Simulation theory is the hypothesis that says what people perceive as reality is actually an advanced, hyper-realistic computer simulation. It sounds like the basis for a cheesy science fiction story, but serious people think seriously about it. This post in Scientific American covers the basics. The very short version is something similar to what was presented in The Matrix series of films, just without the killer computer programs hunting humans who have managed to escape the simulation.
This idea is not new. In fact, it may be one of our oldest weird ideas, if you think of Plato’s allegory of the cave as a stab at simulation theory. It seems that humans have always known that at the minimum we are of two minds. There is the mind that attempts to comprehend objective reality and the other mind that contextualizes reality into things like social order, culture, history, and tradition. Culture is an artificial reality of sorts, but it is often more real to us than objective reality.
The obvious question is how could we tell if we are in a simulation? If the beings running the simulation have fooled us for this long, then surely, they have the ability to hide evidence of their handiwork. On the other hand, maybe there is evidence all around us, but we were initially coded to not be good at noticing it. As we have evolved, we have gotten better at noticing, so perhaps our evolutionary arc is that we finally reach the point where we notice the simulation.
Some people suggest that the drive toward creating artificial intelligence and virtual reality is evidence that we live in a simulation. If humans can create a reality with conscious beings inside of it, then it stands to reason that other intelligence species have reached the same point and we are their creation. That would mean they are a creation of some other species and so on and so on. In other words, “reality” is simulations all the way down.
That still leaves us with the problem of knowing we live in a simulation. One bit of evidence would be limits or shortcuts in the universe. There is some process, for example, that works, despite violating the laws of physics that prevent other similar processes from working. Maybe we find some part of the universe that seems to be off-limits to our observations. We build a super powerful telescope and finally see that door with the sign on it that reads, “No Entry.”
The thing is though, this approach assumes we have correctly noticed everything to this point and have not yet found the evidence we seek. Another way of looking at it is that maybe we have not reached the level of noticing to see the evidence that is all around us in our daily lives. The Mandela Effect is the observed phenomena where large numbers of people believe something false to be true. There are dozens of examples where lots of people collectively share a false memory.
Maybe our brains have been coded to contextualize reality in such a way that anomalies are filtered out along with other useless junk. For example, millions of Trump haters are slowly coming around to the idea that the Trump assassination attempt is a false memory. Facebook is removing the iconic images of Trump raising his fist on stage with blood running down his face. It will not be long before these people are sure it never happened and call it a conspiracy theory.
Along the same lines, we have the Russia Collusion Hoax, which these same people swore was real, but now they swear it never happened at all. The same people who made up that hoax have convinced most of the world that Hunter Biden never owned a laptop and if he did, it was planted in that computer shop by the same people who rigged the 2016 election for Trump. Remember Covid? Of course not, as it never happened, and only crazy people think otherwise.
The Covid event is rather good evidence of one of those systemic shortcuts that point to this being a simulation. For months much of the world literally stopped going to work and yet the economy did not collapse. Everything we thought we knew about the workings of a modern economy said such a thing would plunge the world into a dark age, yet nothing changed all that much. Food got more expensive, but it somehow managed to get on the shelves.
Probably the biggest anomaly that has been at the center of politics for twenty years is the election of Barak Obama. To this day no one can say with confidence that he was born in the United States. In addition to his murky backstory, his total lack of qualifications to do anything, much less be president, should have relegated him to obscurity, but in violation of two hundred years of past practice, it was an asset in his campaign for the White House.
We are seeing another one of these political paradoxes. In 2020 Kamala Harris was as popular as rectal cancer. Despite having more money than any other candidate, she was never able to get any interest. Now, all of a sudden, she is anointed as the favorite to win the November election. As with Obama, we are seeing a violation of rules that have been predictive for many generations. Perhaps what we are really seeing is one of those shortcuts used by the programmers.
The larger point here is that what we are seeing makes no sense in the context of the rules we think govern human society. The reason no one talks about the economy anymore is it no longer makes any sense. The lunacy of the political media that has become the norm is not an effort to warp our sense of reality, but a reflection of the spaghetti code that is generating political media. The simulation is shaking itself to bits because of an accumulation of bugs and bug fixes.
Of course, we know what happens when a software system becomes so buggy that it can no longer be trusted. At least we think we know. You wipe the system and begin with a new code base. When a business reaches a point where it can no longer be reorganized, it is wiped out in what we call bankruptcy. A human society that reaches the point where the bugs are too numerous to fix, like the bad software, it is wiped out in what we call a revolution. We may be at that point.
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All that proves is that most people are effectively useless.
And that the infusion of enormous fiat currency, while generating inflation, doesn’t crash the economy.
Yep, all the people I know working in jobs that keep the lights on didn’t miss a single day of work. New Jorkers though, they’re pretty much useless so them all locking down didn’t hurt much. Keep in mind the lockdowns were most strict in the blue states. Which goes to show just how useless they really are.
Rando: “Keep in mind the lockdowns were most strict in the blue states. Which goes to show just how useless they really are.” And yet the populations of the blue states [and the blue counties] exert monopolistic legalistic control over pretty much the entirety of the nation. We can’t even reliably trust the likes of Gorsucks nor Kloberts nor Phaganaugh nor Homely-Barret; they’re simply blues masquerading in red skin suits. Reds create. Blues co-opt. Active Aggression. Passive Aggression. Our problem is that we are trying to fight the Blues on their turf [surreality], whilst abiding by their rules [amorality &… Read more »
Never got one day off. Was nice driving on empty streets though.
That was the best.
I enjoy the Matrix and other Sci fi stories, but I’m 99% sure the World is real, and as we perceive it is also real, true the human senses only see a small spectrum of what’s possible, but that doesn’t make it all fake
BTW the great thing about the Matrix, is they only made one film, and resisted the urge to do any sequels, I admire that
One of my absolute favorite moments in human history. Samuel Johnson being asked about the sermon postulating what we experience isn’t reality. He kicked a rock and said “I refute it thus…”
If you did conclude we live in a simulation
What would you do differently?
the inability for an individual to discern reality is a definition of insanity.
when an entire culture can no longer discern reality …. well, there are historical examples.
Perfect.
BTW the great thing about the Matrix, is they only made one film, and resisted the urge to do any sequels, I admire that
and I admire your sarcasm
Yeah, I missed that (sarcasm). Thanks. Seems the “rule” applies, “Any popular and profitable film will continue to spawn more and more sequels until the last sequel loses money!”
Perhaps each successive Matrix film is actually a mere simulacrum embedded in the previous film…
The whole concept is ridiculous. Even if it were true and we could prove it, it changes nothing. We’re still real to us. The world is still real to us.
