Politics must match their pace. It has become a very intelligent society-much more so than America. What is striking about this passage is the linkage of speed, information and intelligence. There is an assertion of the naturalness of the process, almost an evocation of information as environment, as Nature itself. Information comes naturally into one's head, yet the nation is responsible for providing this information.
Information is transparent, devoid of ideological taint.
The transparency and consensus of Japanese knowledge allow it to exceed, productively, the heterogeneous and racially divided cultural masses of the rest of the globe. Nakasone thus creates a narrative of legitimation in which Japanese superiority depends on density of information and capacity to read. His serial linkages of transparent information, culture, and racial superiority, and his notions of the high-level information society are ones that increasingly condense aspects of a Japanese situation that many would call postmodern. Almost all formulations of the postmodern agree in detecting a crisis of representation. This crisis is grounded in the extremity of the contemporary moment, one defined by the dominance of multinational corporations, the nuclear sublime, and the extraordinary speed and replication of information created by computerization.