Comments on: Arthur Lewin; The Matrix of the Matrix…. https://thyblackman.com/2011/05/03/arthur-lewin-the-matrix-of-the-matrix/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Tue, 03 May 2011 21:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Arthur Lewin https://thyblackman.com/2011/05/03/arthur-lewin-the-matrix-of-the-matrix/comment-page-1/#comment-3091 Tue, 03 May 2011 21:46:00 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=6248#comment-3091 Yes, I probably did go off track. But I am hardly averse to that. It’s surprising some of the things you find when you go off the beaten track, like the interesting points you raise. I wrote it years ago, but I posted it here because of what I thought was its attempt to use religious symbols to enthrall people, especially people of color.

Other tangents include the fact that a Black woman, Sophia Stewart, sued the Wachowski brothers, the producers, for plagiarism, and the Columbine shooters called themselves the trenchcoat mafia and modeled themselves after the characters in the film.

Also, Neo receives a call and is told to go to Adam street. When he gets there its pouring rain and two women pull up in a black limo. He gets in and they put a contraption over his navel, pull something out of him and throw it into the street. He goes to Adam Street and Fishburne initiates him into the group.

Adam Street because he is like Adam a new man. The women in the car are midwives of a sort that is why they put the device over his navel. And Fishburne being John the Baptist reveals the details of the new belief system and formally makes him part of the group in the middle of ferocious rainstorm, symbolizing Baptism’s immersion in water. . .

]]> By: Bugs https://thyblackman.com/2011/05/03/arthur-lewin-the-matrix-of-the-matrix/comment-page-1/#comment-3085 Tue, 03 May 2011 19:18:04 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=6248#comment-3085 Wow. I think this article went slightly off-track despite its good intentions.
Truth of it is quite clear: Post-Modernism to the Extreme. That’s pretty much it. It’s about the UNreality of concepts we have created.

And it’s the reason the 3rd movie sucked, or was “anti-climactic” so as to not offend the purists. It DEPRIVES us of the EXPECTED ending where everything is tied up nicely (that is a myth we have created to make our reality more palatable) because nothing is tied up nicely in life.

Consider also in the first movie when Neo sells a computer program to the friend who comes knocking, he pulls it out of a hollowed book called “Simulacra and Simulation”. Entire WORLDS “inside” simulacrum and simulation. That’s post-modernism, adolescently jacked-up to 11.

What more do you want?

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