Yes. I made a comment here once that the UFO (or UAP if you prefer) thing is an attempt by the superbeings who have created the phenomenological world to apply local patches to tie up the loose ends. But I kinda wasn’t being serious. The truth is that this is a cope people who tend to unbelief employ to address the problem of God’s seeming indifference to human suffering. Just like our selective news media ignore the things they prefer not to talk about, these Believe in the Science people selectively ignore that this problem was solved two thousand years… Read more »
This, a perfect example of what I’m talkin’ bout. The short-circuit caused by monotheism. One will start out Merton and then go full Icke in the worst cases. By “short-circuit”, I mean the search for a Source, a First Mover, a magician outside the aquarium. Even ‘simulation’, like ‘intelligent design’, is a viewpoint and order centered around an alpha male. Its first axiom is that everything fell together all at once, rather than note by note. One of the questions is how to explain such a magical beginning. It’s natural, a part of primate neural processing. I get that, it… Read more »
Frankly, I understood virtually nothing of that. It really gets back to choosing what you believe. The genius of Christianity is that it does offer the believer a bit of relief from suffering. Whether Christianity is a cultural adaptation to a hardwired human need, I don’t know. No other religion offers this path though. (Maybe Buddhism to a lesser degree but on a more intellectual level which isn’t satisfying to most.) There is physical suffering and there is emotional suffering. Both can be either temporary or chronic. Temporary pain/suffering is an adaptive response necessary to life itself. Christianity doesn’t offer… Read more »
I don’t buy therapy one bit. To the extent talking with someone can alleviate suffering, we have friends and family. We’ve been so atomized and isolated that people resort to a paid “friend.”
One bottle of Escitalopram is worth more than the entire oeuvre of Freud.
I feel you absolutely nailed it.
I call this vague spiritual suffering of today, materialist horror. I picked that up from Michel Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles and although the guy is a typical French freak, he really nails the ennui in his descriptions of modern life.
I’m a big fan of any mention of Merton which includes ‘short circuit’. For a brief moment he was the Current Thing.
The part of the Matrix that makes the least sense is of course the whole “humans as bio-batteries” trope. It’s a brazen violation of the laws of physics (humans consume energy, not generate it). What it did for the movies though, is provide a reason for the AIs to refrain from just slaughtering the humans. It’s too bad they didn’t put more thought into working out a reason for that.
Nah, it can work. It does violate the conservation of energy, but we break that all the time. Coal and NG have double (or triple) the energy the electricity generated from coal and NG has. Electricity is more convenient than coal or natural gas if we want to watch TV, for example. The majority of the energy is lost to waste heat in coal fired generating stations, though it can be better in a modern gas fired power plant. Humans can turn corn and other vegetation into usable energy. Now, it would probably be more efficent to just burn it… Read more »
The analogy works if you assume people can be split into two groups:
host and parasite. For parasites, the host works as a battery, even if the host has to find energy themselves through e.g. food.
Amusingly enough in the Matrix most people would actively fight the unplugged as indeed for them the Matrix is real.
Most people are better off assuming the cosmos is real. There is only a small minority that personally benefits from being able to unplug.
Those types are referred to the Meek and they are the human equivalent of black holes, i.e. complete rejection and destruction of the cosmos.
This. Our senses do no perceive everything and chop things into separate pieces within a linear temporal framework.
They don’t see the whole picture, but they’re not meant to be wrong. They can be abjectly wrong when a brain/mind/soul is faulty.
The problem they have with pretending these things never happened is that some of the people they broke keep reminding everyone about them. Hillary still runs around claiming Russia and Doug Mackey stole the election from her. Once every few days you still see a lunatic wearing a mask in public sometimes even outdoors. I am really curious to see if they can keep this astroturfed enthusiasm for Kamala going through November. Clips from her rally last night were comically bad, and the VP talk is all about finding a bland white guy to reassure whites it is ok to… Read more »
Word is Kamala-lala-dingdong hasn’t even filed the paperwork to run. She’s smoke ( no pun intended) and a placeholder until the dem convention. The plan is to keep the pubs guessing and wasting money and foist their actual candidate upon us with little time left to expose him / her / it / them before November.
“Now, all of a sudden, she is anointed as the favorite to win the November election. As with Obama, we are seeing a violation of rules that have been predictive for many generations. Perhaps what we are really seeing is one of those shortcuts used by the programmers.” No, all you are really seeing is more of the schemes and machinations of the Jews. The reason that it all seems to keep getting crazier and crazier is that they keep consolidating more and more full-spectrum power; that, and their Operation Destroy America plan is gaining momentum as it rolls faster… Read more »
Oops! I want to take my thumbs up back; I went back and read your comment. I missed that sentence blaming it on the Jews. But I like the part that comes after that.
I’d be interested in hearing a rational analysis of how nearly all of America’s systemic problems don’t have a Jewish origin. One that doesn’t involve paranoia and special pleading. For instance, you do realize that the worse-than-worthless Obama was not some surreal historic aberration as the OP implies, but rather an entirely Jewish creation, a high-end version of that notorious Jewish creation, the weaponized negro. Armenians are market-dominant minorities too but they don’t mastermind the destruction of American cities and they don’t manipulate the government to start wars with Turkey. As a result people don’t go around blaming their troubles… Read more »
It’s a consequence of their half-formed minds, Zulu. There’s a reason I call them the broken branch. The bridge between Erectus emosocial breeder hindbrain instincts and Sapiens frontal neocortex rationale is just too far. They’re mulattos, they’ll never “get” what we get.
Such creatures have levered their way to unprecedented influence, we have schizophrenic autistics holding the steering wheel, heading for a cliff.
“they’ll never “get” what we get”
Herpes?
RamzPaul has a video this morning that said Kamala’s campaign paid 1,000 influencers $500 a piece to attend her rally in Atlanta. They got an extra $150 for holding a Kamala sign and $250 for getting interviewed on TV. This is the most astroturfed campaign in history. They are trying to make it look convincing for the vote rigging.
Watched the thing last night, there was this psycho looking white guy to her right behind her. I don’t think he ever blinked and held a sign rigid like a Vulcan death grip. Occasionally he would nod in agreement.
I wouldn’t put it past a certain person with the initials HC to have Kamala eliminated, pin it on a crazed “Trump supporter,” and then ride to the rescue as the new nominee to save the country from chaos
Harry Connick, Jr.?
Eh. Couldn’t be any worse than the rest of that fetid lot.
HC wants to be the first female President so badly that this theory is not only plausible, but a 50-50 proposition at this point.
I think it was only maybe a 1% chance initially, right up until Trump got shot. Then it went to maybe 25%. Once Brandon got overthrown, it went to 50%. The attempted assassination, followed by Brandon’s political assassination, pretty much removed the last trace of normality and lawfulness. At this point the US, politically, is an unstable Latin country with everyone trying to start their own death squad and revolution. Blue state ideologues usually think some group of hillbillies will kick off CW 2.0. It could just as easily be a bunch of ruling elite factions going “kinetic” on each… Read more »
Every few days? I work for a university and every single day see several people wearing the Moron Mask. Most of them, alas, are lower-level staff and non-white.
Most of them, alas, are lower-level staff and non-white.
Now that you mention it, that holds true in my workplace, too. I’ll take a walk after lunch, do a count and get back to you.
