John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream, and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”
I remember The Matrix fondly. And the halcyon time when the brothers who made that movie hadn’t had their genitals hacked off, and insisted on playing the scariest-looking sisters in show-biz outside Macbeth. I recall how rich the film seemed in potential implications. I even bought an anthology entitled Philosophy and The Matrix. Its essays wondered, learnedly, was the film crypto-Christian? Buddhist? Alt-right? Gnostic?
Parts II and III, alas, answered all those questions like a wet blanket dropped on a child’s flickering birthday cake. They showed us that Part One had meant nothing whatsoever. It just marketed generic paranoia and gender confusion (Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss seemed to morph into each other), in the midst of fun action sequences. And “Guns, lots of guns.” …