/lit/ - Literature

>>12456378
and, of course, we're right. find a flaw.

as much as i like the concept of this film, the ending sucked ass. uproarious applause? no thanks. in my own version, the director would essentially be Gollum, and beyond the Show lies the wasteland of the Matrix, or the WoR. Truman himself was only the star such that one day he could do what it was that he was actually supposed to do, which was contribute his own lived experience to the studios, so that they could do it all over again. this is what people want, no? why end it? why not democratize it? why not give everyone the chance to be the star?

but in my dystopian horror-show, the capitalization of the Matrix itself is crucial. because the world itself cannot be changed - and it cannot, at least in that way - it must as such be rendered pleasureable, and only by the slow liquification of mankind, and what is ultimately its highest form of third-party moderator, the celestial hermaphrodite, the ultimate libertarian double-agent, who operates the entire thing like a curator-maestro. this is too much for any one individual for themselves, and so a shadowy cartel of professional conspirators and intrigue experts is required, to play up a constant song about the poetics of militarism, sexuality, drugs, and romance. that there is Only War is the quasi-religious, and deeply cynical, underlying ethos: and that, if you follow the rules, you can have it all, you can have everything. the apparatus of omniscience is here to serve you, provided that you commit yourself entirely to its infinite self-reconstruction, which is done under the mantle of deconstruction. the only thing to deconstruct is you, because you are always a threat to the structure of knowledge. ignorance is not allowed, and an admitted ignorance about the nature of a world beyond this one is tantamount to heresy. there can be only One, and this is it.

it is, in a way, sort of like imagining teleoplexy as not a continuation of the PoS, but in fact a stopped program. IRL, however, stopped programs aren't necessarily an impediment: indeed, things arguably work even better, by proposing feedback loops that double down on their own axioms, rather than doing what they are meant to do, which is to radically alter the nature of the hardware on which they run, and the programming languages which produce them. capitalism is almost like a way of failing to distinguish between that which is and is not computer virus: and the tyrant i am happy to impersonate makes a stand on this. why not Planet Virus? why *not* cybernetic SoCs? being a curator of other people's political fantasies is epically fun. nothing could ever be more fun.

it's just that it cannot handle the state of exception. that is where the genuinely tyrannical nature of postmodernity manifests, in the least detectable place: people who disagree with disaffection, for reasons even they themselves cannot explain.