Look at the power of a movie for example - let's see.. the
  Matrix is a good one. How many people have you known - and maybe
  you've done it yourself (I have!) - used the Matrix as a basis
  to illustrate life as it is or could be, and then get so caught
  up in it that we forget to come down to this planet and see
  things as they are?

  So easy to do. Power of fiction. Stories layer on top of the
  stories we see and tell ourselves about reality and they get
  mixed up, intertwined, indistinguishable from each other and
  hard to detangle. I find it's a constant and fastinating
  struggle to detangle, especially my own assumptions about the
  nature of things. Just when I think I've 'got it' I 'see' the
  analogy I was basing it upon, which takes the nice floor away
  and I have to start again. But I love it, because it allows for
  better analogies to form.

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