?Matrix? and its sequel. ?Matrix Reloaded,? offer a useful analogy for anyone trying to make sense of the chasm that has opened between what?s real and what Americans perceive is real. Like the science-fiction world of the two movies, a false reality is being pulled daily over people?s eyes, often through what they see and hear on their TV screens. Facts have lost value. Logic rarely applies.
Some living in this ?American Matrix? are like the everyday people in the movies, simply oblivious to what?s going on beneath the surface, either too busy or too bored to find out. Others appear to know better but behave like Cipher, the character in the original movie who chooses the fake pleasures of the Matrix over what Morpheus calls ?the desert of the real.?
Many Americans so enjoyed the TV-driven nationalism of the Iraq War, for instance, that they didn?t want it spoiled by reality. During the conflict, they objected to news outlets showing mangled bodies or wounded children or U.S. POWs. Presenting the ugly face of war was seen as unpatriotic or somehow disloyal to ?the troops.? Only positive images were welcome and dissent was deemed almost treasonous.
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