{"id":170449,"date":"2021-02-04T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-glitch-in-the-matrix-review-simulation-theorys-true-believers\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T07:30:16","slug":"watch-a-glitch-in-the-matrix-review-simulation-theorys-true-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-glitch-in-the-matrix-review-simulation-theorys-true-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;A Glitch in the Matrix&#8217; Review: Simulation Theory&#8217;s True Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af5879a9bab0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af5879a9bab0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-glitch-in-the-matrix-review-simulation-theorys-true-believers\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98A_Glitch_in_the_Matrix_Review_Simulation_Theorys_True_Believers%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;A Glitch in the Matrix&#8217; Review: Simulation Theory&#8217;s True Believers&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-glitch-in-the-matrix-review-simulation-theorys-true-believers\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98A_Glitch_in_the_Matrix_Review_Simulation_Theorys_True_Believers%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;A Glitch in the Matrix&#8217; Review: Simulation Theory&#8217;s True Believers&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98A_Glitch_in_the_Matrix_Review_Simulation_Theorys_True_Believers%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;A Glitch in the Matrix&#8217; Review: Simulation Theory&#8217;s True Believers&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98A_Glitch_in_the_Matrix_Review_Simulation_Theorys_True_Believers%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;A Glitch in the Matrix&#8217; Review: Simulation Theory&#8217;s True Believers&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        There are words, and many metaphors, one could use to describe simulation theory: the belief, popularized two decades ago by \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d that the life we\u2019re living \u2014 the people we know, the experiences we have, what we see, touch, think, and feel \u2014 is literally an illusion, an artificial fa\u00e7ade orchestrated by minds more developed than our own. You could, if you chose, describe this as a philosophical stance, one that can be traced back to Descartes or even the myth of Plato\u2019s Cave. You could also call it a rabbit hole, a looking glass, or this generation\u2019s acid <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> \u2014 a chemistry-free way of turning reality inside out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Glitch in the Matrix,\u201d the new documentary directed by Rodney Ascher, who made the thrilling cinehaulic conspiracy-theory deep dive \u201cRoom 237\u201d (which was about people who think that hidden messages are encoded in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cThe Shining\u201d), gives each of those metaphors a workout. The movie takes the pulse of how <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> fiction has merged with our imaginations. It\u2019s got animated sequences that are like puckishly staged video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s, and it features an ironic cast of giddy talking-head incels \u2014 a total arrested boys\u2019 club, alternately fascinating and annoying. Elon Musk is their tycoon celebrity representative. We see clips of Musk on a talk show saying, \u201cThe odds that we\u2019re in base reality is one in billions.\u201d What his minions don\u2019t understand it that he\u2019s selling himself as an out-of-the-box mod futurist. <em>Elon Musk says reality isn\u2019t real! Whoa! Where can I sign up!? <\/em>It\u2019s hardly incidental that \u201cThe Matrix\u201d starred Keanu Reeves. If \u201cA Glitch in the Matrix\u201d is evidence, simulation theory now threatens to turn a whole lot of us into Bill and Ted.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, if you <em>really<\/em> want to unplug from the matrix, you might just go out on a limb and declare the following: that simulation theory, while fun to think about, is basically a crock \u2014 a debased product of a fantasy-fixated culture, which encourages people, more and more each day, to project their identities into avatars, to get lost in comic-book video-game worlds they think are \u201creal,\u201d and to regard their own lives as the dull, sad ones they\u2019re stuck inside. (In \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d the black-and-white Kansas sequences are \u201creal,\u201d but it\u2019s the madly colorful action in Oz that\u2019s <em>real<\/em>.) If you can just pop the right pill, or get to the right website, the truth \u2014 <em>that it\u2019s all an illusion!<\/em> \u2014 will be there, and it will set you free. You\u2019ll be one of the anointed, like Neo. And you can chatter with your friends about it from your basement! (I\u2019m talking to you, 45-year-old \u201cMatrix\u201d fanboy and simulation-theory addict.)<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the metaphor the people we meet in \u201cA Glitch in the Matrix\u201d believe: that our lives are a computer simulation, engineered (and controlled) by an advanced civilization. So it\u2019s both a reality theory and an extraterrestrial theory; you could say that the alien cults of the late \u201970s and \u201980s paved the way for it. But the one who really paved the way for it \u2014 who gave it cachet, and a certain scruffy literary cool \u2014 was Philip K. Dick, the science-fiction visionary who died in 1982, but not before laying down, in many of his stories and novels, the grand foundations for simulation theory.