Ezechiel
Paranormal Adept
I couldn't help being compelled by the stunning correlation between 'The Matrix' and ufology. If there is an ET reality out there occasionally poking us, then there obviously exists a high potential for humanity being shaken and waked up as base-level subserviant objects in a much grander exploitative scheme of things. In that context, predicting a degrading effect on the human psyche is a no-brainer.
What if: project blue book was really project blue pill.
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The Matrix is a film filled with religious and philosophical symbolism. The plot supposes that humans live in vats many years in the future, being fed false sensory information by a giant virtual reality computer (the Matrix). The perpetrators of this horror are machines of the future who use humans as a source of power. Humans are literally farmed.
The central character of the film, Neo, is presented to us in the opening part of the film as a loner who is searching for a mysterious character called Morpheus (named after the Greek god of dreams and sleep). He is also trying to discover the answer to the question "What is the Matrix?"
Morpheus contacts Neo just as the machines (posing as sinister 'agents') are trying to keep Neo from finding out any more. When Morpheus and Neo meet, Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question "what is the Matrix?" (by removing him from it) and the blue pill simply for life to carry on as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill Morpheus warns Neo "Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."
The film as a whole and especially the choosing scene is deeply compelling. Why is the choice between what you believe you know and an unknown 'real' truth so fascinating? How could a choice possibly be made? On the one hand everyone you love and everything that you have built you life upon. One the other the promise only of truth.
The question then is not about pills, but what they stand for in these circumstances. The question is asking us whether reality, truth, is worth pursuing. The blue pill will leave us as we are, in a life consisting of habit, of things we believe we know. We are comfortable, we do not need truth to live. The blue pill symbolises commuting to work every day, or brushing your teeth.
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In the last 100 years, we've witnessed a quantum jump in technological complexity. Imagine, for a moment, the effect of similar progress in the context of a 14 billion year old universe. IMHO, acknowledging non-human near-earth intelligent activity is really a confirmation that we are potentially at the bottom of a galactic food chain... does humanity really need this
From a 'red pill' viewpoint, there is no choice in believing that someone has decided we don't need to know, and this ignorance must be preserved at all cost.
What if: project blue book was really project blue pill.
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http://www.arrod.co.uk/essays/matrix.php
The Matrix is a film filled with religious and philosophical symbolism. The plot supposes that humans live in vats many years in the future, being fed false sensory information by a giant virtual reality computer (the Matrix). The perpetrators of this horror are machines of the future who use humans as a source of power. Humans are literally farmed.
The central character of the film, Neo, is presented to us in the opening part of the film as a loner who is searching for a mysterious character called Morpheus (named after the Greek god of dreams and sleep). He is also trying to discover the answer to the question "What is the Matrix?"
Morpheus contacts Neo just as the machines (posing as sinister 'agents') are trying to keep Neo from finding out any more. When Morpheus and Neo meet, Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question "what is the Matrix?" (by removing him from it) and the blue pill simply for life to carry on as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill Morpheus warns Neo "Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."
The film as a whole and especially the choosing scene is deeply compelling. Why is the choice between what you believe you know and an unknown 'real' truth so fascinating? How could a choice possibly be made? On the one hand everyone you love and everything that you have built you life upon. One the other the promise only of truth.
The question then is not about pills, but what they stand for in these circumstances. The question is asking us whether reality, truth, is worth pursuing. The blue pill will leave us as we are, in a life consisting of habit, of things we believe we know. We are comfortable, we do not need truth to live. The blue pill symbolises commuting to work every day, or brushing your teeth.
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In the last 100 years, we've witnessed a quantum jump in technological complexity. Imagine, for a moment, the effect of similar progress in the context of a 14 billion year old universe. IMHO, acknowledging non-human near-earth intelligent activity is really a confirmation that we are potentially at the bottom of a galactic food chain... does humanity really need this
From a 'red pill' viewpoint, there is no choice in believing that someone has decided we don't need to know, and this ignorance must be preserved at all cost.
