2010-10-16
The news merely regurgitates officially supplied information and, on top of that, does so in a manner subservient to someone or something…
Except for one program on one particular station… like the reporting on commercial television… it is beyond hope…
The reason NHK continues to produce wonderful documentaries and sports broadcasts is that you pay them.
Because your money sustains their operations, they sometimes make good programs for you.
I repeat: the reason commercial television has persisted in such idiocy over these past twenty years is that you have not paid it a single yen, and it has demonstrated that capitalism contains precisely this kind of foolishness.
Capitalism fears the truth… I think this is a lingering remnant of the Cold War… because capitalism still feels a fundamental sense of guilt toward communism, or socialism… It fears the truth.
What sustains America is simply, simply, the extraordinary magnitude of the American Dream… Statistically… even if it is unattainable for most people… they are not daunted by that… It is because their dreams are so extraordinarily immense… that no revolution occurs in America.
The magnitude of this dream… and of the freedom it generates… is the greatest in human history… That, I believe, is America’s reason for being… Tonight, I tell you this for free, you whom I love.
That is why they will never, ever relinquish those things…
The world’s greatest freedom of speech… and the finest intelligence…
Because those are what make America America.
Is what you believe defines our country something that holds its own in the world, or something as great as what defines America?
You become a shaper of public opinion by following the lofty pronouncements of the major newspapers’ editorial writers, and you have spent twenty years watching the most idiotic television in human history without a moment’s doubt…
I cannot help thinking that your dreams and freedom amount to little more than a fart.
Bearing no comparison to the American Dream, looking only at the present, concerned only with your own comfort and security right now…
I think they are something very small, like a mirage—something that people in other countries cannot grasp even if they place their hopes in you, something like a mirage.
Your head, forever subservient to someone or something, is empty, and all you do is repeatedly make a great fuss over whatever happens at the time.
Because your heads are empty, when the economy declines, you all say the same things, make the same judgments, and hang your heads;
When the economy rises, you square your shoulders and start saying, “What’s so great about Tokyo?” and “What’s so great about America?”
And you end up going to expensive restaurants and saying things like, “I don’t care what it is—bring me your most expensive wine.”
In Japan, perhaps, there might be occasions when this could pass as an amusing story, but you do not even realize that elsewhere in the world it makes you an object of contempt.
Among the things that happened more than twenty years ago, such gratuitous behavior contributed to the belated and excessively drastic restrictions on total lending,
And resentment toward people like you also amplified the great chorus of righteous indignation in 1992 that I have already described…
“Why should the public’s hard-earned tax money be used to pay for what real estate companies, banks, and the construction industry have done?”
Yet that was something like a farce, and the struggle of the intelligence embodied in Weekly A revealed, as though it were the voice of God, that the fundamental problem lay with all of us, who had never properly broken with our habit of subservience.
Japan has only another 500 trillion yen to spare, only another thirty years of grace…
For Japan to disappear through hypocrisy and the egotism of pursuing one’s own advancement would do the world no good…
And so, perhaps, God exposed the true nature of the prosecutors.
Even so, you foolish people still seek to join the major newspapers in a great chorus of justice.
You should think carefully about whether you are so foolish that you want to be brainwashed by such idiotic media and join them in destroying your country.
What the present Democratic Party of Japan, and Japan’s political parties until now, have never been able to possess…
Perhaps, through the book I will soon publish, I may enable them to possess it…
What I can say here and now is that Japan has imitated nothing but America’s failings,
But over these past two years, Weekly A has reached the very essence of America.
To everyone involved with Weekly A…
I dedicate what is now the greatest song in the world… Arcade Fire’s ♪Half Light I♪.
I dedicate this song to you and me, all around the world.