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Truman's world

06/01/2023 8:23 AM

Are we living in a "Truman's World?"

A prophetic 1998 Jim Carrey film.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-truman-show-1998

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06/01/2023 10:11 AM

Echoes of "The Matrix".

It does rather depend on the medication in use at the time...

Undefined: <...we...>?

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06/01/2023 10:20 AM

Me and my shadow.And of course,the voices...the...voices..the voices.

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06/01/2023 10:22 AM

This may have been the seed germ idea for Matrix.

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06/01/2023 11:34 AM

Or we could think of an example of the complete opposite where someone is living in their own world and no one knows what they are doing.

I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

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06/02/2023 3:09 AM

Hence the undefined <...we...>, one presumes.

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06/02/2023 1:07 PM

Perhaps one could think of an example . . . .

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06/09/2023 5:36 AM

Declined.

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06/09/2023 12:45 PM

It's O.K. to think of one, but that doesn't require sharing those thoughts.

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06/01/2023 12:52 PM

More like Idiocracy....

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06/09/2023 11:18 PM

No, there are no true men here. They all lie.

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06/10/2023 8:50 AM

Just like the flow of electricity, people take the path of least resistance.
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06/10/2023 10:33 AM

Not former president Trump. He takes the path of most opposition!

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06/10/2023 5:01 PM

More like gets indicted down the path of most resistance by the injustice system.

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