Trying to manufacture reality only goes so far. Heels-up-Harris is even in the polls (only if you massively over sample Democrats). Ukraine is winning the war (Ghost of Kyiv). $35,000,000,000,000.00 in debt is not a problem as a % of GDP (only if you redefine the “P” in GDP). “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality”.
What happens to mentally ill people when reality conflicts with their perceived reality? They get really really angry
Can confirm. I didn’t understand this until I saw how angry people got when I pointed out the nonsense of Covid.
I look forward to seeing reality completely crushing all them assholes.
I have met people in real life, who told me with straight faces that there were no covid lockdowns and that I am a conspiracy theorist if I think otherwise.
Then there is a second, slightly milder, group of retarded people, who claim that covid is ancient history and nobody cares anymore, so why don’t I just forget about it and move on…
I know someone who told me that the idea that anyone lost their job for refusing the shot was nonsense and didn’t happen. This same person also told me that there is no crisis at the border and it’s all made up by Fox News.
This is why I have little hope. How anyone could believe these types of things is beyond my level. They are too stupid to exist and it just makes me hate with the utmost of intensity.
As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a ‘categorical pledge’ were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week. For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes… Read more »
Oh and another thing, I have a friend who works in the mental health industry, a few times a year he will have a patient who believes 100% that they are living in the Matrix type world, or a Truman show deal
If these people never saw these movies, they would latch on to some other idea, crazy people like normal people, aren’t very original
I once went to a therapist to see if stress was the cause of my health problem. We had a conversation in which that did not seem to be an issue but I asked a general question out of curiosity. “how many of your clients are here because they fell down a rabbit hole of finding meaning from religions?” He told me it was the majority, most of which were lost in the eastern religions. I often wonder if it was the “challenging of your deepest fears and demons” that trapped them. Knowing yourself is a requirement to freedom but… Read more »
I’d postulate that there are a whole lot more people showing up for therapy because they aren’t finding meaning from religion.
Increasingly, pastors ARE therapists.
“Increasingly, pastors ARE therapists.”
Nowadays, the best of the pastors are banging all the deacons’ wives, and the worst of the pastors are molesting all the altar boys & choir boys.
HOME CHURCHING FTW
People who become wrapped up in foreign religions/spirituality should be required to GTFO and go to where that religion is primarily practiced.
We got a lotta little teenage blue-eyed groupies
who’d do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian guru
He’s showing us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy,
so we never have to be alone
Pretty good satire. Just get out.
agreed, I would add politics to that.
I worked a soup kitchen for some high school project back in the day and there was a black guy who would go here who was convinced he was a veteran of the Civil War, and he even had a half-presentable Union uniform he wore to go with the fantasy (and no, he didn’t appear to be 150+ years old).
Long Live DaQwan Jameson?
Ha ha ha. Two thumbs up. Way up.
The Truman Show deal is not that far off. Many do live in such a media created bubble. Happily. Which is largely the movie’s point (intentional or not).
Like The Matrix, The Truman Show is Gnostic heresy in movie form. Somebody, maybe Vigilant Citizen, made an in-depth study of the symbolism. Cristof is the Demiurge, and the Truman Show itself is the false ‘reality’ that imprisons the souls of Mankind (Truman=True Man) denying them spiritual enlightenment. Truman’s first real clue of his condition occurs when a light used to create the “stars” on the set falls, nearly striking him as he leaves for work. The light is clearly labeled “Sirius”– the Dog Star. Sirius is strongly linked to occult knowledge across multiple civilizations, and here it represents the… Read more »
this makes twice you’ve sent me down the memory rabbit hole – first Ambrose Bierce now Alan Parsons. Psychobabble was really the go to song on Eye in the Sky though.
I consulted all the sages I could find in Yellow Pages but There aren’t many of them…. And the Mayan panoramas On my pyramid pajamas haven’t Helped my little brother… Maybe I called the BOC thing too soon. The Alan Parsons Project was possibly even more occultic; they were just much more quiet about it. Hard to miss the Oroboros on the Vulture Culture album cover once you understand what it means, and they had a song called Oroboros on their 2022 album called…you guessed it…From The New World. I would bet vast sums that the Eye In The Sky… Read more »
Bloody excellent. Blackrock also directly refers to the Black Rock or Black Cube, themselves esoteric Saturn messaging.
Many examples, from the tephilim on a rabbi’s head to the Kaaba in Mecca, or to the devil’s own equity fund itself.
For the unfamiliar, Saturn is Judaic, Apollo/Mercury is Aryan.
Interesting. I’ll have to delve into that a bit more. Cheers!
If you enjoy deep dives, I strongly recommend Salt Radio Ministries on YouTube. Her website is gone but all her vids are there. Brilliant, very well edited and researched and proof positive that these weird beliefs are threaded throughout the culture, from movies to TV to CERN to the UN. This one is pertinent to today’s essay (CERN, the Simulation and Many Worlds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH_9knlOk
Thanks! Will do!
Speaking of Kamala Harris and her inexplicable rise, am I the only one who found it strange that as a childless woman at the age of 50 she marries Doug Emhoff? Probably one of her donors told her that if she had ambitions for higher office she had to have a spouse. OK, but why Emhoff? What’s in it for him? He’s a previously marries, affluent entertainment lawyer in L.A. who presumably could have his pick of younger, more attractive, not to mention more pleasant women. Was he offered some kind of deal, e.g. he could cheat as he pleased,… Read more »
Well he does seem to like to spend time with his homosexual buddies. Just sayin.
Dude also has a strange looking and behaving daughter.
Why did you do that to me.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f583aec8b3671997&sxsrf=ADLYWIJ9Cp6YhHrhvKywhsG6iSAkeHY0sg:1722466135848&q=ella+emhoff&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3J5MIFhvnvU242yFxzEEp3BekApeLFCP-yt1rlLqzmhw_pq1oQITeiV0vJQuCi5LEHeNV0Z9088dny7D_9gMaG0mt_lIrDDm_ELiQoL0lMV3NK91tjNTKeuaj2B6i2L-uZhhrck3Isv2fq1VhwbQ0w2HyHNI8qVJaTVILR3iERxmpBKH0Ng&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFu6ixrtKHAxWJG9AFHef5Nz0QtKgLegQIDxAB&biw=1745&bih=828&dpr=1.1
And surprisingly, that daughter just got a top-line modeling contract.
Anyone who wishes to refute suspicion can say merely “You can’t explain love.” To which there is no rejoinder.
When I’ve heard him speak he sounds to me like a homo trying to sound masculine. There’s a shakiness in his voice as if he’s trying to suppress something. Could just be my imagination.
“You can’t explain love.” To which there is no rejoinder.
“Ah, so you ARE in a lavender marriage!”
Anyone who wishes to refute suspicion can say merely “You can’t explain love.” To which there is no rejoinder.
I disagree. The first question is always “So, what do you see in this guy/this gal?” Watch if they equivocate in their answer. 😏
Whether this is a beard situation or not, marriages of convenience probably date back to the age of the Pharaohs. He’s getting SOMETHING out of this we aren’t seeing, money slushing in, access to power, etc.
