As I sat there wondering how to explain the latest twist in the US presidential
election, this story popped up on my Twitter feed: Bank
of America analysts claim there’s a 50% chance we live in a “Matrix reality
simulation”.
Aha!
As I read, it all began to make “sense”:
“Top bank analysts claim there’s a 50% chance our world is a computer simulation
and we’re all plugged into a Matrix-style virtual reality.
“And they also reckon if it’s true – then there’s no way we’ll ever find
out about it.
“The Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch made the astonishing claim in a research
note citing comments by top scientists, astrophysicists and philosophers….
“It said: ‘Many scientists, philosophers, and business leaders believe that
there is a 20-50% probability that humans are already living in a computer-simulated
virtual world. In April 2016, researchers gathered at the American Museum of
Natural History to debate this notion.’”
There’s no need to debate this notion any longer, because there is indeed a
way to discover whether it’s true. One merely has to read sports reporter Cindy
Boren’s recent article
in the Washington Post – a “respectable” newspaper – to confirm this
theory as fact:
“Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who has made the NFL so uncomfortable
with his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of deceased
players, suggests that Hillary Clinton’s campaign be checked for possible poisons
after her collapse Sunday in New York.
“Omalu, whose story was famously told in the movie ‘Concussion’” made the
suggestion on Twitter, writing that he advised campaign officials to ‘perform
toxicologic analysis of Ms. Clinton’s blood.’
“The suggestion was greeted somewhat skeptically in the replies.
“But this is Omalu, whose credentials and tenacity are well known. He wasn’t giving
up on Twitter, adding that his reasoning is that he does not trust Russian President
Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee who has
expressed admiration for Putin.
“Putin, as The Washington Post reported, was implicated by a British inquiry
in January in the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB operative,
in London in 2006.”
How in the name of all that’s holy did this article make it past the editors
of the Washington Post? This is a question that one might ask if journalists
were living in a rational universe – but are they? I would submit that the answer
is an emphatic no.
Either the Matrix theory advanced above is correct, or – and this seems more
likely – the media is so unhinged by TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome – that
“reporters” are no longer able to distinguish fantasy from reality. And it isn’t
just the Post: the Boston Globe, not to be outdone in the…