by Hari Heath, Dec – 2002 “Idaho Observer” (reprinted at Information Clearing House)
In the movie, when Morpheus is about to offer Neo the choice between either the red pill or the blue pill, he explains:
“You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain — but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life; that there’s something wrong with the world; you don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?”
“The Matrix,” Neo asks?
“Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. 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.”
And Neo asks, “What truth?”
“That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage; born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch; a prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to experience it for yourself.”
Civilisation, the culture of empire, can only function through the use of slaves. In some parts of the world this slavery is less concealed, while many of us live lives of apparent freedom, the matrix being almost completely concealed from us. Our own (inculcated) worldviews actually help to turn us into blue pill people – but some of us just feel that there is something wrong with this (civilised) world.
The corporate/government/financial interface combines to create a massive illusion of benefits — the American dream. For the price of a promise to indebt our future labors, pay our taxes and play within the system, there are seemingly limitless toys, castles, comforts and consumables for those who believe in this Matrix. For half our productivity taken in taxes (the other half in payments) and the deeds and title to whatever we think we own, government and its private affiliates will take care of us.
To live in this Matrix, all we have to surrender is any genuine sense of independence, personal responsibility and our right to live freely and actually own the fruits of our labors.
And, like in the movie, a contingent of agents are deployed to combat any renegade humans who have a will for freedom from the Matrix which surrounds us.
As Morpheus expiained, “The Matrix is a system Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds we are trying to save. Until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many are so hopelessly dependent on the system, they’ll fight to protect it.”
Why will blue pill people fight to protect a Matrix that enslaves them? It’s all they know. And all their toys, castles, comforts and consumables will be gone without the Matrix. Their whole illusionary existence will evaporate, leaving them naked and alone.
‘Theres lots of people worse off than you’ is the phrase that comes to mind. People who are actually worse off BECAUSE of our activities in the matrix. people who are lower down the heirarchy, and so of ‘lesser value’. People whose lives are impoverished and enslaved in more blatant ways by the system that rewords sociopathic behaviour.
Remember the detainment camps those paranoid conspiracy theorists told you about years ago?
U.S. officials claim they can detain and interrogate enemy combatants until the executive branch declares an end to the war on terrorism. This includes no access to lawyers or family members; investigations, interrogations, trials and punishments can be held without the protections secured by the Constitution. The Nazi/moron president’s administration says there is ample precedent for what it is doing. Are we following the “ample precedent” of a man named Hitler?
Meanwile, the Congress has passed the American Gestapo Authorization (Homeland Security) Act which defines a terrorist as:
“The term “terrorism’ means any activity that — involves an act that is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources; and is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State or other subdivision of the United States; and appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”
As a test for social compliance, 838 blue pillers recently passed blissfully through an unconstitutional random roadblock in Pittsburgh without “seeing” the real “terrorists” in Homeland Security’s new America — the police state (See page 22). Is our present police state “dangerous to human life” and “destructive of critical infrastructure” like the Bill of Rights? Is it “against the laws” (18 USC 241; 242) to deprive a citizen of their right to travel and be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects? Do random roadblocks, by design, “intimidate or coerce a civilian population?” What happens if you don’t comply with the roadblock?
What indeed? What do the people who gain the most from this civilisation always do to perceived threats to their power and authority?
How deep does the rabbit hole go? Near the end of the movie, the Matrix’s agent Smith acclaims the virtues of the Matrix to the captive red pill people’s leader Morpheus: “Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at is beauty; its genius? Billions of people, just living out their lives — oblivious.”