The problem is they get accustomed to giving the answer. OTOH the repetition might make the list might come out like reciting a shopping list.
A new royal tradition. American politicians (and their families) are increasingly marrying their “minders.” The lucky ones get a dragon-lady spy, but typically it’s just some Jew. Public-image marriages—Obama wearing Mike as blackface, the Weiner/Abedin Abraham Accord, etc.—are on the way out, as the public is more openly defied/ruled. Vance shows typical GOP clumsiness. On the traditional PR side his marriage signals “outbreeder” against his obvious faggotry—but also he’s submitting to a race designated for rule, à la the Biden kids all marrying Jews. So he disgusts everybody but it’s on an instinctive level they can’t or aren’t allowed to… Read more »
Vance was expecting to be Nikki Haley’s VP after Trump got bumped off.
he is just dong his job . from wikipedia : “He is also the first Jewish spouse of an American president or vice president.”
Guess Emhoff is agreeing to take one for the tribe. Unfortunately for Emhoff, Jared got the better assignment.
I would guess that maybe 30% of “marriages” among the rich and famous are totally fake and were created purely for careerist or political reasons. It’s not a new phenomenon. European royalty used to marry just to cement alliances between nations.
Rather than a simulation, I tend to attribute the events mentioned in Z-man’s post to the influence of television–the human mind has not evolved to distinguish the ‘reality’ seen on television from the reality of everyday life. Add in the demographic changes in the US population and you have a reasonably good explanation for present events.
Beat me to it, except I would add that the influence of television is waning that’s why everything seems so obviously contrived and fake.
Go ahead and downvote! 🤣
Other screens have taken over for the small screen. But the medium essentially remains the same.
The smallest screen, your cell phone, has pushed its way into competition for the TV screen, where you can now see things like blacks fighting and twerking, Israelis destroying Gaza, and the WWII history you never learned previously.
I think that’s certainly the main factor. Most of the racisms that Goodwhite people feel guilty for are fictional racisms they saw on their favorite TV shows and miniseries.
Television inculcated that undeserved guilt, alright. But so did the educational system. And the latter also had the imprimature of intellectual prestige.
Close, but “television” simply is shorthand for an overabundance of information and a limited ability to process it. This can be exploited, and it most certainly is, but can it be managed? I suspect not. Even the propagandists themselves lose the plot as The Next Big Thing sprouts up and people including them forget about The Last Big Thing. Fearmongers and strategists, to the degree they differ, dwell on the perils of EMP’s, but the idea they would limit the availability of information is in small part based on the false premise that what is available now is fully utilized.… Read more »
This comes to mind:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Karl Rove
The interactions with the Mandela Effect, which is quite real, suggest that the code is leaky and getting patched willy nilly…A building suddenly appeared in our town, which purportedly had been there for years, but which I would have seen almost every day if it had been there…
But what is actually happening, IMO, is that we are switching between almost identical timelines in the multi-verse…
I swear to this day that Dolly had braces in the original Moonraker
As Sky Man is my witness, so do I and I’ve seen that movies scores of times! I bootlegged a VHS copy off of a DVD rental many many years ago, and know I have to re-watch it. Surely, they haven’t been able to get to that!
I watched a 1960’s movie recently and I swear “they” had added some chemtrails in the background sky!
Ha ha. She certainly should have. A missed opportunity, that.
“The interactions with the Mandela Effect, which is quite real,…” I watched Billy Graham’s funeral on TV in early spring of 2007. Nothing will shake this very clear memory. I absolutely, unequivocally saw it. Then Billy Graham died in 2018. Again. Pretty sure Christopher Loyd pulled the same trick; he was dead for awhile (Blockbuster tears!) but he is currently back. By popular demand, no doubt. My personal theory is that “They” (Dum-Dum-DUUUUUM!) are running experiemnts to see just how thoroughly their media tentacles control the things people “know”. Covid was another test. I’d say they’re running at better than… Read more »
Self actualization?
I’ve always found that a quite penetrating observation. What he’s referring to is that nobody is able to see the future, no matter your academic credentials or your years of experience as a reporter. To be a stateman you must be able to act in the dark, without the light that hindsight gives you. Once you’ve acted, it’s the academics’ job to come in and explain why you did it, why you won or why you failed.
It ties in to the other Rove quote about known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Statesmen must be able to navigate unknown unknowns.
The “known unknowns” was from Rumsfeld.
Yes, thanks.
No problem. War criminals all resemble.
Saint Enoch Powell had the best comment on statesman: “The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.” Rove is not just ho, but fat ho, indeed, a fat Roveho.
Possibly. Or it could be the unhinged raving of a modern-day Ozymandius.
Rove was pretty smart. I strongly suspect it was him that made Bush say that the French had no word for “entrepreneur” – a master level troll move.
Because then you had all the usual suspects coming out mock him “Hooboy! Bush doesn’t even speak French! What a rube!”
One may be intelligent yet slightly deranged. I suspect that describes most of the Archons.
Oh, he was deranged, no argument there. All neocons were, but they were certainly history’s actors, rather than thinkers.
You’re being kind. I’ve always assumed it was pure hubris that made him say that. Not a large leap imo.
If Rove said it – prima facie it’s incorrect, inaccurate, imbecilic, incoherent…
We’ll be left to explain your stupidity, incompetence, megalomania, destructiveness, and madness.
Hubris…those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
A very interesting essay. However, rather than explain away The Great Derangement as a grand simulation on the fritz, my explanation is that the West–which basically rules humanity–sometime in the second half of the 1960s, succumbed to the irrationalist philosophy known as poststructuralism or postmodernism. Postmodernist philosophers, almost all of them explicitly anti-white racists, set about thoroughly undermining the epistemological precepts of Western civilization, which, in turn, allowed for what we often call the Satanic Inversion. Poststructuralism is effectively intellectual Satanism. And we are now living in its corresponding Hell where nothing makes sense.
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton
Being a born atheist- I can’t imagine Someone In Charge, nor the need for any such thing, I see only process- that statement was why I disagreed with our good David C. Wright long ago.
It made no sense to me. It still strikes me as some jew shouting, “Believe in our god or else!!”
But, I see the sense of it now. To center oneself around an alpha male is the deepest of primate instinct, of social organization. To ignore what we are- primates, that is- and our troupe loses all sense of direction.
When people present me with the idea that life is a simulation, I ask them “so when you die I will disappear?”
Isn’t this simulation talk solipsism on steroids ?
I look at one possibility as being a little like the broadcast spectrum. We may have different realities coexisting at the same time in the same space. We may be on Channel 6, while other realities may exist on Channels 4, 10, 28, 34 and 53. (Those are the major channels in my area.)
