Today, new my column is released, so I take a day off.

"A New Theory of Action for Engineers Who Are Not Loved by Money(7)"

I became a "guru (temporary)" as a strategy to survive in old age

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Frankly speaking, the last column was not very well accepted -- from my viewpoint based on Twitter or rankings.

I made some revisions, but to be honest, I was disappointed because I put a lot of effort into writing it.

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Junior: "Ebata-san. That's probably a generational gap"

Ebata: "?"

Junior: "In our generation, "cults" were recognized as really dangerous -- Unification Church, Soka Gakkai, Aum, Happy Science, Jehovah's Witnesses... There was no college student who didn't know about them, and the public had a certain level of knowledge about them. There wasn't a college student who didn't know these things existed, and the public had a certain amount of knowledge about them.

Ebata: "Yes. I think so. I saw LDP General Affairs Chairman Tatsuo Fukuda on the news once saying, 'I don't know what the problem (about the Unification Church) is,' and I involuntarily lectured him on TV, saying, 'What the hell have you learned so far?' "

Junior: "...that LDP member, maybe he really 'didn't get it'."

Ebata: "Yes! That's "no" in any case. Is there such a member of parliament in our country?"

Junior: "It is possible that he had at least some knowledge, but he did not feel the impact (anti-social activities such as psychic sales and excessive donations) firsthand.

Ebata: "Really? When I was walking around college campuses, there always seemed to be a sense of tension that if I wasn't careful, I would get hit."

Junior: "Also, it's possible that activity on the cult side is declining."

Ebata: "What do you mean?"

Junior: "There has been no improvement in the congregational recruitment approach -- they are just using existing methods and not improving their approach. And so the cult side is on the verge of extinction"

Ebata: "If it's on its way to extinction, that's great... but there are still a lot of approaches that could be taken, like the 'one-op missionary' that I proposed in my column, right?"

Junior: "I think the problem with cult groups is that they can't make such 'IT literate' people into believers."

Ebata: "I see. Religion and IT don't seem to go well together..."

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Now, in this column, I would like to look at your "interest in cults".

Please note that I am also personally releasing an unmodified version of my previous column to anyone who is interested.