In China, pressure tends to flow to the lowest points like water, and venting horizontally or downward is the safest way to release it. Nowadays, many people are very irritable, and conflicts can ignite easily on the streets or online—have you noticed the pattern? Conflicts often occur among ordinary people, which in sociology is called horizontal release of pressure. When someone suffers immense stress but cannot reach the true source of that pressure, or even dare not look up to it, they instinctively protect themselves by venting their anxiety onto those weaker or at the same level as themselves. Conflicts involving delivery workers, security guards, and drivers are essentially the result of pressure fluidly transmitting downward. This internal self-destruction most effectively masks the deeper structural contradictions. When everyone is busy blaming each other for low quality, no one looks up to see who is actually controlling the valve that creates the high pressure.