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He claims that electronic texture is the only one that can deal
with sentiment, memory, and imagination.
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Mizoguchi's Arsène Lupin for example,
or the no less imaginary burakumin.
:06:23
How one claim to show a category of Japanese who do not exist?
:06:28
Yes they're there; I saw them in Osaka hiring themselves
out by the day, sleeping on the ground.
:06:33
Ever since the middle ages they've been doomed
to grubby and back-breaking jobs.
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But since the Meiji era, officially nothing sets them apart,
and their real nameetais a taboo word, not to be pronounced.
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They are non-persons.
How can they be shown, except as non-images?
:06:59
Video games are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race,
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the only plan that offers a future for intelligence.
:07:07
For the moment, the inseparable philosophy of our time
is contained in the Pac-Man.
:07:12
I didn't know when I was sacrificing all my hundred yen coins to him
that he was going to conquer the world.
:07:17
Perhaps because he is the most perfect graphic metaphor of man's fate.
:07:22
He puts into true perspective the balance of power
between the individual and the environment.
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And he tells us soberly that though
there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of victorious attacks,
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it always comes a cropper.