Yes, the matrix is real

[Dee Fatouros]

The Liberal Media ‘Matrix’

Column: Covington, Smollett, Mueller, Avenatti and other adventures in unreality

BY: Matthew Continetti
April 12, 2019 5:00 am

I used to laugh every time I heard someone like Elon Musk say that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation. These days, not so much.

Don’t call the funny farm just yet. On the major question of the nature of sense experience, I remain with Aristotle and against Bishop Berkeley. Matter is real. But there is also the question of how we perceive “the news”; how established media institutions present and frame information; how we are supposed to respond to the “takes” purportedly expert and knowledgeable voices serve up to us by the second on social media. And here, I’m skeptical.

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