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Today's MFT-VFU Foundation Course Interactive Study Logs for July 18-22:
Q.: Getting Out of the Matrix?
Suggested course readings : Niel Postman - "Amusing Ourselves to Death" and others
Lecture Notes: George Kasey - “The Matrix” is not a metaphor but a reality...
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Excerpts From E-mail to g7 & Bcc et al :
...the condos (in Victoria not as high as in Toronto -yet!) are like cancer, the visible symptoms of the brave new overpopulated world and the virtual reality games etc.) are part of that world
...People in cement boxes need places to go, so the boxes have a cable attached and now they can get inside there machine and cocoon.
...We can pretend that we live in the bushes and hope it will all go away, or we can surf it and maybe change the tide.
... faith can move mountains.
"..Though i walk through the valley of condos i shall fear no evil..."
Like it or not, if we "accept the world on the worlds terms", as we need to do to keep our serenity
...Then we must accept that in the present time, we are a society of media addicts living in virtual reality
...Even if we are playing with commodity fetishes just as trinkets on our mantle, or books in our book shelf, or have dived totally into the machine head and shoulder
...The fact is we are living in a technological world and we are either swimming or drowning in the sea of junk that it generates
...That is the reality and we cannot deny it and stay sane.
So we can study it like an artist and see how it works ..Use what we can an discard the rest. These things are all artifice and man made art after all and so when i study computers i see the ART (design) like a surgeon studies an X-ray.
Technology (Scientism) is the religion of the Day
...It is wise to know what the Romans are doing in Rome if you are living there. Some times, it may save your butt, if you pretend to be doing what the Romans are doing while in Rome
Religion is Art and Art is religion.
I.e.: I do not drive a car, but i know how to. When i need to i can rent one and drive out of the city or i can hitchhike too....but it is nice to know i have a choice...and the more choices you have in a techno-emergency the better your chances of survival.
Getting out of the Matrix is about rising consciousness and embracing the reality as it is, not in hiding from it or attempting to run away from it or in denying that it even exists. Most people are in complete denial of their total dependency on the machine. When every salad we eat was planted by a robot ...Who wants to admit total powerlessness.
With the guidance of your H.P. you can pass through and surf the labyrinth of technology and come through on the other side, no matter how daunting it may appear at first.
FEAR:
F.ace E.verything A.nd R.ecover
not
F.**k E.verything A.nd R.un
De schooling is the first part of de-design
...but knowing the established design helps to dismantle it
...if you can surf it..you can use it and not get used by it.
Use It Well.
So i sent these clues so you can file them and look at them when and if your H.P. says that you are ready. The techno domination will not go away just because we hide our eyes from it...even our substance addictions are part of that domination and we are learning one day at a time that as long as we are using machine made synthetics we cannot stay free
...It is like an invasion of alien robots and you need to know what they like to eat for breakfast to disconnect them
...Like self defense
...It is good to know what a Squanfkdsim is capable of before you park yourself in front of one...these things byte.
There have been many occasions that i have been able to reach a humanoid ( especially the children now ...That talk tech talk now before they can speak English) and help it disengage itself from the machine that it was hard wired lie a barnacle into its brain and sucking life energy out of it like a mechanical leach.
We think just because we do not use the technology that it does not effect our lives ...We are wrong ...everything we do...eat sleep and drink ... is controlled by these machines and the more you know about them the more you an see them working in your life and be vigilant of them to protect yourself.
So when you see these new prison condos with the cable virtual reality wires in them going up all around, you you can just look at the beast right in the eye and say ..."who are you...you have no power over me! Get thee behind me..." and walk on.
These game links that i found useful in my study - artists "studio" = study- in order to see these things as they are and how they are working in our lives. i wanted to share them with you, so that you could see this too:
i.e.: The four worlds in "Myst" represent the four technological ages of the modern world, is a fine visualizing "educational tool", that also instructs in the arts of consumerism ...you cannot get out of the "Labyrinth of Technology " without purchasing a manual ...Do our children need to know these lessons in order to become "educated" consumers ?
"The Sims" is likewise about "made to order" consumer self images and routines, which the man-machine simulants are attached to - like good consumers must be 24/7? - and are activated upon purchase. These simulations are very revealing metaphors about our media dependencies and the way the technological matrix , which is not a metaphor, effects our lives.
But as i wrote before, use them only when you are ready to study the programming of these systems and under grace from your H.P. ...think of them as "GI Jane" and "Chatty Cathy dolls" that people can, or might have to, live in. HA HA ...You have to laugh to keep from crying.
...These are the 360 degree 3D monitors for virtual reality and they really do simulate the "real world" ...but when i see people with their heads into a TV monitor or some junk novel ..what is the difference ...they are sucked in and their brains are being sucked out .
"THEY"- "the dis-ease establishment", AKA "Dope inc."
http://www.wlym.com/pdf/iclc/dopeinc1978.pdf
those that are in the business of "farming humanity" - know that "the sicker we are the more we need simulants" and "the greater the numbers, the greater the misery & the greater the misery, the greater the profits" ...So can we "engineer" around that one?
Getting out of the Matrix?
God grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to ...
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/media_free/v22n04-05/serenity.wav
See Also : Media Anonymous
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