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Steven Yates -- The Real Matrix, Part 1: "The Matrix -- which has begun to generate a secondary literature in academic disciplines like philosophy and cultural studies -- may be seen an allegory for our present situation after the past hundred-plus years. The allegory is about power and concealment. The 'real matrix' is then a world most of middle America takes for granted --a world where 'they hate us because we are free,' and where the public schools educate. A world where we can trust the federal government and believe Dan Rather. A world where the former obeys its founding document, the U.S. Constitution. In other words, a fantasy world. "