I have thought of that before too. It is all very interesting Yet what I have found is the only plausible way to eternity is to have children. At least some piece of you goes on forever. And if it were meant to be any other way, then I doubt we’d be programmed to breed. Another issue I take with the simulation talk, and this is more of a necessary observation that should be at least in the forefront of the conversation, is that man is always using tech to explain existence and man himself. In the early 20th century… Read more »
The real power structures in the West are: the Security Services, Intel people, various permanent bureaucrats who like in Patrick McGoohan’s “the Prisoner” converged with the Soviet model (the in-show riddle was that his character could not figure out if he was being held by his own government or the Soviets and concluded it did not matter). They are falling apart in the chaos they have themselves instigated through mass third world immigration and personal immiseration via neo-feudalism. No one is inspired by the rainbow dildo, nor drag queen story hour. Still less by having random muslims stabbing White girls… Read more »
No one is inspired by the rainbow dildo here’s a quote I am really picking out almost at random from Livys war with Hannibal. The context really is not important: Thus a great deal of money was made out of these cattle, and from the profits a column of solid gold was dedicated to the goddess (Juno). is there anything that could be done like this in America that the people would all say with pride, that’s us, thats a symbol of us? Or even in a small town, every nook and cranny of the west is under the supervision… Read more »
Absolutely, Hi-ya, it’s Star Trek.
They literally believe in a Star Trek future, that is a direct quote from my Harris-voting bestie.
Hi-ya!
Just start thinking of the North American landmass as a continent-sized Third World souk and lunatic asylum.
Things should make a lot more sense after doing that.
The Trump administration (simulation) was the canary in the coal mine. There are too many bugs in this society at every level: bureaucratic, military, political establishment, entertainment, religious institutions, educational, and medical. It can’t be fixed as a whole. Any short term reforms in one sector will soon be overwhelmed and wiped out within a matter of a few years. I was listening to David Freiheit just recently, and I believe he was right. The wheels have to come off and then the areas that are willing to do what is necessary for their freedom will emerge from the red… Read more »
Central Oregon small communities are already espousing vigilante justice to rid themselves of dangerous homeless camps because they can get no help from city or police. Portland Oregon police chief refuses to arrest homeless who have declined opportunities to go into shelters. I am reminded of the grasshopper and the ants, “oh the world owes me a living, zooma zooma zooma zoom”.
Why fret over macro-issues over which you have no influence? At best, this creates anxiety and at worst, despair. Neither of those enhance your life. Better is to focus your time and energy on becoming robust such that you may weather the coming storm (whenever it arrives) and thereby persevere to live another day. There will come a time when each of us can make a difference. Know what you will do when that time comes. Make that your lodestar.
i tend to agree. especially when accounting for infinity. men are not mentally capable to perceive the “secrets of the universe” by design. if man had access to the information requested, the infinity of the universe would be at stake. at least this way, we are limited to one world of seclusion for containment purposes. further, i lean toward the idea of “man creator”, not in god like quality’s, but in his image. any man is capable of creating his own reality. the plasticity of the mind allows for any configuration. it becomes even more interesting when considering the thoughts… Read more »
Are subsaharen blacks and like, say females, capable of such mental work? How do you explain their existence other than God must have a place for them. At least some sense of humor.
sure. the level of creating reality is not as important as the act of doing so. the sub-Saharan may pray for rain and …. eventually it rains. this supports prayer. the process comes into play as well. a westerner may find it silly to pray for rain, because the westerner is aware of drought. the westerner has moved on from praying for rain and plans to build dams to store water for droughts, displacing the sub-Saharan people. paying no mind to the culture lost or wisdom gained. the reality is constantly evolving for every individual with limitations. i believe man… Read more »
the westerner has moved on from praying for rain and plans to build dams to store water for droughts, displacing the sub-Saharan people.
no we go over and dig wells for them
Somebody web just pondered that Guatemalans or Ethiopians won’t go to heaven as Guatemalans or Ethiopians, will they? The Christians assume they’ll be remade, recast, as having different qualities from what they are now.
Conversely, thinkers like pie also speculate that the Universe needs to know what it’s like to be a broken-down addicted bum in a cardboard box, just as much as being a king, seeing a Universal Mind that records all information, all modes of existence.
i will not speculate who meets the requirement for entry to heaven. i do want to point out the fact that the broken-down addicted bum in a cardboard box is a cosmic treasure, just as the king. this is a proven fact. we walk around like we don’t know any better. there is no end to the universe, with barely a glimmer of anything living as far we have ventured. how many light years must we travel to find another broken-down addicted bum in a cardboard box? don’t get me wrong, I’m not some bleeding heart, just a realist of… Read more »
Whoever wrote the base code had a sense of humor. Most of us have empathy and could very happily live peacefully within our respective tribes. But some of our simulated people have a sociopathic desire for power and take great pleasure in ruling and or destroying others.
If this world is real, they are demons.
Try this one on for size: the simulators, really just wicked little boys, saw fit to place very different human “bugs” in the same jar and shook the hell out of it.
Hahahahaha! Gods, I am so ashamed of my six-year old self.
This simulation stuff kind of ties into your discussion of atheists yesterday. I think you hear a lot about it today because it’s kind of a pseudo-religion that’s palatable to the same ‘spergies that tend to be loudly atheistic. They wouldn’t be caught dead saying something positive about people who believe in Long-Bearded Sky Man, but they’re willing to believe and seriously boost the idea that they’re just non-material playthings of some otherworldly superbeings. The fact that they themselves are believing in a different kind of Sky Man is lost on them. The physics/math ‘spergs are particularly susceptible to this… Read more »
Well the anthropic principle is really just that we only have a sample size of one observable universe. Like folks saying God must exist because electrons have just the right amount of charge for molecules to work, but we don’t have any examples of bad universes where the physical constants are different so we can’t really say whether or not the physical constants never vary, are totally random, or God tuned it.
Absent knowledge that another universe even exists, I’m content to hypothesize based upon the knowledge of the one we do know exists.
So you’re a physicist and you make up some overly complicated convoluted theory that not only doesn’t predict anything new that hasn’t been know for 100 years but also requires scores and scores of parameters that you just have to make up values for because they can’t be measured in any way. If you futz and f@rt around making up a bunch of values for them, you can get something that kind of makes the same predictions as the accurate standard physics model that has been in use for 50+ years now. When someone asks you what possible meaning all… Read more »
science never got over the square root of -1.
Also, ploppy, forget not the unstated axiom that all those physical constants had to happen or fall into place all at once. I say no, there have been unguessable cycles of Creation, of the Big Diesel, each one proving and adding another physical constant, like a note in a symphony. The constants that didn’t prove didn’t pass to the next Cycle. I heard from a thermodynamics guy that he felt the beginning of the beginning was when all was forces, without form; then a tiny whirlpool formed, just as gravity is actually a whirlpool of time dilation, one “end” infitesimally… Read more »
The craziness is more basic than all this simulation nonsense: The rules and laws no longer apply to the elites, so they can do and say what they want: 2015: The constitution says two dudes can marry. Bruce Jenner is a girl. Trayvon Martin was a winsome teen out to buy skittles. What are you going to do about it? 2020: George Floyd was murdered. So was the Jogger. Covid will kill ya’. Vaccines are safe. Ashli Babbitt was an insurrectionist. Joe Biden won the election. What are you going to do about it? 2024: Donald Trump is guilty of… Read more »
We could do what Mr man has proposed many times: drop out. Certainly stop voting But I wonder if there is more that could (not) be done. The fantasy that whites are somehow a part of this would begin to crumble. I guess I do it by saying I’m not really a citizen of this country and proposing a secession in certain interactions. i also suggest to others that the us is really not a country at all certainly not a nation, because there needs to be some homogeneous aspect to it. The definition of the modern us is that… Read more »
“The fantasy that whites are somehow a part of this would begin to crumble.”
