New Matrixism Following the 'Path of the One' to enlightenment

Take the blue pill, the story ends and you wake up in your bed believing whatever you want to.  Take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.  ... Remember, all I'm offering is the truth.

In the Matrix, Morpheus gives Neo a choice of taking the red pill or the blue pill.  The immediate truth that Neo seeks is the answer to the question, "What is the Matrix?"  In taking the red pill, that question is answered for Neo.  In turn, Neo finds out answers to a lot more questions than he originally had.  He found out the answers to: "What is reality?"  and "Why am I here?"

We all are constantly making the choice, at a subliminal level, of taking the red pill or the blue pill.  Do we want to accept what goes on around us is truth, is reality?  Or would we rather discern the difference between the world as it is portrayed to us and what the world really is.

From childhood many of us were given a sugar-coated view of the world.  It starts with parents trying to protect us from the evils that exist not only in countries on the other side of the globe, but also of the evils hiding behind every proverbial bush.  We go to school and are given lessons about all aspects of the world; about science, about history, about politics.  Even these lessons are homogenized and sterilized by people who think they know what we should be learning and not because it is what we really should be learning.  

By the time we grow up into adults we have such a skewed, fictitious view of the world we might as well be in the Matrix.  For those of us not satisfied with being dumb, yet feeling happy, we start looking critically at the world and wondering why things are this way.  We stop accepting what we were told by others and start deciding for ourselves how things are.  We begin to have our questions answered.  We begin to understand the truth.  

The truth is that the world is not simple, friendly place.  It is full of evil, full of bad people doing bad things.  It is full of people intent on maintaining power for themselves and not to serve the greater good of society.  Unfortunately, not very people see this truth.  Only a few people  are truly enlightened to the fundamental fact that this world is not being run for our benefit.  We of those select few must do what we can to raise awareness, to make others ask the questions that we have asked and answered, to allow others to answer the questions for themselves, to bring society towards a greater level of enlightenment.

We cannot expect everyone to be free and see the truth in the world.  However, in time, if we are to survive we must work toward that goal as if it were achievable.  To do otherwise means the death for us all.