Discourses in Matrixism

You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming?    – Neo, The Matrix

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?  What if you were unable to wake from that dream?  How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?  –Morpheus, The Matrix

From Alice In Wonderland to The Wizard of Oz to The Matrix, literature is filled with instances where people find themselves having dreams they cannot differentiate from reality or wonder about whether what they are experiencing is real or not. At some point, probably many times, we have all waken in our beds with memories of vivid dreams that felt as if they were real as it was occurring. However, there comes a point in the path to enlightenment where we must look inside ourselves and answer the question: “Am I dreaming, even when I’m awake?” (continue reading…)

The world appears to be engrosses in the potential for the latest flu virus to become a pandemic causing mass deaths world-wide. At the moment there are more than 44,000 news articles on Google for “swine influenza.” There are concerns about whether to eat pork or not, determining what is a pandemic, and how to tell the difference between the symptoms of a swine influenza and the regular flu.

My question is, should we really care if it becomes a global pandemic killing millions of people? 

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First of all a little newmatrixism.com business.  We want to thank everyone who has been using our feedback system, providing us encouragement and suggestions on what to add to the site.  One suggestion was to add some forums so that everyone can more easily communicate.  That’s a great idea and one that we are working on.  Sometime in the coming week, we should have a forum online. ::crosses fingers::  If you have suggestions for what topics/boards there should on the forum or want to send us your comment we welcome it.  Use the ‘Feedback’ link on the newmatrixism.com homepage.

With the court verdict in on the gentlemen running The Pirate Bay I recently saw posted “The Hacker Manifesto.”  I first came across this piece of writing a number of years ago and felt it pretty inspiring and very much true to who I am.  I thought it apropos to discuss it here as the ideologies presented by “The Mentor” in this writing are ideologies that are supported by Matrixists.

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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.

This is where you will soon find “Discourses in Matrixism.”  It is here that we will discuss aspects of Matrixism, what it really means, and how you can use it to lead a better life.  

The first discourse, which should be posted soon will help you discover an important component of Matrixism, as we see it.  Recognizing the difference between truth and fiction; between fact and fantasy.  Not only in the world around us, but also how we perceive the world and our lives.