{"id":36938,"date":"2018-08-22T19:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36938"},"modified":"2018-08-22T19:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:06:40","slug":"society-is-made-of-narrative-realizing-this-is-awakening-from-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36938","title":{"rendered":"Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/08\/22\/society-is-made-of-narrative-realizing-this-is-awakening-from-the-matrix\/\">Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix.<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-5142\" class=\"post-5142 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-caitlin-johnstone tag-narrative tag-oligarchy tag-propaganda tag-the-matrix\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/medium-1-1200x900.jpeg?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/medium-1-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/medium-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/medium-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/medium-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/medium-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/medium-1.jpeg 1600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>In the movie <em>The Matrix<\/em>, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program that has been jacked into their brains to keep them in a comatose state. They live their whole lives in that virtual simulation, without any way of knowing that what they appear to be experiencing with their senses is actually made of AI-generated code.<\/p>\n<p>Life in our current society is very much the same. The difference is that instead of AI, it\u2019s psychopathic oligarchs who are keeping us asleep in the Matrix. And instead of code, it\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Society is made of narrative like the Matrix is made of code. Identity, language, etiquette, social roles, opinions, ideology, religion, ethnicity, philosophy, agendas, rules, laws, money, economics, jobs, hierarchies, politics, government, they\u2019re all purely mental constructs which exist nowhere outside of the mental noises in our heads. If I asked you to point to your knee you could do so instantly and wordlessly, but if I asked you to point to the economy, for example, the closest you could come is using a bunch of linguistic symbols to point to a group of concepts. To show me the economy, you\u2019d have to tell me a story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5147\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neo.jpg?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1027px) 100vw, 1027px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neo.jpg 1027w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neo-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neo-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neo-1024x603.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1027\" height=\"605\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has ever experienced a moment of mental stillness knows that without the chatter, none of those things are part of your actual present experience. There is no identity, language, etiquette, social roles, opinions, ideology, religion, ethnicity, philosophy, agendas, rules, laws, money, economics, jobs, hierarchies, politics or government in your experience without the mental chatter about those things. There\u2019s not even a \u201cyou\u201d anywhere to be found, because it turns out that that\u2019s made of narrative, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix. In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. 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