绳索与棍棒

Missing, extremely new, or very obvious to obtain.

A reference to Kobo Abe's short stories, Nawa (Rope) and Bou (The Stick). Both of these stories were referenced by Hideo Kojima in the opening of Death Stranding, where it states: "The "Rope", along with the "Stick", are two of mankind's oldest tools. The stick to keep the bad away, the rope used to bring the good toward us. They were our first friends, of our own invention. Wherever there were people, there were the rope and the stick”. You could say the unreasonable people are the stick while the ones who pull things out of thin air are the rope.