[]{}It was a generation that often exasperated me, for I didn't share its utopia of uniting in a common struggle those who revolt against poverty and those who revolt against wealth. But it screamed out that gut reaction that better adjusted voices no longer knew how, or no longer dared to utter. I met peasants there who had come to know themselves through the struggle. Concretely it had failed. At the same time, all they had   won in their understanding of the world could have been won only through the struggle.

[]{}As for the students, some massacred each other in the mountains in the name of revolutionary purity, while others had studied capitalism so thoroughly to fight it that they now provide it with its best executives. Like everywhere else the movement had its postures and its careerists, including, and there are  some, those who made a career of martyrdom. But it carried with it all those who said, like Ché Guevara, that they "trembled with indignation every time an  injustice is committed in the world." They wanted to give a political meaning to their generosity, and their generosity has outlasted their politics. That's why I will never allow it to be said that youth is wasted on the young.

[]{}All the folklore of dreams is so much in its place   that the next day when I am awake I realize that I continue to seek in the basement labyrinth the presence concealed the night before. I begin to wonder if  those dreams are really mine, or if they are part of a totality, of a gigantic collective dream of which the entire city may be the projection.[]

[]{}Video games are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence. For the moment, the      inseparable philosophy of our time is contained in the Pac-Man. I didn't know when I was sacrificing all my hundred yen coins to him that he was going       to conquer the world. Perhaps because he is the most perfect graphic metaphor of man's fate. He puts into true perspective the balance of power between      the individual and the environment. And he tells us soberly that though there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of victorious attacks, it     always comes a cropper.[]


[]{}Brooding at the end of the world on my island of Sal in the company of my prancing dogs I remember that month of January in Tokyo, or rather I remember the images I filmed of the month of January in Tokyo. They have substituted themselves for my memory. They are my memory. I wonder how people remember things who don't film, don't photograph, don't tape. How has mankind managed to remember?[]

[]{}I wonder how people remember things who don't film, don't photograph, don't tape. How has mankind managed to remember? I know: it wrote the Bible. The new Bible will be an eternal magnetic tape of a time that will have to reread itself constantly just to know it existed.[]

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