![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I've been thinking lately a lot about control and power. What does it mean to be in control? What does it mean to have power? How can control and power be used effectively and when should they be relinquished.
The core of this idea was articulated, very poorly, in the second Matrix movie when Neo and the Counselor discussed being in control of the machines and how, even in Zion, they were dependant upon machines for their very existence. Neo said that control was the ability to turn the machines off.
Many of the people I know, whose ideas I value, I talk to via a machine. Makes you think.
I also wonder what it is to be in control of the self. Where should the line between impulse and natural behavior, and training and control fall? How much should bodies and minds be "trained," and if they are thus, can you really say that you are you anymore?
...these are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.
The core of this idea was articulated, very poorly, in the second Matrix movie when Neo and the Counselor discussed being in control of the machines and how, even in Zion, they were dependant upon machines for their very existence. Neo said that control was the ability to turn the machines off.
Many of the people I know, whose ideas I value, I talk to via a machine. Makes you think.
I also wonder what it is to be in control of the self. Where should the line between impulse and natural behavior, and training and control fall? How much should bodies and minds be "trained," and if they are thus, can you really say that you are you anymore?
...these are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.
