Continuing with the idea of life being metaphorically reflected in our art and literature, I refer back to The Matrix (the first original film) again today, as I more and more realize the metaphorical truth of that film. Let’s take the part in The Matrix where Neo meets Morpheus for the first time:
Finding themselves in a room of decay, with a thunderstorm brooding outside, Morpheus greets Neo, and tries to explain the concept of the Matrix to Neo, referring to ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
“The Matrix is everywhere. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth”, Morpheus says, mirror glasses fixed firmly on Neo.
Neo is dumbfounded, “what truth?”
Morpheus smiles, “that you are a slave Neo. Born into bondage…born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch…a prison for your mind”.
Morpheus offers Neo the ultimate choice, metaphorically reflected in the blue pill, or the red pill. Neo chooses to ‘know’ by taking the RED pill, and as Cifer explains, “buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, ‘cause Kansas is going bye-bye” (ode to ‘Wizard of Oz’, another film reflecting our fooled existence).
Neo starts experiencing what can be likened to a psychedelic experience – the world around him morphs (Morpheus is the giver of this gift – see the connection again?) – and soon, he finds himself in a bleak reality: billions of humans are kept in a dream state, so that the machines can use them as energy sources.
And just how does this explain our situation you might ask. Well, it goes something like this:
The average human being is born into a family already in dept; dept on the house, the car and credit cards. This is because these things, are just too expensive to buy cash, as wages are too low. Thus mom and dad go to banks and other financial institutions to ask (beg) for a loan, which comes at no cheap price – you pay high interest on that loan; a loan or loans that stretches over time spans of 5 to 40 years. But as inflation is a major problem – everything keeps on getting more expensive, and your wages lag behind – you need to re-loan time and time again. In the end, mom and dad slave away their whole life, in order to survive. And you – born into this already indebted situation – start with a drawback. Most families cannot afford proper healthcare or education. This leads to lagging behind your privileged peers, born into wealthy families.
But you’ll say – this is the democratic way. The hard workers become wealthy, and the lazy ones lag behind. This is utter nonsense. Take nurses for instance: they work long and tedious hours, caring for patients in need, and get paid peanuts. The same goes for teachers, paramedics, firemen, police officers…all very important and noble hard workers, who barely survive the loan scam.
But then you’ll say, this is just the way the world works. Ah, now why does it work this way? Who or what makes the world work this way?
This will be revealed in tomorrow’s blog post…in the mean time, have a look at this news clip:
Finding themselves in a room of decay, with a thunderstorm brooding outside, Morpheus greets Neo, and tries to explain the concept of the Matrix to Neo, referring to ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
“The Matrix is everywhere. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth”, Morpheus says, mirror glasses fixed firmly on Neo.
Neo is dumbfounded, “what truth?”
Morpheus smiles, “that you are a slave Neo. Born into bondage…born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch…a prison for your mind”.
Morpheus offers Neo the ultimate choice, metaphorically reflected in the blue pill, or the red pill. Neo chooses to ‘know’ by taking the RED pill, and as Cifer explains, “buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, ‘cause Kansas is going bye-bye” (ode to ‘Wizard of Oz’, another film reflecting our fooled existence).
Neo starts experiencing what can be likened to a psychedelic experience – the world around him morphs (Morpheus is the giver of this gift – see the connection again?) – and soon, he finds himself in a bleak reality: billions of humans are kept in a dream state, so that the machines can use them as energy sources.
And just how does this explain our situation you might ask. Well, it goes something like this:
The average human being is born into a family already in dept; dept on the house, the car and credit cards. This is because these things, are just too expensive to buy cash, as wages are too low. Thus mom and dad go to banks and other financial institutions to ask (beg) for a loan, which comes at no cheap price – you pay high interest on that loan; a loan or loans that stretches over time spans of 5 to 40 years. But as inflation is a major problem – everything keeps on getting more expensive, and your wages lag behind – you need to re-loan time and time again. In the end, mom and dad slave away their whole life, in order to survive. And you – born into this already indebted situation – start with a drawback. Most families cannot afford proper healthcare or education. This leads to lagging behind your privileged peers, born into wealthy families.
But you’ll say – this is the democratic way. The hard workers become wealthy, and the lazy ones lag behind. This is utter nonsense. Take nurses for instance: they work long and tedious hours, caring for patients in need, and get paid peanuts. The same goes for teachers, paramedics, firemen, police officers…all very important and noble hard workers, who barely survive the loan scam.
But then you’ll say, this is just the way the world works. Ah, now why does it work this way? Who or what makes the world work this way?
This will be revealed in tomorrow’s blog post…in the mean time, have a look at this news clip:
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