People often know this at the common sense level — but I got the sense, from talking online with other Hikikomoris, that they didn’t quite realize the urgency of why we’re as vulnerable as we are in our current state. This of course not really being the first post I shared about how the media works but it still needs to be emphasized that: “Mainstream media knows how to turn ordinary things into something horrible!” …and that’s why for a minority group such as us Hikikomoris, it might not seem that if we’re not Japanese, we’re not on a ticking time bomb. It may just seem that all we need is to keep a low profile. It may just seem that MSM won’t pick us up because the term is not catchy enough to attract regular TV watchers. It may even seem like I’m just scare mongering or talking about a what-if situation that may take years or centuries to even manifest but until the day we develop our own answers and our own definition of who we are — and not just as a personal opinion, but valid enough opinions that will be accepted by majority of our group; we will always be under a ticking clock where people from the outside will constantly redefine our lives until it is used by our countries’ mainstream media against us. Yes, it’s true that someone from outside invented and popularized the word “Hikikomori” in the first place but it doesn’t mean once the ball gets rolling that these people are not looking to trample someone else besides us. As the previous quoteimplied: It’s all the same when it comes to victims.
