============================================================================ From: "Andy Morris" <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: Escaping the Matrix Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 01:10:30 -0000 Just a note to say I read your article http://cyberjournal.org/cj/rkm/WE/jun00Matrix.shtml and was amazed, it hit so much resonance in me, brilliant. I'm not sure weather 'the matrix' is a real conspiracy, or a set of self sustaining beliefs that has a net effect as you describe, although held my a population who believe that they are doing 'right' as they see it. I'm not sure if this makes any sense, if you've read Susan Blackmore's The 'Meme Machine' , I may make more sense. Is the Matrix a conspiracy or a memeplex? Thanks Andy M ========= Dear Andy, I'd say it's both. Take out a dollar bill and look at the pyramid on the back - the one with the label "New World Order" (Novus Ordo Seclorum) beneath it. The pyramid can serve as a map of the matrix. The closer you get to the bottom, the more you are captured by the memeplex power of the matrix. When you get to the very top, where the eye is, then you're at the cynical, elite, conscious-conspiracy level. If you liked "Escaping the Matrix", then you'll want to look at Jerry Fresia's "Toward an American Revolution", which traces the the development of the matrix from 1776 or thereabouts. You can find the whole book online at: http://cyberjournal.org/cj/fresia/ rkm ============================================================================
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