Stranger than Fiction

I don’t know about you, but over the last few weeks etc, I’ve started to really wonder if the world is run by movies and television show, let me explain.

You would have to be under a tree, rock or some other large immovable object not to know that elections are taking place in the ‘Americas’, yes I wrote it that way on purpose.

For those of you who did not watch West Wing, become a fan of President Bartlett, Leo Senator Santos, CJ etc, then, I’m really sorry you missed out on a great show, and missed the prediction of the current election; cus West Wing already predicted the current presidential election.

West Wing told us how this election is going to end, the national disaster, the way the different parties will handle it the reaction of people the marginal lead etc, except maybe without the bipartisan cooperation of the Republicans and Democrats but the whole thing has already been shown on TV, and really the tension is unwarranted, McCain should do the right thing and concede and let Obama get on with it. (I am not bipartisan, I love Obama, I’m proud to say that I am barmy for Obama, and I am a ‘Bama Babe, before you all start going bonkers about my political inclination, not that it makes a difference since I’m not American……… but that is a blog for another day)

So some of you might think I’m being overwrought by just how much it seems our lives are following the media, but I have proof (as to do most crazy people, but I know I’m right)

All I have to say is watch Wag the Dog.

Wag the Dog is a story about the president of the USA being involved in a sex scandal (Bill Clinton) and in a bid to dissuade people from thinking about it he ‘created’ a war in Albania (Bill Clinton scandal and the Bosnian War anybody).

This is a sad one to bring up, but September 11 and the list of films that showed the twin towers being blown up, Armageddon, Deep Impact etc.

The list is endless of comparisons that can be seen between the movies and the ‘real world’.

This now brings about the mother of all movies which talk about the infringement of the movies into our lives, The Matrix.

While evidence does not quite show that we are living in the Matrix (Matrix 1 obviously 2 and 3 were just crap), and I might on my saner days concede that we do not live in the Matrix, I do still wonder sometimes if we do.

Now if we did live in the Matrix, is this the way a ‘good’ machine is trying to warn us of the future of our world, is An Inconvenient Truth not so much about global warming, but the fact that our little tanks are over flowing, is Sex and the City not so much about Carrie Bradshaw and co’s obsession with marriage and sex, but more about the fact that the Matrix has been taken over by skinny, fashion deficient robots who lack emotional stability, and is the use of facebook the hardwire for them to read our minds more easily…………

Ummmmmmmmmm

Let us ponder on the pondering.

The cells of the world are filled with people who claim reading a book, watching a movie caused them to commit acts of unimaginable cruelty and evil.

If it is sometimes maybe true that the media predicts to some extent the way our world runs and tells us, should we be more aware, are we ignoring the fact that could it be that the movies are the predictors of the world future as a whole?