I continue to think that the Matrix films were basically right, but in a way that, unsurprisingly is not apparent at first glance. In brief, if you ground yourself in the prevailing norms of this society, look to this sort of participation in the world to gain meaning from the world, and attempt to become skillful in this manner of life, you will miss the fundamental truths of existence. And yet the order of things is governed by those who have prevailed in the realm of the third. This is not a society in which you can live in the language's downtown. (And there are societies in which such things are possible.) Your truth must come from your house in the country.