“You can’t say diversity is our anything because diversity screws up the definition of the word ‘our’.”
Love it, love it, love it.
Ukraine is going to WIN!
The other examples you give do apply, but this one is just wishful thinking. On the others, the elites control the outcomes, so they can manipulate as they see fit. On Ukraine, a just as powerful outside entity has a huge say so in the outcome. When Ukies lose, the resort will be to gaslighting and memory holing (What war in Ukraine? What are you talking about, we always said it was lost cause?).
“…gaslighting and memory holing”
And thus, reality will be changed. The manufactured reality, that is. Whee!
The millions of criminaliens pouring across the “border,” as well as the neverending social and political scourge that is the White Female Vote, may very well put her in the Oval Office. And I think she may be the last President this country has.
I hope I’m wrong, but the Black Pill seems to be the most viable option.
Nevermind that he said it in 2021, the cat ladies thing could motivate the cat ladies just like deplorables motivated the hoi polloi. And there sure are a lot of them nowadays.
That’s Ovary Office to you, bub.
Yes and those aliens are being coached to vote. The government has given them SS cards and the states issue them drivers licenses. That is all they need to vote. No one is going to question their residency or citizenship.
Sundance or one of his commenters notes that every government benefits office, not just the DMV, now automatically registers them and provides a ballot.
All for the Clyburn/AME ballot harvesting operation.
They no longer need a person, just a name.
“This idea is not new. In fact, it may be one of our oldest weird ideas, if you think of Plato’s allegory of the cave as a stab at simulation theory.”
All of Western philosophy is just a series of footnotes on Plato.
–Alfred North Whitehead
” I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he trusts them too deeply. I seek not death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom’s realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer’s Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live. . .Let the teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is… Read more »
“The Covid event is rather good evidence of one of those systemic shortcuts that point to this being a simulation. For months much of the world literally stopped going to work and yet the economy did not collapse.”
This did not prove the world was a simulation, it only proved that the managerial class was not necessary. Or in the parlance of the time, essential.
The simulation hypothesis is fun but I think the more realistic explanation of people being NPCs is that brains only evolve as complex as is adaptive to the environment so the most well-adapted humans are only intelligent enough to be able to function in society without thinking about anything in depth. High IQ is just an individually maladaptive mutation that keeps popping up because it benefits the group occasionally with a Newton or a Mozart.
The “rules” don’t make sense because the game is different now. Your “rules” make sense in a majority white society, with Anglo-Saxon Christian morality, and an IQ average of 100. Society is now no longer majority white. Culturally it is even further from what it used to be than brown Christian countries are today. Morally, it is the opposite of a Christian nation, at least at the elite levels. The game has changed and nobody knows how it will play out. But it might not make sense that Kamala is in first place to YOU , but look at America.… Read more »
So very this. Country’s populace is low iq, brain addled from porn, media, and drugs. Increasingly non-white who are just waiting to stick it to whites because of (not inspite of) endless welfare and open borders. They will wear America as a skinsuit then discard it eventually for their true skins. They hated us when they were minorities and will hate whites still when whites are a minority. At the top are soulless globalist who only care about dollars and cents in their pocket and are willing to play every machivelian game that exists, tell any lie, perpetrate any hoax… Read more »
Actually Trump fought back against these black journalists with aplomb. Groveling only to the degree of bragging about what he’s done for blacks.
The fact that he goes for approval, the fact we have to deal with these people at all is a big fat L.
The Trump “disappearing assassination” psyop is real, and you all should be very, very concerned about it. Give it another month and you’ll be able to talk to people who’ll deny it to your face, and you’ll be off to the conflict races. Whether this is a simulation or not, it should now be clear to any man of this time with adequate intelligence that he and his family are in danger in the years ahead. It will take some time before all of this technology is flushed out of human life, by hook or by crook. Most people simply… Read more »
Often overlooked as a reason for all of this speculation is the idea that the human brain, beliefs, and “what we know to be true” are much more elastic and open for manipulation than most people are aware of. The trickery, from within one’s own head, and from the outside, is pervasive and never ends. The mind bending from outside is getting ever more targeted and more capably done. The trick is to constantly check your own thinking, and also everything you see and hear. Don’t let the questioning push you into paralysis, but be careful to blindly accept that… Read more »
In other words, maintain your BS-Detector and ensure that it is properly calibrated.
Hypnosis is real TV announcers/anchors all speak with a nearly identical cadence/rhythm which would be considered odd if used in normal everyday conversation People who watch a lot of TV tend to believe the messages thereby propagated Conclusion: There is some kind of mass hypnosis going on. No doubt there is a visual aspect to it as well as the stated auditory one. Changing the subject: Now that we know the economy doesn’t work like we’d been taught it does, and that many jobs are really just fake makework jobs which produce nothing but emails, what about the stock market?… Read more »
Remember the “Plunge Protection Team?” Turned out, it’s real. Having said that, the reason stocks like AAPL and NVDA trade at such elevated levels is due to several factors. For one thing, the need for liquidity among the big index funds who manage everyone’s 401Ks and retirement savings. There are only a few companies that can offer the market caps needed for this. Also, the few real investing opportunities anymore for that size of company means they do stock buybacks. Those mega tech giants that can do stock buybacks with their hoards of cash win out and and it becomes… Read more »
No, thank you, that’s a fine example of why capital accumulation without bounds will turn its efforts to tipping the game table instead of seeking a better mousetrap. That’s the same question as a government unencumbered by a higher authority.
That’s why I’m against corporations. Corporations eventually all turn to the finance model. See GM.
Personally, I find much of simulation theory to be nonsense (albeit fun) fuel for discussions at a beer/bong/bonfire gatherings but…I like idea that consciousness is a simplified interface for which we interact with reality. Z put that one out there in a post a long while back and it was one of the few times in a long time I stayed up all night reading what I could about it.
“I like idea that consciousness is a simplified interface for which we interact with reality.”
That is not just a hypothesis, that is literally true. A lot of mental illness, like schizophrenia, is the result of people who due to a brain disorder, lack the necessary filters and limiting interface to screen out the parts of reality which are not relevant to their need to navigate their situation in a healthy or normative way.
My college professor said exactly that. In 1977.
Immanuel Kant laid this out 250 years ago in his Critique of Pure Reason. It’s become almost a cliche today but how did some guy figure this out initially? Plato talked about the images on the cave wall but did he really comprehend how it was true down to the sensory level? It never ceases to amaze me how much these old white guys understood or intuited with their limited resources of investigation.
