South Park did a take-off of Tron? I need to check that out.
As it is, I neglect this thread when I just don't know which way to go next.
I did re-discover an old topic from my days as a globe believer who read and re-read Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision.
He claimed that Venus had been "born" as a destructive comet-planet that lashed the world with rains of fire and brimstone.
Looking for more info about Venus as a recurring figure in ancient chronicles, I found very little to fit that idea (coherent catastrophism) into Flat Earth cosmology. Not surprising, though.
This is typical of the Control System. They feed us history as myth and fable, invent religions and fake science to keep us ignorant and obedient, provide wars and foosball to distract our little brains. Orwell calls the whole evil program the Ministry of Truth, which employs shills and other quislings who work for Big Brother.
But, at least they allow us slaves to see small pieces of the Big Picture.
Gnosticism is a cross between religion and philosophy. Aristotle and Plato, whoever/whatever they were, shared the gnostic view of earth as a plane over which 7 "spheres of influence" reigned. We call those structures the dome, or firmament.
Wiki has this to say about that.
First Ogdoad
In the earliest stages of that evolution we have (Iren. I. i.) eight primary Aeons constituting the first Ogdoad. The ultimate conception of God, named the Ineffable Father and who has existed since before the beginning, is described as Depth or Profundity (Bythos). All around him exists a female power that has been named Silence (Sige). These two deities, Depth and Silence, become the cause, through a process of emanation, of the other archetypal beings or Aeons. The Aeons are always born in male-female pairs (as syzygies), each of which is in itself a divine principle but at the same time represents one aspect of the Ineffable Father, who otherwise could not be described nor comprehended as he is beyond all names. The emanation takes place in the following manner: Depth-and-Silence gives birth to Mind-and-Truth (Nous and Aletheia), who gives birth to Word-and-Life (Logos and Zoe), who gives birth to Man-and-Church (Anthropos and Ecclesia). These Aeonic pairs comprise the Fullness of Godhead (Pleroma), and the first eight Aeons that have been expounded here are the Valentinian Ogdoad.[1]
What is all this ? New Age hype ? cults of brainwashed hippies ?
or a synthesis of simulation theory and Matrix computer program? or are they the same thing?
I'm inclined to see the creators as Advanced Being coders of a digital game in which we are their playthings.
In one world age reset, Venus was emanated as an aeon who Velikovsky misidentified as Athena, the goddess of war, and not Aphrodite, goddess of love.
The upshot was an exciting adventure called The Iliad, in which Athena fought alongside Greek warriors in the Trojan War.
This was the Age of Heroes. Too much blood and guts, maybe, or else the gamers decided a duller world was more better to play. ?