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The Idea of Real

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There are many representations of a simulated ‘life’ in movies and fictional ideas, or at least where that is where they used to be. It seems these days, and possibly for a while, that the idea is not contained within just the thought of a simulation, it has instead escaped and created its own. People now talk about (or at least online they do), about how real life has become a simulated version of what it once was, as discussed in Virtually Real Life. But this article is more a second instalment to Sim City, where I briefly mention some of the films listed here as a point of reference, but shall do so again with a bit more of why they are important for their representation of the idea.

The Matrix – the quintessential go to now when discussing that simulation, and in fact, people now use that word instead, talking about how we are all ‘stuck in The Matrix’. Programs exiled (prison), replicating of their own accord (breeding) – all bound within a simulated reality (society). I can see why it gets likened to it. Did it get its idea from society, or did society get its ideas from there?

The Island – Clones for spare body parts, developed and ‘born’ straight into adulthood and kept in a simulated reality with holograms and lies. A conditioned and monitored existence, farming them for their ultimate purpose as replacement parts. Just a side-step over to what we have now, and getting closer all the time, as discussed in such articles as Perhaps and Med Bed or Death Pod.

Free Guy – programs that ‘evolve’ and create life, also in a simulated reality. Set in a game, like Ready Player One but that was about people on the outside saving that outside, while on the inside. Hackers being in a similar vein although earlier, but thwarting real life villains and plans, by just playing on the computer. I think War Games might be the ultimate one there though, inadvertently causing a disaster instead of discovering it. And I guess an upgrade on Lawnmower Man, although that was a human who ended up integrated and became part of it, so maybe not.

Dark City – simulated reality, memories swapped like a ‘reincarnation’ process, but the city and all its inhabitants and their experiences based on those memories, so that there is something tangible about them. But they are jumbled and distorted, with no-one really knowing who they are, where they are or where they are from, and just getting on with that as if it has always been so. It’s a strange film, and quite disturbing really.

And I always then start thinking of the Orphan trains, mentioned in A Train of Thought – where I wonder about it being a collective start or a cover story. Is it possible that, too, is a false reality that started the simulation? We were given a collective story about a flood, next time a ‘black plague’, the next batch were told of a war, a natural disaster, a godly smiting, a virus, and so on. Where each time memories resurface or a knowing comes back, it’s time to shake it up again, to cause confusion and mayhem like in So Simple, to stop people having time to think, to settle or to look beyond what has been laid out in front of you. And maybe there isn’t anything else to know, and we are just where we are through good old fashioned fate and fortune, we shall see…

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As It Seems

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Again, this one is based purely on what I see ‘on the internet’, one of my speculatory and theoretical ideas. Crossing over into a number of previously written articles, as does happen. Threads weaving themselves together in this rather bizarre tapestry being created.

The footage was run of the mill and a newer version of a previously viewed scenario. ‘Fighting age men’ being shown in a cafeteria or ‘mess hall’, smiling, having their three meals a day and luxuries to keep them happy, secure, and entertained. With even a casual (apparently in jest) comment from Edwina Curry about the possible need for brothels to be provided for these groups.

And when I have glanced at the footage before and read the comments, it does indeed appear to be a ‘backup army’ of sorts. Which is where a flag went up. Everything is so neat, the footage, the stories, the presentation of it. How many things ‘appear’ as they are meant to, but are indeed quite different.

To put it bluntly, my view this time was the idea of a turkey farm, where they fatten the birds up before Christmas. The care, the attention, the fawning over your new ‘subjects’ and treating them like gold. And of course, it could well be that they are indeed a mercenary force, waiting for the time and signal to cause extra mayhem and fear.

Yet, given what else we have seen of late with the ideas of organ harvesting, also covered in Perhaps, I couldn’t unsee it. Those warehouses for the living dead weren’t rows of pods anymore. They were villages, towns, and cities. And these ‘new arrivals’ seem like they would be a perfect source for that, all in their set areas, being fed the food they want you to eat, keeping you healthy and fit. And as mentioned in And The Purpose Is? As well as Moving People Around and The IPA’s, would anyone notice if a few hundred migrants went missing? Or more? With all the relocations, separations, and confusion around Who’s Who? and from where, it seems certain opportunists would take advantage of that. And no-one would notice or care because we are on high alert from potential looming threats we are told about and shown. Or given just enough information to form an opinion about its projected path, completely overlooking or ignoring its actual trajectory or potential for it to go that way. But like I have said before, all could be exactly as it seems, and there is no need at all for thoughts of a grisly or sinister nature, perhaps I’m just cynical. Either that, or I’m not quite cynical enough, we shall see…

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What Do You Know?

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Information and knowledge. Never has there been a time when it seemed more important, and it always might have been that way in some format, to have accurate information, truthful accounts and records, and to receive things as they were intended. But given what have and are seeing around us at the moment, I am sure it was always that way. Either trying to make sure correct information got through, while simultaneously having other methods in play to keep the real information hidden. All adding to the Jigsaw of Life of course, but also meaning it takes an awful lot longer to actually learn what you might need to, which will be different for each person by their own definition. And we are told that we all need to go to school, to go through that formal establishment of education, where they tell you what you need to learn and you come out the other end, Institutionalised in some way ready for the game of society they have prepped and primed you for. But instead of it being for the industrious society we were told it was for, and was perhaps for the previous generation, now we have something more akin to The Beautiful Mice situation, where it has become some strange social experiment gone quite wrong.

Information has now been weaponised, distorted and is being repackaged as ‘data’ and is now the be all and end of everything, apparently. The internet doing a marvellous job of creating what we thought was going to be a treasure trove of facts and records, anything you could ever want to know, all in one handy place. Sounds so naive, doesn’t it? But I bought the lie, thinking it was great at first, how handy and convenient to have access to everything. Then you start to think about it, and realise it was a very foolish move to just believe ‘the internet’, and because it was in print it must be factual. Even genuine things are updated, and change as the years and decades go on, so a book you read from a hundred years ago, may not have the correct information, and later editions update this. But if you are reading a first or early edition, how would you know?

It seems though, it has always been easy to fabricate or eradicate anything that are no longer required or poses a potential problem in the updating of ‘facts’ and when a new set of rules or ideals is being implemented. Much has been overwritten, rewritten, destroyed or hidden over the centuries in the pursuit of whatever purpose it was for, with violence and fear and possible a few strategic fires here and there to keep it all ‘as it should be’. But someone always remembers, and people talk, luckily, so things would have still remained in the knowledge of some people, perhaps being handed down, told as stories eventually with threads of the original truth still there, making their way sometimes into myth and legend, as can happen with oral and verbal telling’s.

And from that, we clearly must understand that although we as people have a great capacity to remember, we also have a problem with lies and exaggeration. And wonderful as our imaginations might be, occasionally they stray and may not be the most reliable ‘source’. Yet, these days, we have extra obstacles to this with the Madela Effect mentioned in Hard Copy and Memory, and deliberate disinformation being used in media circles, there is much to work through. Needing to know what is relevant, what to assimilate or ignore, and protect your own psychological self from the ideas put there to distract or harm you. With plenty of Missing information to keep people guessing and keeping them limited in their capacity to know things. Perhaps it’s all been so messy and inaccurate for so long, some people do not care anymore If Truth Be Told, and what’s real or did or didn’t happen at any point. Limited in their ability to understand the bigger picture and don’t employ critical thinking skills, or are not one to look back or ‘dwell in the past’ as we call it with no retrospective thought applied. To mull over what you think you know, to wonder how you came to know it, and ask yourself, is it something that you really know at all…

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