Re: The Matrix Reloaded

[MARIPOWER716@xxxxxxx]

> I read on another list that Prof. Cornel West is going to be in the next 2
Matrix movies. He's playing a Zion elder called Counselor West.<

I enjoyed the first Matrix immensely, probably for all the "wrong reasons."
Then again, I still enjoy comic books. The Matrix - the axis that rivets and
from which a given set of phenomenon flows, had less to do with Marxism for
me and much to do with the power of critical observation. How does one
authenticate experience or what one imagines their experience to be or for
that matter what one imagines themselves to think and believe?

The machines feed man who once had the power to interact with nature and
created machine society. The machines get the upper hand and the script is
flipped and now man is fed by the machines and converted into an energy
source for the machines. Pardon, this was not said "properly."

Man interactive relations with all that is environment, as it passes to
social production and increasing externalization of his social labor as
embodied in machines reached a juncture and cross over where the machines of
man creation severe their connection with man as dominator and achieve
independent consciousness and existence outside of man. Not just one
Terminator sent to the past to kill the messiah but control of the
present-future; domination as a systemic relationship involving growing human
in containment chambers equipped with auto-feeding that keeps the interior of
the mind active to ensure survival of man as energy supply - battery. To
preserve this new social relations the messiah still needs to be slain.

Pavlov's dog in the new world of high technology.

He who feeds shaped the conceptual frameworks of those who are fed. In the
battle between the stomach and the head, the stomach generally wins in
history. Philosophy steps in to explain the inner and external dynamics of
the stomach and head, as they are interactive and resolves itself to the
inevitable: is the world truly knowable? Having reached the same conclusion
all philosophy reaches, the inherent perishability of ideas - specifically
their shape, is discarded and man eternal striving for being is elevated to a
philosophy of enlightenment. "What is the Matrix?"

The Matrix must sooner or later come to the conclusion that man is his own
worse enemy and the enemy is within. Philosophy by definition begins from the
interior of the mind and this raises Professor West to seminal status. No
doubt Professor West will explain man as man's worse enemy.

It comes as no surprise that Professor West would be cast as the Yoda of
Matrix. His "The American Evasion of Philosophy: A genealogy of Pragmatism,"
"Theory, Pragmatism's and Politics," "On Georg Lukas,"  "Fredric Jameson's
American Marxism," "Race and Social Theory," "The Paradox of the African
American Rebellion," and "Martin Luther King as Organic Intellectual (an
article I actually liked, although I most certainly was not on the "Kind
side" of the Civil Rights Movement. I  "grew up to build cars not lay in
front of them) most certainly qualifies him for something. There is of course
"Prophetic Thought In Post-Modern Times" (Volume One), which is not as
"literary thick" as say the piece of Fredric Jameson and "The Ethical
Dimensions of Marxist Thought," amongst a mountain of literary achievement.

"The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought," means the "Ethical Dimensions of
Thought" or Ethical Layer of Thinking. Talk about the bourgeois inheritance
of philosophy. The black man as African American as black man as practical
philosophic leader and "the black" as the light.

"Use the force Luke,"  . . .take the Red pill Neal. Just what I need right
now, another guru to replace the last one, who failed me or was it that I
failed him and in failing him cause him to fail me?

"Cornel West will appear in The Matrix sequels, playing a Zion Elder called
Counselor West. He was invited by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the movies'
writer-director team, who'd read West's philosophical writings and wanted to
incorporate him into the script." Thus, states the Pragmatism Cybrary.

Was not professor West one of our social imperialists whose ethical
dimensions compelled him to sign the petition against the executions of
criminals in Cuba? Ethical dimensions . .  . what about a sense of
proportions?

Superior thinking has its rewards.

Melvin P.