Thoughts of a 'Man'

In case you haven't already know.....matrix, the movie, was based on many philosophical concepts by this man called Jean Baudrillard.....from some book, Simulacra and simulation..i think.......many of the visual scenes in the matrix paints the expressions that the author has mentioned in the book.....such as the scene in the desert, where things in actuality is emptiness...

was reading some gp notes on modern consumer habits.....and most of it was quoted from this book.....saying that fast food, shopping malls, home shopping are all plastic, californiacation, where there is no variety, purpose, and meaning, goods and services,to earn your money, exploiting consumers for profit.........................like being sap of the electricity running through our nerves to power the machines, in the matrix.......

"The world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."...one example mentioned in The Economist article was the ordering of fast food......When we approach the counter, the server will greet us with a set of preprogrammed, scripted, responses....like an NPC....we will respond accordingly like the 'program'(the server) was designed to make us respond this way...by ordering our food.......there is no real interaction here.....only a 'simulated' interaction.......we are not really interacting, but just exchanging some words.... Shopping malls, theme parks, casinos, victoria secrets(all examples brought up in the article...)....they are enviroments set up for us to spend our money despite what it proposes to be leisure and pleasure....all that leisure is simulated....it is a world that has been pulled over our eyes....the real agenda is really to exploit consumers........... which is why the construction of the matrix......to simulate us into believing that we are living a 'real' life of purpose......that we are walking shopping malls for practical reason...

many of the scenes in the matrix were really from this book...cool.....anyway, it got me thinking about relationships among humans....whether there is any sincerity to it.....or simply a simulated interaction.....buteven i am beggining to see some relationships as being simulated.....sort of hypocrisy, but more real than hypocrisy really.....its not out of intent, but of habit i think.....i'll talk more about it another time..........

anyway, hope all of this is real.............the people that we meet each day, the tasks that we do are of real purpose....