The Matrix Wants Me Back
The Matrix could be seen as a suitable film metaphor for how 9/11 truth views the world and itself.
The Military Industrial Complex and the corporations are the endless hoards of self-replicating machines. The Matrix is the illusory prison of irrelevant ideas, unaware of the system that holds us, placed into diversionary jobs, routines, and fed a spectrum of lies in the various media, storylines and illusions which give us meaning and purpose. The agents are the talking heads of media and religion which ensure consistency in the synthetic reality.The masses, aka “sheeple,” are the acquiescent masses, hapless victims being drained of their inherent power, victimized only because they don’t realize they’re prisoners.
The leaders of the truth movement are the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar and everyone else who has “woken up” are the last city of humans, Zion. Oh yeah, and our reluctant but apt hero, Neo, is none other than wouldbe presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul (aka “The Last Best Hope for America”).
I think I just realized that I might be Cypher, or like him, who turns on the truth in favour of being inserted back into the matrix (only to be killed in the attempt, mind you..)
Edit (from comments): I guess the point is that they view the world as a movie and themselves as the heroes.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
I can see where you are coming from on that. Ron might be like Morpheus too, offering us the choice. Of course, that’d mean that we are Neo.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
With yet another preamble that I am not a “truther” (I feel like I might be doing a lot of these - let’s just leave it as unspoken henceforth?), the Matrix sucks hard and you know it. Regardless of whether 9/11 was an inside job, all those other things you spoke about (agents, irrelevent storylines, diversionary jobs) are in full action.
The Matrix is an apt metaphor for the way the world at large works, as well. Keep everything you said there, except replace 9/11 truth with activism (let’s say anti-capitalist, anti-globalist, environmentalist). Actually, replace it with any kind of marginal view and it works. (Not that you didn’t know this already.)
Though I guess the whole point of being re-insterted into the Matrix is that you don’t know how bad it is. You’ll still think that steak is real. And you could be someone important… like an actor.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I guess the point is that they view the world as a movie and themselves as the hero.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Yeah I believe that one.
November 20th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I am a 2 tour Vietnam Veteran who recently retired after 36 years of working in the Defense Industrial Complex on many of the weapons systems being used by our forces as we speak.
Politicians make no difference.
We have bought into the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). If you would like to read how this happens please see:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/halliburton200711
Through a combination of public apathy and threats by the MIC we have let the SYSTEM get too large. It is now a SYSTEMIC problem and the SYSTEM is out of control. Government and industry are merging and that is very dangerous.
There is no conspiracy. The SYSTEM has gotten so big that those who make it up and run it day to day in industry and government simply are perpetuating their existance.
The politicians rely on them for details and recommendations because they cannot possibly grasp the nuances of the environment and the BIG SYSTEM.
So, the system has to go bust and then be re-scaled, fixed and re-designed to run efficiently and prudently, just like any other big machine that runs poorly or becomes obsolete or dangerous.
This situation will right itself through trauma. I see a government ENRON on the horizon, with an associated house cleaning.
The next president will come and go along with his appointees and politicos. The event to watch is the collapse of the MIC.
For more details see:
http://rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com/2007/02/warped-priorities.html
November 20th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Mr. Larson, ditch the capital letters…
Thank you for visiting FlatPlanet, I visited your web page and the pie chart comparing military spending to everything else government spends money was a nice visual. You did repost your article in the comments section here. Is this your way of contributing to a conversation that has a reference of the MIC?
You write, “There is no conspiracy.” I see what you mean…It’s just a systemic phenomenon… self perpetuating establishment… within which there is no individuals conspiring? You write, “Through a combination of public apathy and threats by the MIC we have let the SYSTEM get too large.” What threats by the MIC?
I agree that there is a systemic problem. But why would you envision an “Enron” on the horizon? Can you validate that metaphor in anyway? What would a collapose of the MIC resemble and what would it imply?
Will you ever come back to reply? Ah well…
November 21st, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I hope so!
I guess in a way the whole MIC thing is conspiracy-lite, in that it is not a ‘conspiracy’ theory, because everyone who actually looks at the way things are can tell right off that it’s going on.
But yeah, it’s tricky as hell to get out of. I don’t foresee a government “Enron” on the horizon, personally… The Republicans will get booted for sure (almost for sure? I guess I was sure he’d get booted last time around), but the players will remain, in one way or another. And if Hillary gets elected, well, from the sounds of it (though I haven’t really been following) she’s almost as militaristic as you could expect any Republican to be.
Unless, of course, people elect a third party. Not to quote the Simpsons, but we know that doesn’t work. (I voted for Kodos.)
November 21st, 2007 at 10:54 pm
your post almost made me just blurt out “RON PAUL 2008!”
or, I wanted to think of a matrix quote and replace Neo’s name with Ron Paul. Since he is as far as anyone can tell the only alternative to the war agenda.
but that is still incongruent with what Ken Larson said: politicians don’t matter.