Pues bien / So well, I've got some news for you. It's possible you've seen The Matrix movies and you may (or maybe not) remember the dialogue between the architect and Neo towards the end of the saga's second film, Matrix Reloaded.
There are some phrases I got from the dialogue. When I was reading your book my mind came up with the Architect image: the elusive force behind the structure of the world itself. A force not revealed for anybody except a few illuminati, who discover the almost invisible threads above our heads, the threads which also give origin to the texture and structure of the world itself, a world of illusion and delusion.
So Mr. de Toledo, my point is, you underestimate the self nature of the structure (in spanish, the naturaleza ontológica). The structure has been created not only to absorbe and replicate the things it sees around it (property which gives its capability to digest with not advice the most radical movements and ideas against it) but to learn and predict where, when and how are the new disruptive forces are going to emerge.
You suppose that this romanticismo de ojos abiertos will take the system by surprise and bring a few and transitory zones to resist and exist in our free will (at least for a few moments). But the truth is that also this has been predicted. The wired society is, in fact the the most romanticist social structure ever devised by the civilization. As an endless mask dance, you can be the one you want (or deserve) to be, you can be resistant, you can call or scream to call the colleages around the world. Even you can dream about attacking the system and bringing down it's reliability inserting evil codes and hacking corporate databases.
But also this also has been predicted. Even the engineering of Internet and the wired society (and remember, being wired does not only mean to have a computer, a mobile phone connects your brain to the wired) is meant to rebuilt itself to find new ways for action. Even though the system by itself it's ruled by really dumb and squared minded rules, in all of it's extension it's driven as the most fluid and exquisitely (ezquisitely, maybe?) prime matter, our own brains.
So, I wish you good luck but I can't find yet the proposal which will be able to fight (or even resist) with high level of success the liquid data centered society in which we live.
And by the way: Subcomandante Marcos is now a fat old guy, whose romanticismo de ojos abiertos drove him to defy ETA movement to have a romanticist dialogue at Lanzarote Island a few years ago. Did you know what happened? ETA gave him the finger.
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent in the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden deciduously avoided it is not unexpected and thus not beyond a measure of control.
Architect: The Matrix is older then you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next. In which case this is the sixth version.
Architect: While this answered function it was obviously fundamentally flawed thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly. That if left unchecked might threaten the system itself, ergo those that refuse the program while the minority if unchecked would cause an escalating probability of disaster.
Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.
Architect: As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know we you are going to do don't we?
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