Dish Network TV, The Matrix and Plato's Republic

The worlds of Dish Network TV, the Matrix and Plato’s Republic all border around the issue of human experience and some discuss how real any of these experiences really are or really are not. The subjective world of the imagination is so important to philosophers and thinkers around the world and throughout human history that nation states have risen and fallen, men and women enslaved and freed, all based on the answer to one basic question, what is human experience? The Matrix is a movie common to almost everyone that uses the internet today, but the basic question it asks about who and what we are as a civilization are as basic as the Republic of Plato more than 2,500 years ago in the city of Athens.

Dish Network TV as The Matrix

Dish Network TV as the Matrix provides an experience that is so intense it seems real. But is it real? "The Matrix is a world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth" – Morpheus. Does that make the Matrix any less real? Perhaps, perhaps not. It just depends on what we think reality is. At the same time Morpheus was willing to disbelieve in the Matrix, he was willing to believe in the Oracle. So it gets a little fuzzy. Or perhaps a little more clear? Paradoxes. But the fact that we are not plugged into the Dish Network TV against our own free will is what makes all the difference in the world. We may not yet be able to pipe digital video satellite transmissions directly into our cerebral cortex, but we certainly do become one with what is happening on the screen. The reason for this is because thousands of years ago, an ancient art was created by poets and statesmen. The Art of Rhetoric.

Dish Network TV as Plato's Republic

Rhetoric is a natural way to transmit thoughts and feelings unto others. Rhetoric is the art of speaking in front of people. The art of convincing someone of something. Unfortunately, it is the fundamental tool of democracy, politicians and lawyers, who have not always used it in the name of liberty. Tools can be used to cut bread between nations or cut human flesh. Dish Network TV proudly cuts bread. Not merely between nations, but amongst the citizens of the world. Rhetoric is used in Dish Network TV as Plato's Republic uses the art of rhetoric to establish a link. A link between the experience of a professional, and our own. In book VII of the Republic, Plato uses characters to tell us of the Demiurge (God) and the cave. According to the tale of the cave, the philosopher was able to realize that reality is God's paradise, and this world of flesh is but a shadowed illusion of God's ideal world.

Is The Dish Network TV Experience Real?

And then the ultimate question we ask: is the Dish Network TV experience real? For that matter is this world real? Are dreams real? In the end, physical laws and science state that sensations like taste, smell, touch, hearing and sight are all mechanical things. From the time the light hits the monitor, to the time it hits your retina, to the time it travels your nervous system, to the brain, along with all the other sensations (keyboard, mouse, music, etc), finally a filter in your mind recognizes the words and makes sense of it all. That takes time. Even though they are fractions of a split second, it is a lapse of time none the less is it not? So, then all experience is in the past? NO. Ultimately, experience is only in the mind. Dish Network TV is real because it happens naturally in our minds. Rhetoric is a tool that obeys Mother Nature and opens our species to the power of perfect communication.

Dish Network TV is a revolution in communication and the transmission of thoughts and feelings. Dish Network TV uses our natural way of learning new things in order to transmit what other people are thinking and feeling all over the world. But the most important part of Dish Network TV is that they broadcast exactly what people want, need and have to say. Meanwhile, we, as televiewers, choose of our own free will, what and when we want to watch. With that freedom comes a responsibility. A responsibility that Dish Network TV, the Matrix and Plato's Republic all use to cut bread between nations.

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