Matrix resurrection review

Matrix Resurrection groans under the weight of self reference and launders its narrative shortcuts in the cliched loop of a story that is and is about a counterfeit reality played over and over and over. Oscar goes to Doogie Howser M.D.

LARPing in a Toyota Corolla

 

Washed at the lake.

 

The truth

The truth is the outcome of two lies competing for the most. 

Computer time

Computer time is a resonating palindrome perturbed ever so slightly by suggestion algorithms.

The loss of religious moderates

"While one group of Americans has tended to withdraw from active involvement in faith-based communities, another group is as fully involved as ever. While the fraction of the population that is entirely disconnected from organized religion has increased, the fraction that is intensely involved has been relatively stable. In other words, religious dropouts have come at the expense of those whose religious involvement was modest but conventional. The result is that the country is becoming ever more clearly divided into two groups--the devoutly observant and the entirely unchurched. (Some might see here a certain parallel to trends in politics--more true believers, more dropouts, and fewer moderates.) This is the sociological substratum that underlies the much discussed "culture wars" of recent years."

(p. 75)

from Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" 

Ability and illness

I think my abilities with language come from a sensitivity that consequently disables me where it's mapped onto a social landscape in the third person.