The issue of politics, politicians and bureaucracy has always made me a bit curious within the frame of The Matrix. It's always made me interested in my life beyond this game but the situation of simulated reality brings up some interesting questions.
First of all, what do you think politicians and leaders are in The Matrix? Are they Programs, people completely suckered in by The System or are they just total fabrications that don't even have avatars in The Simulation?
I'd like to hear your theories on the matter and we'll see where the discussion goes from there.
Well, the (LESIG) mayor of Mega City logged in a few times on Syntax about a year ago. I can't remember his name for the life of me, and can't check my friend list since I'm at work; someone else probably remembers. In any event, he was doing the meet-and-great with blues and reds alike, and even had a staged press conference at the court house in Tabor where his security staff (and even wife, I think) were present. So at the very least, they do have avatars...however I don't recall if he was a bluepill, redpill, or program.
Interesting topic! Yeah, I think it's probably a combination of both programs to regulate political activity and humans who subconsciously want to preserve the Matrix. Remember that Morpheus explained to Neo in the Woman-in-the-Red-Dress trainer that many bluepills are so dependent on the System that they would die to protect it. I could definitely see how some bluepills would channel that impulse to preserve the status quo by focusing on administrative and political careers.
At the same time, the Machines would have to influence politics to a significant degree. There would have to be no major events that would provide a benchmark in time so that people would not begin to wonder why it was always 1999. The System would have to regulate political activity so that the influence of any real political change was minimized. The Machines would have to make it so that even opposing political parties would negate each others' progress - or emulate each others' tactics and platforms so closely that they started to sound indistinguishable from each other - resulting in a stagnant political homogeneity. . .
Wait . . . the more I think about this, the more this is sounding like America . . .
*depressed*
I think Paddock was a player event.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the whole paddock thing was a player event run by the Tetrgrammaton actually...
Wait . . . the more I think about this, the more this is sounding like America . . .*depressed*
Wait, what's the difference between the programs and the pure fabrications? They're both just simulations of real people, there to make the simulation look real as the Machines work.
