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Philosophy, Reality and The Matrix
securitas writes "The NYT discusses The Matrix as a reflection of American society, the 'war on terror', political allegory and the impact of The Matrix on contemporary philosophy. NPR provides streaming audio conversations with Matrix thinkers, including Jake Horsley, author of 'Matrix Warrior: Being the One'; Prof. Frances Flannery Dailey on violence in the Matrix; and Prof. Greg Garrett, co-author of 'The Gospels Reloaded' and why he doesn't like the kind of hero that Neo has become. Finally, the CSM follows up its The Gospel According to Neo with an online chat transcript with Josh Burek, the author of the essay."
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Yes? And you now have people around the world answering census questions on religion with "Jedi." What I want to know is how many are registering at "Sith." Those people could be dangerous.
And soon we'll all be genetic manipulated agents in a brave zion world... Fuck instrumentalism dammit :(
M-HM! Don't you try that brainwashing stuff on me you AGENT, I know what's real!
trms
Geez, if you're going to adopt a faux-English persona, at least realize that it's "bollocks", not "bullocks".
Think about it: In the Matrix Reloaded, GNU/Smith touches anyone else, and they become GNU/Smiths. He is just as viral as the GPL!
And it's not like they only get a GNU/Smith arm in their othervise normal bodies, they turn completely GNU/Smith.
Mussolini, Hitler and ..... Bush?
Click here, to know what I'm talking about.
It's kinda interesting to think about this, coincidence? Most probably. Or not?
thank you for expressing the opinion of the great unwashed. Fortunately, there are people who don't think this, and have created some really good films. For thinking.
Yes, and it worked pretty well, too. Until Spaceballs came out, that is.
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
Actually I came to a conclusion:
Neo is Trinity's twin brother and their dad is Agent Smith.
For the W. brothers in Revolutions to deliver an intentionally lame and anti-climatic ending, such as the entire Matrix existing in an Atari 2600. I can see it now, thousands of trenchcoat- wearing acne faced teens, goatee-wearing philosphy graduate students, and the entire geek community having to be put on suicide watch due to the tremendous let down at the meaning of life having it's root in pong and space invaders.
An arch is also a way of keeping the ceiling from falling on your head.
-Dave
Now now, a majority of the people dancing in Zion were black. Even in the "real world", white people can't dance.
"jibberish poems"? Gladly present some of these. The only thing that comes to my mind is, "Does it really matter whether you dream of a butterfly, or whether that butterfly is dreaming of you?" That is to say, either way, you're not really "living" in the normal concious, lucid sense. And if one is dreaming, and then "wakes" for the first time, how would one know that one is waking to the "real" world, rather then just another nest in one's perpetual dream? The well educated individual can form an argument for, or against just about anything, so you should pull your head out of your ass before you unilaterally denounce to existence of independent thought.