The Resurrected Matrix: The Kingdom of God
We live a world within a world. There is the cosmos, God’s creation, and there is culture, man’s creation. Today, culture, not cosmos, is what defines reality at any given moment in history. The cosmos itself does not define the world, but the images, ideas and institutions the people who inhabit the world discover, market, and institutionalize. What happens when our images, ideas and institutions undermine the world? What happens when the culture humans created is so far from the reality God created? How do you expose the destructive cultural patterns the culture has embraced as normative? Those who live and breathe the culture are the most blinded by its subtle chaotic messages. In order to expose the lies of today’s culture and resurrect the Kingdom matrix, the influencers must be influenced by counter-cultural influencers, the cultural lies must be attacked, but not those who embody the lies, and a new cultural force must partner with the existing cultural influencers or gatekeepers so that the lies of culture are pushed out to the margins and replaced by the new reality or matrix that has been marginalized.
Those inside the culture are the influenced. Their opinions don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Their job is to consume the material and moral culture. Like worker bees, the consumer’s job is to go out and make a paycheck and then bring it to the queen bees (or the stores that are strategically placed all through out culture). The only say, the worker bees have is who they are going to be influenced by. What brands (materials) are they going to wear, what computers are they going to buzz about? What cell phone are they going to text from? The moral culture is also being consumed. The influence on the moral culture is more powerful because it gets more air time. Commercials that advertise products are strategically placed between TV shows, movies, news, etc. TV shows are unconscious commercials. They give unspoken permission to the consumer to participate in whatever activity they see on the screen. The shows, movies, news, etc send subliminal messages on how to live. They sell lifestyles. They sell morals, values or lack of morals and values. TV shows and movies are internalized privately, and then externalized publicly.
Those standing outside the culture, or as some call the cultural gate keepers are the influencers. They are the dictators of culture. What they say goes. They have the money to turn ideas into reality. They have the power to influence the masses. They are the ones who introduce paradigm shifting products like the Internet, the I-Phone, etc. They create culture and sub-cultures. Their subcultures create subcultures and the whole time they are sitting back outside of culture and influencing.
The more people consume the created culture the influencers are selling both in material and moral packages, the more the lies are accepted as normative. Problems come when the influencers are liars, only selling half truths or no truth at all. The biggest influencers of today’s culture happen to be liars. Their lies set in motion destructive patterns in the cosmos. Their lies are driven by money. The more money they generate the more cultural capital they have with their cultural based audiences. The more cultural capital, the more they influence they obtain. You would think money is the end result, but it is not. Money is a means to an end. If money was the end, then someone or some institution with more of it would easily be able to expose the lie. The end is influence or cultural capital. The more cultural capital the influencers, on the outside of culture have, the more their lies are affirmed as normative and reality.
We live a world within a world. There is the cosmos, God’s creation, and there is culture, man’s creation. Today, culture, not cosmos, is what defines reality at any given moment in history. The cosmos itself does not define the world, but the images, ideas and institutions the people who inhabit the world discover, market, and institutionalize. What happens when our images, ideas and institutions undermine the world? What happens when the culture humans created is so far from the reality God created? How do you expose the destructive cultural patterns the culture has embraced as normative? Those who live and breathe the culture are the most blinded by its subtle chaotic messages. In order to expose the lies of today’s culture and resurrect the Kingdom matrix, the influencers must be influenced by counter-cultural influencers, the cultural lies must be attacked, but not those who embody the lies, and a new cultural force must partner with the existing cultural influencers or gatekeepers so that the lies of culture are pushed out to the margins and replaced by the new reality or matrix that has been marginalized.
Those inside the culture are the influenced. Their opinions don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Their job is to consume the material and moral culture. Like worker bees, the consumer’s job is to go out and make a paycheck and then bring it to the queen bees (or the stores that are strategically placed all through out culture). The only say, the worker bees have is who they are going to be influenced by. What brands (materials) are they going to wear, what computers are they going to buzz about? What cell phone are they going to text from? The moral culture is also being consumed. The influence on the moral culture is more powerful because it gets more air time. Commercials that advertise products are strategically placed between TV shows, movies, news, etc. TV shows are unconscious commercials. They give unspoken permission to the consumer to participate in whatever activity they see on the screen. The shows, movies, news, etc send subliminal messages on how to live. They sell lifestyles. They sell morals, values or lack of morals and values. TV shows and movies are internalized privately, and then externalized publicly.
Those standing outside the culture, or as some call the cultural gate keepers are the influencers. They are the dictators of culture. What they say goes. They have the money to turn ideas into reality. They have the power to influence the masses. They are the ones who introduce paradigm shifting products like the Internet, the I-Phone, etc. They create culture and sub-cultures. Their subcultures create subcultures and the whole time they are sitting back outside of culture and influencing.
The more people consume the created culture the influencers are selling both in material and moral packages, the more the lies are accepted as normative. Problems come when the influencers are liars, only selling half truths or no truth at all. The biggest influencers of today’s culture happen to be liars. Their lies set in motion destructive patterns in the cosmos. Their lies are driven by money. The more money they generate the more cultural capital they have with their cultural based audiences. The more cultural capital, the more they influence they obtain. You would think money is the end result, but it is not. Money is a means to an end. If money was the end, then someone or some institution with more of it would easily be able to expose the lie. The end is influence or cultural capital. The more cultural capital the influencers, on the outside of culture have, the more their lies are affirmed as normative and reality.
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