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Tag Archives: The Matrix
Déjà Vu All Over Again
The Matrix, resurrected By John Semley Source: The Baffler MIDWAY THROUGH 1999’S THE MATRIX, Keanu Reeves’s hacker-cum-cyberpunk-messiah Neo sees a black cat shivering in a doorway. Then, he sees it again. “Woah,” he utters, in that trademark, flat Keanu Reeves way. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged biotechnology, Carrie-Anne Moss, corporate media, culture, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, Keanu Reeves, Lana Wachowski, popular entertainment, Postmodernism, Science fiction, society, Technocracy, technology, The Matrix, The Matrix Resurrections
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Big Brother in Disguise: The Rise of a New, Technological World Order
By John Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 It had the potential for disaster. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged AI, Dystopia, George Orwell, Google, Internet of Senses, Internet of Things, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, The Matrix, tyranny, VR
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Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State
By John W. Whitehead Source: Activist Post “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick Red pill or … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, elites, Film, Geopolitics, internet freedom, Law, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, Big Brother, culture, Dystopia, Facebook, George Orwell, Google, Internet of Things, Nicholas Carr, NSA, police state, Ray Kurzweil, Social Media, society, surveillance state, technology, The Matrix, Thought Police, Transhumanism
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IS REALITY A HOLOGRAM?
By Jonathan Davis Source: Waking Times You may be aware of the fact that tech billionaire Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX is now publicly stating his belief that it is mathematically impossible in a practical sense, that we are not … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Spirituality
Tagged Alan Watts, Aśvaghoṣa, Bill Hicks, Frijof Capra, Henry Stapp, Holographic Universe, Irwin Schrödinger, Maya, Neils Bohr, Nicola Tesla, Philosophy, Reality, Reductionaism, Rumi, science, spirituality, The Matrix, Thomas S Kuhn
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Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix.
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program that has … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Conspiracy, culture, Dystopia, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Authoritarianism, Consciousness, culture, Economics, Narrative, Oligarchs, Philosophy, propaganda, psychopaths, social control, society, The Matrix
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Decoding a Fake Reality
By Rosanne Lindsay Source: Waking Times Reality is a program of beliefs we decode: Disease equals Health Fake news equals Truth Wars equal Peace Uniformity equals Unity State-granted rights equal human rights Slavery equals Freedom. All is illusion. As our … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Beliefs, Big Pharma, Consciousness, Education, Health, Holographic Universe, Illusion, Perception, Philosophy, politics, Reality, Spirit, The Matrix
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