From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 23:26:22 MDT
Don't know if others have browsed the Matrix website, but it has some
interesting philosophy articles. One I especially enjoyed was:
http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_pryor.html
Where Professor Pryor examines exactly what, from a philosophical
standpoint, is so bad about living in the matrix.
One thing that has always bugged me about the story that Morpheus touts
is that we never hear the other side. I mean, the Zionists could easily
be a bunch of luddites who opposed an extropian future, who launched a
war against an ongoing singularity, and the Agents are simply gussied
up 'antivirus' programs with their own motivational programs giving
them anti-human attitudes. We never see what the head intelligences of
the Matrix actually think, and what their side of the story is.
While Prof Pryor examines what is so bad about eating steak inside the
matrix, I am more interested in seeing a sympathetic character on the
side of the Matrix who knows what really happened, perhaps an uploaded
extropian.
We know that the ruination of the atmosphere was caused by the Zionists
to shut the Matrix off from its energy source, the sun. The movie
avoids a logical progression of thought on this, though. If the Matrix
enslaved humans only for an energy source after the atmosphere was
ruined, then it is the Zionists who are to blame for the enslavement of
mankind, and the Matrix's existence prior to that point must have been
entirely benevolent. We can thus conclude that the future of The Matrix
is not the result of runaway technology, but the result of luddite
terrorism.
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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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