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We already live in a matrix

I would suggest the whole of your electronics represent an Alternative Time and Alternative Space. You can feel rushed or leisurely in this Other Time, can’t you?  And confined or spacious, up high or down low, in a tree or cave or skyscraper?

This is ALL your media: your tv, computer, phone, radio, record player if you have one. Everything that emits sound and light that does not exist in your Present Present.

We get stuck in the habit of looking to this Other Than Here And Now for distraction, which functionally equals comfort, as a deflection from uncomfortable Here And Now emotions, images, thoughts and sensations.

Watch yourself for a day. How often do you leave and come back thinking about where you went? How many stare at screens all day every day?

Media is timeless. It can in principle be preserved perfectly as long as computers exist. The Dick van Dyke show will be identical in 1,000 years. 10,000.

There is something unnatural about timelessness at this level of reality, which is about birth, growth, reproduction, decay and death.

The form of media has content. What affect does all this have on us? Scientifically, I’m not sure we have made even a proper beginning in answering this question.

Watch yourself. This is a very basic Mindfulness exercise.