Desert of the Real: Jesus, The Matrix, and Hyper-Reality.
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Desert of the Real: Jesus, The Matrix, and Hyperreality.
Jean Baudrillard’s “Procession of Simulacra” (1984).
Larry and Andy Wachowskis’ The Matrix (1999).
Baudrillard compares reality to the map of a great empire’s territory. The map of the empire becomes so descriptive that it “ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined” (Baudrillard, 19). The great map, the abstraction, the simulation of the territory, presents the frayed edges as the symbol for the decline of the empire. Compared with the simulation prevalent in the modern world, Baudrillard suggests that the map which was once only a representation of a true substance, has replicated that substance so many times that the simulation has become the substance itself. Today, we cannot use abstraction in the sense that true reality can be separated from a representation of itself. That is to say that you cannot separate the territory from its representation in the map. What then is left for reality and truth? If the simulation, or map, now contains the essence of the territory, than the frayed edges which once symbolized the decline of the empire today represent the outskirts of our current simulation. “It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, The desert of the real itself” (Baudrillard, 20). What is meant by this is that real truth and meaning cannot be found when one only ever encounters simulation. The individual who is aware of the presence of simulation and can separate themselves from it, in a sense becomes free from it. A state of pure reality still exists in relation to the map. It is in the desert of the real that one finds themselves in a position to reject simulation in order to derive at a greater truth.
Simulation makes the human lose all emotional connections with the other, the object. That at it’s worst, it turns us into droids, incapable of human emotion..
Written by: Nic Foster. 2005, or thereabout.
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Duration : 0:10:6
David Icke: Who Controls The Web?
The Peaceful Revolution That Will Set Us Free
http://www.DavidIcke.com
Thanks to everyone for supporting this event and telling your friends, family and acquaintances.
David Icke Seminar, Melbourne Convention Centre, Australia, 11th April 2009.
UPDATE from Adam Davis (Mar 30 2009):
http://www.truthmovementaustralia.com.au
Hey all,
Just letting you know that the David Icke event is sold out.
If you were one of the lucky people over the last 4 months who managed to grab yourself a ticket then congratulations and I will see you there!
Thanks to everyone for supporting this event and telling your friends, family and acquaintances.
Sorry to those who have missed out on tickets, my advice is to check the forum or ebay for people who may possibly be selling their tickets.
The DVD of the event will be made available to all members of Truth Movement Australia at a discounted price to allow the message to be spread far and wide.
We will be changing the Next Event section to our next speaker Peter Joseph, director of Zeitgeist in the next week.
Thanks again,
Adam Davis
http://www.truthmovementaustralia.com.au
Please also visit the new Melbourne WeAreChange channel at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WeAreChangeMelbourne
Duration : 0:7:27
46 Getting To The Bottom Of The Rabbit’s Hole
David Icke: The Mass Awakening
Playlist – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UupGdd…
This is a video in response to prior “The Biblical Hebrews Of The Bible” BlogTalk Radio Show; where I will be giving the listeners a foundation for researching the Conspiracies that have been hidden from common knowledge.
The information will include a wide variety of topics and will therefore be continuous. Let’s find out what those in the know are hidding from us!
Join me for more interesting information @
“The Biblical Hebrews Of The Bible – http://biblicalhebrewsofthebible.ning…
“Truth Seeker’s Of The Matrix” Home Site – http://truthseekers2009.ning.com/
“Peeling Away The Demonic Onion” Home Site – http://thematrixblogtalkradio.ning.com/
My Other YouTube Channel – http://www.youtube.com/user/wwjdfouryou
Feel free to go to any of these sites for interesting and eye opening video’s and more..
