“The Matrix” was almost right
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- August 31, 2023 at 1:25 pm #305766
I was thinking about the Matrix, not only because it’s an awesome movie but the paradigm it introduced to many of a technical tyranny that used humans while keeping them under complete control without them knowing it. It’s an analogy to many governments today.
But while the general paradigm is correct, the thing that would VERY much fool people and put them in a situation they would never question or want to leave is this.
What if everyone was Neo?
What if everyone was in their own little copy of the world being the hero thinking they are fighting the system when they are just playing another fantasy in the system?
I actually think that’s how an AI (or an evil person) would do it. Not only are you engrossed in the fantasy (instead of living boring normal life) but being in your own world not connected to others you would not be able to gang up on the system.
Just a wild thought.
August 31, 2023 at 4:23 pm #305769The Mandela Effect and alternative realities.
And as The Matrix suggests, we might all be already in an alternative reality.
Yet if we look at some people in this “reality”, they are in their own delusional world. Being apart of our world yet being separated from our world.
August 31, 2023 at 5:45 pm #305774“Yet if we look at some people in this “reality”
In the context of this conversation, why would you assume those are real people? My entire thrust on this is that the best way to fool and control people in a fantasy is to make them the hero and not just Joe Shmoe and in such a way they exist in their own “world” without contact of others. Essentially not single jail cells per person, but entire prisons per person but the prison was a mansion you could never leave.
There was an old Twilight Zone episode that always tickled my brain. A bad guy, a gangster type is killed during a crime. He enters the afterlife and it’s beautiful and amazing. Everyone is at his beck and call. Pretty ladies all over, 24/7 gambling, drinking and he wins everything at all times and everything he wishes for is brought to him. He even has a guide (Pip) who attends to his every whim. After a month he is bored out of his skull. He calls his guide to help him do risky things that are fun as they rest normally on chance but it’s all predetermined for him so he gives in. This is the last line of the episode.
“Deciding that he will go crazy if he stays in Heaven any longer, he asks Pip to take him to “the other place” — feeling that he does not belong in Heaven. However, Pip retorts, “Heaven? Whatever gave you the idea you were in Heaven, Mr. Valentine? This is the other place!””
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