This is Not The Matrix: Which is More Unreal?

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Which is More Unreal?

Mark Steyn in the Orange County Register offers the answer to this rhetorical question when evaluating the speeches of President Obama and Moamar Gadhafi at the U.N. this week:

Barack Obama is not to blame for whichever vagary of United Nations protocol resulted in the president of the United States being the warm-up act for the Lunatic-for-Life in charge of Libya. But it is a pitiful reflection upon the state of the last superpower that, when it comes to the transnational mush drooled by the leader of the free world or the conspiracist ramblings of a terrorist pseudo-Bedouin running a one-man psycho-cult of a basket-case state, it's more or less a toss-up as to which of them is more unreal.

Read the entire article here.

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Why the Matrix?

Existence is not an imperfect shadow of some greater, unknowable reality. And you are not a brain in a vat controlled by a mad scientist who can manipulate your reality and cause a rock at the same time to be a chicken. We live in a world of objective facts. The physical world has an established nature. And so do human beings. This blog is dedicated to the nature of things in reality -- to human action in the physical context of the world as it exists.

No one can amend or repeal the iron law of cause and effect. Actions have consequences. Here we explore and shine the light of day on the actions and consequences in the economy and in the broader culture in North America and globally.

The movie, The Matrix, is an excellent illustration of how the brain-in-a-vat theory in philosophy works. It is a well-executed fantasy. But existence is real and objective and we must choose on our own as individuals to deal with it or not. Such is our nature.