Persistence is the art of self determination, right?
That has nothing to do with the topic header, I just needed to tell myself that.
I was contemplating one nondescript day, the difficulties of moving with true, anonymous freedom in our current world. I started to think about Frollo from Vitctor Hugo's tragic drama The Hunchback of Notre Dame, who had a mental breakdown and literally just hopped on a gondola and rode to the next town and essentially disappeared for many moments in the book. I was marveling at the freedom he experiences in the unsurveyed movement of his world. I feel pity for myself sometimes, because I live in the antidote to Gene Claude Frollo's emotional time away from his post; The landscape of The Matrix universe.
I've actually never seen a Matrix movie! I know, I know. In any case, I understand the metaphor it intends to share with it's audience and grasp the general plot. In this universe, I understand there to be no freedom of movement. No matter which world Neo participates in, he is being watched. His every movement is followed, every word heard, and so on. It's Orwell, with (more) guns. No mystery. What's fascinating is how already, our media is depicting restraints of movement in every liberally gesturing piece. Something so solipsistic is is being used to influence and suggest conditions of surveillance to millions. With no anecdote conversations, or no graphically obvious ones, we are far more likely to accept this state. 1984 can tell you much more about this than I can, which makes me glad art is always around to observe these political and social change.
I do not think Frollo would accept this level of surveillance (This is a joke, because he was an alchemist. Sorry. I'll go.).
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