Alex Jones: Prison Planet – http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Propaganda Matrix.com – http://www.propagandamatrix.com/
Alex Jones: Infowars – http://www.infowars.com/
David Icke,com – http://www.davidicke.com/index.php/
David Icke: The Biggest Secret – http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/biggestsecretbook/biggestsecret.htm
Duration : 0:10:42
48 Getting To The Bottom Of The Rabbit’s Hole
David Icke: The Mass Awakening
Playlist – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UupGdd…
This is a video in response to prior “The Biblical Hebrews Of The Bible” BlogTalk Radio Show; where I will be giving the listeners a foundation for researching the Conspiracies that have been hidden from common knowledge.
The information will include a wide variety of topics and will therefore be continuous. Let’s find out what those in the know are hidding from us!
Join me for more interesting information @
“The Biblical Hebrews Of The Bible – http://biblicalhebrewsofthebible.ning…
“Truth Seeker’s Of The Matrix” Home Site – http://truthseekers2009.ning.com/
“Peeling Away The Demonic Onion” Home Site – http://thematrixblogtalkradio.ning.com/
My Other YouTube Channel – http://www.youtube.com/user/wwjdfouryou
Feel free to go to any of these sites for interesting and eye opening video’s and more..
Alex Jones: Prison Planet – http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Propaganda Matrix.com – http://www.propagandamatrix.com/
Alex Jones: Infowars – http://www.infowars.com/
David Icke.com – http://www.davidicke.com/index.php/
David Icke: The Biggest Secret – http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/biggestsecretbook/biggestsecret.htm
Duration : 0:9:2
Question Your Reality (Alex Jones)
This video discusses the dangers of fluoride in our drinking water, and how it is responsible for a host of different medical problems – including cancer, brittle bone disease, immune deficiency, mental sedation, and even reduced IQ. This has all been known to the powers-that-be since the 1920′s. Despite the fact that fluoride has been shown to have no effect whatsoever in reducing dental problems, the powers-that-be insist on putting it in our tap water. Fluoride is a toxic industrial bi-product from the aluminium industry. It is classified as hazardous waste. Consumption of fluoride – even in tiny amounts – is extremely harmful to the body. This is established medical fact. One of the first uses for fluoride was in the 1930′s and 1940′s when fluoridated water was given to prisoners of Nazi concentration camps to cloud their thinking ability and weaken their mental resolve. This very same tactic is now being used on us, by our very own leaders, to the extent where many people are incapable of thinking outside the box. All of the studies in every state and every country show that fluoride does NOT improve the state of your teeth or gums. And even if it did help in any way, why does this highly toxic substance have to be put in our drinking water? Think about it. There’s only one logical reason to put it in our water — the elite are using fluoride as one of their many tools to assault our body and mind for their own gain. We are nothing more than battery cells to them. We are just programmable, income-generating, tax-paying consumers. They extract money from our labour, our sweat-equity, and they use that money to build the prison walls around us so they can control us even more. If they had their way, we’d all be nothing more than robots who do as we’re told and never complain. The last thing they want is an informed, active and closely-knit society of people who have the brains, the heart, the courage, and the will to change the status quo. Therefore they use every tool at their disposal to keep us all in a perpetual dumbed-down, distracted and submissive state. The elite are the only ones who gain from this, not us! We should all stop squabbling amongst ourselves and instead focus our attention on the puppets and their masters who profit from all the things that make us angry. Stop getting all your info from the mainstream media – do your own news gathering from many independent sources. Only then can you confidently say that you know what’s going on in the world. It is time to break out of your conditioning and express your true individuality.
http://www.InfoWars.com
http://www.PrisonPlanet.com
Duration : 0:10:59
David Icke – The Great Illusion of Time and Space
David Icke talking about how the Illuminati are trying to keep the Earths Consciousness or vibrational level as low as possible by keeping us in a vibrational prison thus limiting what we perceive as reality.
Duration : 0:9:49
Michael Tsarion – Architects of Control Program 1 part 1 of 16(HQ)
http://www.architectsofcontrol.com/
recently availble to the public, this film is interesting to say the least. wake up to the reality of the world we live in!
Duration : 0:10:57
