Posted by araucaria
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I am posting this here, as it would be off-topic on Observer’s What controls the hologram? thread, which is another search for ‘objective evidence’, which of course I don’t have. Rather than derail that thread, allow me to use the sidetrack of the Here & now, which I personally consider to be the main line to where we’re heading. Here we don’t bring theories to the table to argue over, we bring people together to chat, often playfully, about whatever comes into our heads. Tongue-in-cheek is not frowned upon.
Posted by observer
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The following is a re-editing of a popular image that can be found in the reference links (below).
This is Observer’s diagram in his opening post. I took issue with the vertical line, now I want to take issue with the whole diagram. In my opinion it is a matrix-eye view of the matrix. According to this view, there is no spoon, but a hologram of one. I think we want to know who/what made/is projecting the hologram only as long as we have fun bending spoons. Who/what? imo is not the right question, and David Icke’s idea of a ‘force’ ‘feeding’ on us (mentioned in the thread) is probably not the most helpful answer either.
In the Bioy Casares novella I mentioned in both threads (
The Invention of Morel), the Who? switches from the original perpetrator to the ‘victim’, who rewrites the whole script to suit himself. How this is done is a narrative trick. He simply says he finds the switch to the machinery, but as someone who has never fully got the hang of a VCR
, I would need to know a little more than that. At the higher level where the reader operates, the perpetrator and the victim are like characters from a Robert Heinlein story, ‘By his Bootstraps’ in which there is only one character, a time-traveller who keeps meeting himself (there is another one as well that has been quoted recently on the forum). Here the ‘victim’ as narrator has made the whole thing up: there is no workable machinery, no machinery at all in fact – except words on the page. And ultimately the narrator-perpetrator and the reader-victim merge, with the disappearance of even the machinery of words on the page. There is only me here, doing a little thought experiment all by myself.
I would therefore like to suggest a different model of what I think is going on, from the ‘I am/We are all that there is’ viewpoint. In this model, there ain’t no matrix…
araucaria’s Leaky Watering-can Universe
A watering-can is a device to control/guide a flow of energy (water) – in through the top and out through the spout on the front. Imagine this watering-can developing a leak (whether from the inside or the outside is immaterial): the energy flow is partly diverted downwards, negligibly so at first until at some point it starts interfering with the usefulness of the device. This is ‘a bad thing’ because while my shoes are getting soaked my potted plants are drying out. The only force involved here is natural: gravity, and no one is really benefitting (unless my shoes are getting cleaned
).
The natural reaction is
not to look for a culprit: a leaky watering-can is probably just suffering from wear-and-tear, and the likely suspect would have to be the user anyway. The natural reaction would be to accept that it is broken and needs fixing. Or does it?
From a ‘hyperdimensional’ standpoint, I am all that is: the water energy, the watering-can, its designer/maker, the wet shoes, the dry plants, and a whole lot more besides. To realize this is to think, ‘What am I doing trying to mend a leaky watering-can, when
I can make it rain?!’ And, ‘Hey, if I can get it to rain, I can have a proper garden instead of a few potted plants’. A watering-can after all is a very inefficient, small-time way of transferring water energy from source to destination when we can think so much bigger!
The trouble with this scenario is that it deals a body blow to at least two of our pet theories. One of course, as implied by the above, is the idea that exposing conspiracies is the way to awakening people to these conspiracies and thereby overcoming making the world a better place. I would suggest that this is very likely mistaken. Understanding the matrix is the ultimate way of being entrapped in the matrix, it is just another illusion. There will always be another outside controller controlling the controllers. This is the symbolism of the topless pyramid: endless hierarchy.
An interesting read on the idea that conspiracy theory is bad for your health is Umberto Eco’s
Foucault’s Pendulum, or failing that, this review of the book by Anthony Burgess, the author of
A Clockwork Orange.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/0...-pendulum.html
Another pet theory that we need to forget about is the idea that we have to ‘save our beautiful planet’ (as Bill was saying the other day), a difficult proposition, I know, but to think that the Earth is somehow more real than anything else I fear is clutching at straws. We can readily conceive of distant Saturn as being the headquarters of the matrix, we would be happy to wave goodbye to the Moon as it sets off back to wherever it came from, but we still cling to the soil under our feet. I am talking here about the Earth as the illusion that appears to our five senses (and maybe to more than those). The Real Earth, which some call the New Earth, is to the rain as the present one is to the leaky watering-can. Rain is a part of the living cycle of nature, the watering-can is technology gone bust, as it always does. If this present Earth is possibly based on the reality of a living planet, dismantling and repairing – or even upgrading – our poor technology is a very poor imitation. As a ‘living’ being, our Earth may be no more than an overused dead version, mockup or hologram that we have been dissecting in anatomy class. There are limits to dissection, the main ones being incompleteness and lifelessness. You can always try artificial respiration on a cadaver, but I wouldn’t expect the patient to respond…
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