Part 1

(nequest)

The idea of the glitch gets further turned inside out later on in the Matrix trilogy, when Neo meets The Architect who explains that although the prophecy is that The One will destroy the Matrix, what he or she will really do is reboot it—causing everything to be destroyed and then created anew in a slightly different variation.  Among all the things accounted for in this new matrix will be a group of people destined to be the next rebel uprising. The truth is that there is no singular “truth”: all that exists outside the Matrix is another Matrix—similarly, there is no such thing as being outside of reality—our efforts to deconstruct it are what build it back again, efforts that begin with our awareness of the system as a system that can never be fully eradicated.  Something always escapes—something unexpected—like an accident or another kind of surprise—a tiny bit of slippage that’s able to regenerate itself.

Is it possible that this understanding about the value of mistakes, glitches, accidents and our inability to make anything (or anyone) truly gone for good has effected our collective attitude to such a degree to have fundamentally changed the nature of that reality?