Tag: the Matrix
Are We Insane?
ARE WE INSANE? Is anxiety, and even depression, a rational response to what passes for reality these days? Chris Hedges seems to think so. Here’s how he frames the issue: Welcome to the Asylum When civilizations start to die, they go insane. . . Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk …
Soylent Green & Corporations Are People Too: Romney Edition
Mittens the Missing emerged from his fortress of solitude Thursday to participate in Friday’s Iowa Republican presidential candidates’ debate. Figuring that as long as he was going to be in Iowa anyway, he deigned to grace the commoners with his royal presence. (Didn’t help much, given his coming in seventh in yesterday’s straw poll, which he won in 2007). Artfully …
Sarah Palin Meets The Matrix
When a nation becomes unmoored from reality, it retreats into a world of magic. Facts are accepted or discarded according to the dictates of a preordained cosmology. The search for truth becomes irrelevant.
Masters Of Time
Films that make it around the world can become important cultural benchmarks for shared ideas and experiences. The Matrix is such a film. A venturesome science-fiction/mythical story pitting man against machine against new age nihilism against slow-motion bullets, with a dash of time transcendence thrown in for special effects crunchy goodness. Without putting a value judgment on it as a film or a philosophy, it can still serve as a planet-wide meme for the purveyors of and partakers in world culture, even a rudimentary philosophy of reality.
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The McCain Ad Team has been infiltrated— Is “The ONE” ready to lead?!? Wul, Hhyuh, Grandpa. . . Why duh ya think they call him “The ONE”? The ONE— Disabling the onslaught of evil Repuglidung pellets hurled up by the McSame Camp Pain in sheer desperation Buzz this ad up on YouTube; maybe they’ll keep making this kind of mistake …
