Tuesday, 27 October 2015

THE MATRIX REINTERPRETED

Malcolm Muggeridge, a famous journalist at the time, wrote these words in 1966:

“Some future historian, I suppose, will one day survey this curious time with the ironic detachment of a Gibbon[i]. He is to be envied. What a rare harvest awaits him! – always of course, assuming that we do not, in obedience to the death wish which seems to possess us, destroy ourselves and all our records. Even if the records survive they will, in any case, be difficult to make out. Such a vast accumulation of lies and slanted information! Such contradictory conclusions and conflicting evidence! How will it ever be disentangled? A recent newspaper correspondent in Moscow was asked by a wide-eyed visiting leftist, when Stalin’s purges were in full swing, how far the court proceedings were to be believed. Everything was true, he replied, except the facts. It might be our epitaph. Never have so many facts been accumulated; never have such an ingenious and efficacious means of propagating them far and wide been devised, but only to weave a great web of deception. 
The Dark Ages were noontide compared to our light.”[emphasis mine]

Remember this was before ‘Post Modernism’ and its deconstruction of ‘truth’, facts, and objectivity.
How much more must this be ‘true’ today? The Matrix of today is not technological it is philosophical.


[i] The Historian not the primate.

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