<\/p>\n<p>How did he come with it? Simple: He <em>believed<\/em> it. He thought of his novels as documentaries, in which he was writing down the things he\u2019d glimpsed from an alternate reality more real than our own. \u201cA Glitch in the Matrix\u201d is divided into chapters (\u201cRevelations: Seeing the Code,\u201d \u201cThe Kingdom of God: Notes Toward a Digital Theology\u201d), and each one is introduced by a clip of Dick, filmed in 1977 speaking to a roomful of fans in Metz, France. He\u2019s a charismatic geek, with eccentric two-toned facial hair (a dark goatee that suddenly turns white on the cheeks), and he tells the story of how in 1974, after taking sodium pentothal, which he was given to have his wisdom teeth extracted, \u201cI had a short, acute flash of recovered memory.\u201d He called the experience 2-3-74, and what he glimpsed was the dystopian underbelly of America \u2014 another world, parallel to our own, that would soon take over, because it was real. And only he could see it.<\/p>\n<p>One is tempted to say that Dick, under the influence of sodium pentothal, experienced a schizophrenic break. It has never been fully documented that he had that diagnosis, but his paranoia, his devout belief in his delusions, and his tendency to scribble them down in multi-thousand-word manifestos are classic hallmarks of the schizophrenic mind. On some level, the belief in simulation theory is every insane homeless person on the sidewalk who thinks he\u2019s talking to Neptune through a tin can. But Dick, at his best, gave a pulp-poetic form to his unhinged passion \u2014 the androids with feelings, the nightmares hovering just out of sight. And \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d while it wasn\u2019t a Dick adaptation, took his ideas and pumped them up into a new kind of mythology. Simulation theory, says the film, is now \u201cfiercely debated online and IRL, in classrooms, laboratories, design studios, and courtrooms.\u201d It has grown and metastasized. Kind of like QAnon.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s \u201cwitnesses\u201d deliver their testimonials in digital disguise, transformed into jewel-headed metallic creatures who look like characters out of some virtual-reality thriller from the early \u201990s. One is an ordained minister, one is a pastor\u2019s son, and one is a dude who did nothing for years but work at Chili\u2019s and play video games. For all of them, simulation theory is a religion. These are the kinds of people who believe that coronavirus could be a PSYOP. Who say things like \u201cI think what they want us to do it to improve upon the simulation they already made.\u201d Who really need to get out more.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re quite articulate, but what their words suggest is that those who are drawn to simulation theory, to believing that their own lives aren\u2019t real, are people with detachment issues. They look around and desire a life that\u2019s lurking behind the one they have. One of them, Joshua Cooke, is even more extreme. He became a \u201cMatrix\u201d obsessive, watching it hundreds of times, treating his leather trench coat as if it were a living being, and finally convincing himself that if nothing is real, it\u2019s okay for him to shoot his parents. His de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion of that act, heard on the soundtrack, is chilling.<\/p>\n<p>I loved \u201cRoom 237\u201d because it sucked me in. That\u2019s what good conspiracy theory does: It makes you think, <em>Could this be true? Maybe\u2026.<\/em> \u201cA Glitch in the Matrix,\u201d by contrast, never produces a \u201cWhoa\u201d moment. I think that\u2019s because Rodney Ascher, as a filmmaker, sees right through simulation theory, yet he wants to show us \u2014 almost warn us \u2014 how prevalent it\u2019s becoming. It truly is a cousin to QAnon, another belief system that posits our own world as a masquerade. Which makes you wonder why Ascher never mentions \u201cred-pilling,\u201d a \u201cMatrix\u201d reference that tends to describe people having an alt-right awakening: Suddenly, they see through feminism and the lies of the liberal <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> (like, you know, the illusion that Joe Biden won the election). The more you look at the Capitol rioters, the more you see how they unplugged from the matrix of rationality.<\/p>\n<p>But the larger story here \u2014 in \u201cA Glitch in the Matrix,\u201d it\u2019s one that transcends left-vs.-right ideologies \u2014 is that more and more people in our culture are beholden to visions that are, in fact, so removed from reality that it doesn\u2019t seem extreme to say that those visions amount to a collective mental illness. The difference is, it\u2019s not a detachment from reality that comes from the inside; it\u2019s a detachment from reality that comes from the outside \u2014 from the culture at large, from fantasy entertainment that bleeds into delusional politics that bleeds into the belief that existence itself is a mere mirage. 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