Behind the Scenes of Short Story 210: 'Private Chaos in a Dystopia'

The theme this time is 'spell' or 'bondage'.
It is a story about the reality of being bound somewhere,
even if it feels like it happened in the distant past,
having been subjected to it as if it were natural.

[Story Genre]
・Speculative Essay
A deeply introspective, argumentative essay that examines the social structure of 'correct-answer supremacy' from a unique perspective, starting from one's own academic background and daily sense of discomfort.


[Story Structure]
・Four-part structure

Introduction: The 'Original Sin' of School Experience
While daring to disclose one's own grades and experience of repeating a year, it presents the deep-rooted nature of the dualistic rules of 'correct/incorrect' that school education instills.



Development: The 'Bonds' of Society and InformationIt analyzes the current situation where the 'test format' of school invades society, games, and even subjective realms like 'Somei Yoshino' cherry blossoms, robbing people of the flexibility of their thinking.


Twist: The 'Chaos' of Communication

It points out that the shortcutting of understanding due to information overload, and the understanding of others—which should inherently be complex—is being impaired by efficiency.

Conclusion: 'Return' to the Self
Rejecting a pre-arranged harmonious landing, it finds one's own natural state of being 'self-centered yet other-prioritizing'.
It concludes by affirming the confused thinking itself through the maxim 'Know thyself'.


[Story Construction]
・'Spiral-type self-deconstruction structure'




Relativization:
By looking at one's own past (academic failure) objectively, it highlights the danger of the 'correct answer' yardstick while standing on the horizon.
Connection:
It strings together different phenomena such as education, games, nature (cherry blossoms), human relationships, and AI using the common thread of 'obsession with correct answers'.

Inversion:

Instead of viewing the 'lack of answers' with anxiety, it reverses the values to suggest that the 'state of having no answers (chaos)' is actually the true form of human beings.

[Finally]
I also dismiss things roughly, but that is very rude to the other person, and there aren't really many convenient situations where someone is 'in trouble and wants you to do something about it'.
No matter how far you go, there are 'differences in views and values', and we tend to hold onto the illusion of 'people who can understand each other' through a series of compromises and resignations.
As a conclusion, if I were to say there is someone who can 'understand me a little', it would be my parents or siblings.
Differences certainly exist, but one cannot resist 'blood ties'.That might be a stronger bond than school.

By the way, the short story I quoted is

That is all for this time.
Thank you for reading.
Look forward to the next post.