Ya gotta admit that Matrix presentation was a pretty good metaphor though. It's giving us fiction, claiming it's fact, but still paints it in high gloss fiction. After all The Matrix really was just good Scifi.

All you have to do is take a little bit of fact and paint it into a surreal video game conspiracy--complete with binary code and control console. We have an all powerful super-menace, the devil, aliens, superbankers and computer players opposing the forces of evil!...all the good stuff is there.

Maybe that's why it's so appealing. We can bring our movie and game fantasies right into real life. We grew up in the fantasy and it's a letdown that reality isn't like the movies....what a drag. I can sympathize. I've done my time with the games, movies and scifi pulp.

Doh! Why didn't I see it before....I just realized what all this Illuminati stuff is all about. As a society we're forming our mythology! Angels now days are aliens but the tradition continues! Check out Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth.