ADDITIONAL BACKSTORY

Safe Society is anti-establishment in an entertainment world that is largely not.

Shimojima had generic and unexamined New Yorker attitudes; he knows firsthand what it means to be swayed by idealism. Then he began to feel alienated. At some point, the culture war crept into everything artistic and couldn't be avoided. And it almost always seems to be from one side or missing the bigger picture.

Shimojima has always been curious about the absurdities around him, but here, that only scratches the surface... It really started to feel like a horror story. It was a no-brainer to partly mold Safe Society into this genre.

Climate alarmism; meat-shaming; masks; shots; race obsession; gender-neutral obsession; DEI; media brainwashing; censorship of anyone that gets in the way. More broadly, it's a tale of mass psychosis and being programmed by the system.

Safe Society traces all this to a nefarious elite organization using socialism to create a new totalitarian state. (And some digging might show this isn't far from reality.)

Safe Society is a rare beast... While there is some “anti-woke” fiction that overlaps, this is something uniquely crafted with the sophisticated artistry of the very cultural elite that it satirizes -- all the better to subvert expectations, provoke, and not exactly preach to the choir.