalted by publishers, he became a mega best-selling author and a billionaire (a multi-billion-yen tycoon).

While children raised in poverty—one in six in this country—cannot even imagine such luxury, he stays at the world’s most exclusive resort hotels, writes his books there, installs ultra-high-end audio systems in his home, and tilts glasses of ultra-premium wine.

For someone like me, who was forced to begin life with nothing, John Lennon, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan remain inseparable from my soul even now.
In complete contrast, when this man plagiarized a celebrated American female author—who had established her fame by drawing inspiration from Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”—he casually made use of Beatles songs as well.
At the time, I felt a sense of unease about this.
And that was why, several years ago, I instantly grasped the entire truth of the matter.

My intuition has since been proven correct.
Today, this man no longer listens to the Beatles at all.
Instead, he installs ultra-luxury audio equipment in his home, sips ultra-premium wine, listens exclusively to classical music, and cozies up to world-famous conductors in a desperate attempt to obtain a Nobel Prize.

He is a man who stands at the farthest possible distance from the spirit of the Beatles and Bob Dylan.

Without even realizing that his historical consciousness is no more advanced than that of a kindergarten child—having grown up merely reading Asahi Shimbun—he repeatedly proclaims that Japan must continue to apologize to Korea forever, delivering statements of the most extreme pseudo-moralism.

What is more, when people who finally awakened to the fabrications of Asahi Shimbun quite naturally began speaking out across the country, he sneered at them, dismissing their views as the ideology of cheap liquor.

This column continues.