What amazes me is how we, our people and their direct ancestors, were to do this again and again, remembering and rebuilding using the shards of our shattered civilizations, as a response to unimaginable catastrophes, monotheism being the latest.
What terrifies me is that so much of our way of knowing is being lost, what thrills me is that we are recovering so much of it. In our blood and bones, we still remember.
“..consciousness is a simplified interface for which we interact with reality.”
1000% agree. Mind is information processing at the embodied level, the forces of Creation have no more need of mind than does a tsunami to perform action.
We are froth, but we are the essential froth. Without us and the skein we create, the Big Diesel stops.
To paraphrase that great philosopher, Mike Tyson: everything has a simulation theory until they get punched in the face
As an aside, see “The Thirteenth Floor” for a look at the recursive simulation scenario. Entertaining.
Underrated movie that was overshadowed by The Matrix and the (in my opinion) somewhat overrated Dark City.
I’m pretty sure it’s a different plot, but I recall an amusing short story, title and author forgotten. Brief plot summary: Man manages an office building. One day someone comes and wants to lease the 13th floor. There’s only one problem, the building doesn’t have a 13th floor. Yet the would-be lessor persists. Finally, the manager is convinced somehow into drawing up a lease for the 13th floor, which the new tenant signs. (Perhaps he sees an easy opportunity to make some money off an obvious lunatic is the – wait for it – lessor of two evils. ) … Read more »
“I counted the floors to this building from the street.”…. “And?”….. “There’s one missing.”……. “We’ll look into it.”
“You seem to have led something of a charmed life.”
“I’m afraid charm hasn’t had much to do with it.”
As an aside, many Chicago highrises do not have a nominal thirteenth floor. They skip from twelve to fourteen. I am posting from a tall building which does not have floor thirteen, say what you will about superstition. And so there is that.
Ben. Reminds me of a cute movie worth seeing, “Being John Malkovich”.
A 1999 film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The plot follows Craig Schwartz, a struggling puppeteer who takes a job as a file clerk. One day, he discovers a hidden door in his office that leads into the mind of actor John Malkovich. For 15 minutes, Craig can experience life as Malkovich before being ejected onto the side of the New Jersey Turnpike…
Totally bizarre, but an interesting flick. Worth streaming.
It is interesting but it has strong voyeur vibes if you’ll notice. Just another normalization of perversion.
Holy shinola. That is so cool.
Roky Erickson’s elevator went to the thirteenth floor and never came back. He had some insight into living in a simulation
As an undergraduate, I took a summer Philosophy course at Villanova and we read as part of the course Summa contra Gentiles (St. Thomas Aquinas). In it, he demonstrates the existence of God while simultaneously discussing the opposing arguments. I’m not a theologian, but that course and that particular book stuck with me over the years as my mental armor supporting my faith in God. Much as I’ve grown to distrust the modern Catholic Church (big C) for obvious and very temporal reasons, I have not abandoned my basic Christian faith. I have struggled to find expression in a world… Read more »
I’m like you. I left the Catholic church (and several protestant ones) but didn’t leave Jesus. However, I have no belief whatsoever that God intervenes in his creation. All around I see evil men prospering and good people being martyred. As for your statement “God seems indifferent to the suffering of Man because Man is indifferent to the Will of God”, I’m not convinced. Many people are good and ARE aware of the will of God, yet God does still not intervene to help them when they are suffering. I guess this makes me all a Deist rather than a Christian.
We are all a bunch of separate consciousnesses piloting fairly long-lived extremely complex meat robots through a shared reality. Whether you want to attribute this experience to God or the Great Programmer makes very little difference at the end of the day, doesn’t it? It could actually very well be both simultaneously and it would not alter the belief system of either group whatsoever. God CAN be a programmer too, and visa-versa. You are trapped in this place same as me and everyone else. So the delineation between creators is totally meaningless & arbitrary. We have not figured out anyway… Read more »
“For months much of the world literally stopped going to work and yet the economy did not collapse. Everything we thought we knew about the workings of a modern economy said such a thing would plunge the world into a dark age,” I guess I’m not smart enough (or dumb enough) to contemplate (un)living in a simulation. The example above seems not convincing. The world did *not* stop working—not my world anyway. There were many, many “exempt” categories of workers. Many more worked from home. Never were “jobs of the mind” therefore affected. Meanwhile the government simply sent out checks… Read more »
Thomist Etienne Gilson solved this problem at the start of “Methodical Realism.” He was responding to the idealists, beginning with Descartes; and Descartes’ “Demon,” which is like the simulation theory. Gilson: “The first step on the realist path is to recognize that one has always been a realist; the second is to recognize that, however hard one tries to think differently, one will never manage to; the third is to realize that those who claim they think differently, think as realists as soon as they forget to act a part. If one then asks oneself why, one’s conversion to realism… Read more »
Other glitches in the Matrix. Charles NGO noticed the Zoom call fundraiser for Harris featuring White women only had a transgender individual who targeted him, and makes Pennywise the Clown feel uncomfortable and scared. Likewise James O’Keefe, who had a sting featuring a DNC drone who is of course, transgender. Like the Zoom call person, both transgenders are men pretending to be women. This triggers innate disgust and fear. Hollywood used to know this, with say Michael Caine featured as a transgender cross-dresser in “Dressed to Kill” (1980). Or Silence of the Lambs. Or even a Steven Segal movie: “Under… Read more »
In 1991, a character like Jame Gumb was depicted as a deeply disturbed, even murderous deviant, and in an Oscar-winning mainstream film.
In 2024, a character like Jame Gumb would be invited to be one of the guest speakers at the Democratic National Convention, representing the vanguard of a brave and amazing New Woke America.
his total lack of qualifications to do anything, this is a theme for Mr man of late. BO has talents. He may not have written a book, he may not have been a great law professor, he may not have been a great president, but I’m skeptical that he’s not talented at all, it could be said to be good with the right people, so he knows how to work with people. in a way this is perhaps the most important skill you can have. The silly meritocracy argument that only the qualified are hired , is not true, the… Read more »
BO’s extraordinary skilled at basking in adulation.
I don’t find Barry likeable, and I don’t see him with any skill or art. His only asset (not a skill) is being clean articulate black man that white folks feel comfortable voting for.
I have known, and even hired very likable people who were complete duds at their jobs. They didn’t last long. On the other hand I have worked and continue to work with some completely miserable SOBs who we keep on staff because they have real skills and can get things done.
On the other hand I have worked and continue to work with some completely miserable SOBs who we keep on staff because they have real skills and can get things done. Agree with this. I’ve dealt with some really arrogant a-holes in my career but my view was always “If they’re arrogant but can get the job done, I’ll keep them around.” Now if you’re arrogant AND hopeless at your job, well, the door is that way pal, here’s some cardboard boxes to carry your stuff. 👉🚪 Jugears struck me as “prissy” but you’re correct, he advanced because he didn’t… Read more »
Obama strikes me as a malignant narcissistic who vastly over-rates his own abilities. He also hates America.
