America's Matrix

[pynchonoid]

--- Horváth_Gábor <horvathg at delfin.klte.hu> wrote:
> Hi pynchonoid!
> 
> I'm sorry to write you separately, but I couldn't
> find a way to post the
> reply at the list.
> So if you could put it on the list, or tell me how
> to post, that would be
> greatful.
> 
> 
> > pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: America's Matrix
> 
> > consortiumnews.com
> 
> > America's Matrix
> 
> > By Robert Parry
> > June 2, 2003
> 
> > ?Matrix? and its sequel. ?Matrix Reloaded,? offer
> a
> > useful analogy for anyone trying to make sense of
> the
> > chasm that has opened between what?s real and what
> > Americans perceive is real. Like the
> science-fiction
> > world of the two movies, a false reality is being
> > pulled daily over people?s eyes, often through
> what
> > they see and hear on their TV screens.
> 
> > Facts have lost value. Logic rarely applies.
> 
> The last two sentences are highlit because I want to
> refer to these.
> 
> I think the French guy (I don't know his name) has a
> different function in
> the film.
> He's more like a 'l'homme de raison' of the
> 18th-19th century,
> somewhat similar to what we can see in Mason&Dixon,
> but in a more
> aristocratic way.
> And the Wachowsky brothers put him in the film just
> to prove that
> that era doesn't hold or belong to the end of the
> 20th century.
> 
> Robert Parry is right to notice it, but forgot that
> he's there
> so that we must find something else instead, not to
> mourn 'logic' and
> causility.
> I think the brothers want to refer to the more
> 'holistic' Eastern beliefs
> of perception, but without giving any specific hint.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Gabor Horvath
> Debrecen
> Hungary
> 
> 
> 


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