How To Escape The Matrix

in #philosophy7 years ago

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How can you escape something that is all pervasive? And if extracted, how can you walk amongst the body-snatched without their notice?

The Matrix is the images our mind constructs when forming our perception of reality and the emotions we attach to the situations that are constructed in the mind.

Escaping the Matrix is only a matter of knowing that it’s there and avoiding its call, but once acknowledged, it can create disruptions in all other parts of life.

Simply stated, The Matrix foundation is built on lies and suppression, put in place in order to control and manipulate. It relies on a mindset mired in convenience, convention and ‘fairness’. The mindset that cheered the microwave oven and pre-packaged foods. The mindset that lowered standards to be more inclusive of lesser talents. The mindset that watered-down and eliminated responsibility, always offering a bacteria-killing, money back guarantee with free membership. The mindset that denies reason. The mindset that sacrifices itself. The mindset that belongs to someone else.

But the Matrix protects us from harm and keeps us safe in our honeycomb homes.

This, the same wonderful Matrix that reminds us when our Mother’s birthday is, warns us about speed traps and saves us time by eliminating routes, options and possibilities. The thoughtful Matrix that suggests products to buy, movies to see and people to befriend. It will even deliver food to our upturned mouths if we allow it. The wise, all-knowing Matrix that tells us when to laugh, cry or resist. The progressive Matrix that redefines our words and histories just so we’re all on the same page.

But the Matrix is more than something we can turn on or off. It is a system that creates manufactured belief systems that are designed to turn against us if it finds we are resisting its ill effects. It protects, archives, and verifies as well as reports, trolls, monitors and bullies.

To escape the Matrix we must understand perception and purpose. It would be unfair to elaborate at length as some things are meant to be pondered, to be respectfully considered and given the time due it by each person who walks a path that leads them to consider these things. So the initiate thinks and reasons.

The initiate must understand how perceptions are manipulated by technology, media and psychological operations; that the intangible is exploited to induce fear. He understands that he lives in a world where there’s always another reason, a back-up story or handy alibi. He is a pre-packaged sandwich in a little used vending machine, a pill to be taken on Wednesday mornings, the ‘x’ occupying seat 11-C.

We are living during a time where we can see a visible rift in realities, a glitch in the system that can only be camouflaged by the passing of time and people forgetting about everything that came before. This is a time now of restructure and reprogramming, a time when those who can see are looked upon with disdain and dread.

If a proper and conscious perusal of the entryways and backdoors of the Matrix were performed, the enterer would find himself like Alice falling head over heels down a rabbit hole of impossible darkness. So dark that penetration may seem unlikely, for this is the type of darkness where lies deceit and treachery. In these recesses reside horrors of a most unspeakable nature.

In this dark, yet enlightening moment in our history, those paying careful attention can actually see through walls, predict the future and get a good upskirt of the Matrix. And once exposed to her fictions, enjoy a life then riddled with the quick on-set of decay. Marvel at the speed in which life withers, like fast motion film of rotting fruit, making way for something else that will last and hold up to scrutiny.

How could things have gotten to this? How is it that we wake up each morning rubbing our hands together, not to warm them, but to scheme and war game? Is it to correct the psychic imbalance? To make up for universal wrongs? Wrongs so consistent and obscene that they can only be described as evil.

The Matrix reveals the sublime depths of evil and our equally far reaching capacity for denial. We either dismiss what we learn and contribute to a realm of blindness, strengthening the Matrix or we begin asking deep purposeful questions.

As we embark further down the rabbit hole, we understand that this is a time for self reflection and discovery. It’s that ‘alone time’ we’ve been hearing so much about. It’s a time to take control of the narrative. It’s a time to know yourself. It’s a time to experience your story, not the story of the Matrix.