I kinda still think if we get rid of the revolutionaries programing our media which feeds the brains of millions of people, a return to a normal stable simulation is possible. We just have too much chatter from the revolutionaries causing the population to go mad.
We need a Walter Cronkite simulation where every day he calmly says ” and that is the way it is” and the people believe him.
There is a great VR movie titled, “Viverium.” I warn you that it is extremely disturbing. We live in a world where we call anything that is a painting, drawing, rendering of music, film, play, book a, “piece or work of art.” No. Very little is a work of art, for very little is made by someone who has something deep and meaningful to say and some great lesson in ugliness and some great triumph in human beauty used to move us to internalize some deep human and/or folkish truth. Viverium is such a film. Again, I warn you that… Read more »
I didn’t find Vivarium disturbing, just tedious. The screenwriters weren’t up to the task. Also, what makes you think Vivarium has anything to do with VR? That’s only one potential interpretation.
There is no accounting for taste Vizzini. I can see the tedious interpretation or reaction. It was VR in the sense that they lived in an artificially constructed reality in which they were stuck.
Yeah, that’s a fair interpretation.
Not sure if it’s about VR but can certainly confirm it was deeply disturbing. A brilliant film!
The whole “creativity” thing is a bit of a sham anyway, because every has already been created. Artists just move around the pieces in new ways. Of course, some do that with supreme genius like Rembrandt, but most modern artists don’t. Look at how Jackson Pollack is still revered today, yet his work looks like something my dog brought up.
They’re getting bored with the game and are starting to use cheat codes to amuse themselves, that’s all.
What happens when the players finish all the missions and every single side quest, i wonder? Trade the old game in for a new one at their equivalent of GameStop?
You get a plastic rainbow participation medal and an evening with that Tranny at the Olympics.
I am reluctant to get into IRL discussions of simulation theory because of the people in my acquaintance who would go straight to Jean Baudrillard and “Simulacra and Simulation.” But I have a natural disgust response to Baudrillard that has prevented me from reading more than a paragraph. Maybe someone here in The Web’s Finest Commentariat® can help a buddy out?
I think it all comes down to idealism and people getting trapped in their minds. You end up with weird mysticism and secret knowledge and all of that, eventually insanity imo. Looked into Buddhism a lifetime ago, iirc there’s the idea that all is mind and mind is empty, or something like that. Hermeticism, gnosticism (Sophia lol) etc.— all smacks of the East to me. Much better to stay a little rough and tethered, to labor and ache a little imo. Greeks needed slaves so they had the leisure to philosophize, didn’t Aristotle say something to that effect? Maybe I’m… Read more »
Btw anyone who might want to read an Updike novel, look at Rogers Version
it has a computer nerd trying to prove the existence of God with a computer
many of the themes we are discussing here are discussed there.
I enjoyed the book quite a bit and it was the subject of my thesis in college way back when.
“white dudes for kamala” = i can draw white men into the military too, so please, mr rabbi, make me president!
Ephesians 6:12
…rulers of the darkness of this world…
I find it hard to argue with that statement (not that I’m trying to)
It all went wrong when God stuck with BitKeeper and didn’t migrate His codebase to Git.
I’m guessing the Devil uses Darcs or Subversion. Maybe both.
Having used Subversion, it’s the Devil’s Spawn 😈
our matrix is a media creation . they define what everyone believes . this is a good vide. you can ignore first 10 minutesof PC . it lays out how opinions are manipulated creating a universal public perception that is completely at odd with reality .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfq7q8yQiL8
(2) Out Of The Blank #1657 – Joseph McBride – YouTube
the last 10 minutes are also of no value
In short: Propaganda works.
I used to get a big kick out of that Sprite commercial that used the tagline “Image is nothing.” Sure buddy, that’s why you spend billions on the image of your product.
Then there was that Canon Eos ad (1990) featuring Andre Agassi.
“Image is everything.”
The Canon Rebel campaign featuring Agassi is one of the most successful ad campaigns of all time.
Hell, Rebel is still a brand/product family for Canon to this very day.
It’s just a riff on the complaint of the girl who didn’t get invited to the prom, “Looks aren’t everything.” Sprite isn’t saying that image is nothing. They’re whining that Coke and Dr. Pepper have a better image.
That’s why their can is green.
Only if you watch it…and I mean that in all seriousness. The media “matrix” is only effective on people actively participate in it. I don’t watch that crap. I don’t watch the “news”. I don’t watch crappy TV shows. If I watch something at all, it’s commercial free. When the woke stuff inevitably appears, I skip over it or just switch the show off. My family has figured this out and it’s dawning on my Mrs. that all these shows she likes have suddenly been inundated with gay “couples” and gay this and gay that. I’m not sure when she… Read more »
Participation is crucial. But, as you intimate, ignorance is important, too. Ergo, if you watch or listen and are not aware of the propagandistic aspects, then you’re vulnerable. Once the light comes on, and you realize what the cultural zealots are doing, then their incantations have no power over you.
Exactly
Another great article. But now my feeble old brain hurts.
The last sentence.
Yes we a should have been a long time ago.
If the filth manages to steal this one I’m spitting in my hands.
And will consider myself already dead.
Why would you assume that? 😉
Would it be possible to prove one way or the other that (in today’s context) that we live in a Matrix style simulation? I vote “probably not.” The same philosophical question has probably been pondered in many variants, such as Plato’s Cave. I’m familiar with the idea of “brain in a vat,” which term you may google if you care. I claim no particular expertise beyond a smattering of philosophy (yes, another Nietzsche quote coming, but patience dear reader) as well as extensive fiction, especially science fiction reading. It’s worth noting that literary genre likely has zero correlation with… Read more »
It’s impossible that this is a simulation
anyone who has ever programmed knows how impossible it would be to recreate existence
and like I always say, to truly know something means being able to make it. A guy who can make a car knows cars at a deeper level than even an ace mechanic. When we can actually make a dog, say, let me know. Or even a flower
point being, the fact that we can’t make anything like this, let alone a galaxy, means we can’t really know these things beyond a certain depth.
On the other hand, maybe there is evidence all around us, Particle theory is interesting like that. Scientists would love a grand unified theory because then all the forces in the universe would have a rational structure, and yet all the pieces just sit separate, like tools in a toolbox (for example, knowing more about Higgs particles means you just know more about Higgs particles because their behavior is not related to, or like, anything else). Some people suggest that the drive toward creating artificial intelligence and virtual reality is evidence that we live in a simulation. Big “if” of… Read more »
“Some people suggest that the drive toward creating artificial intelligence and virtual reality is evidence that we live in a simulation.” Abject terror here. Abject terror. What can be called Hell, the organo-formative layer, has no off switch. Any more than black mold crawling up the walls of an old house. It cannot stop itself, that is what the Whites are for. We are the white blood cells. Now that the Signal has been compromised by the strange accidents that led to the you-know-who and their role in Hell’s awakening, yes, there was a reason for our desperate panic. It’s… Read more »
“… it is wiped out in what we call a revolution.” Don’t threaten me with a good time! <sarc>