We have been "programmed" to know that "this is so and so", "this are our friends, they are good, so we should support them, but that are out enemies, they're bad, so we have to kill them", "to earn good money you have to learn and work hard", "life is hard and we can not have any control over it" and so on, and so on...
We do no longer see the reality through that program and we do not try to compare it, what we believe in, to what we have in reality.
For example, if we look at successful people, we'll see that "to earn good money you have to learn and work hard" if not so true.
And what is real? A little hint - try to remember how you looked at the world when you were 3 ? Did you love life, did everything look so mysteryose and fascinating at the same time? Did time feel kinda different, like Deja Vu ( a glitch in the matrix ), not like the way we feel it now?
Yet I do not think that anybody ever created this crippled form of society on purpose. There always have been people who had "light within them", as well as normal, lazy people, who are too lazy to think on their own, so they prefer the blue pill, to receive all their "knowledge" from someone else and stuck it into their kids.
Morpheus: I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole? Hm?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. 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?
Neo: The Matrix?
Morpheus: Do you want to know what IT is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now 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.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: 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 see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You 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, nothing more....
[edit on 29-12-2004 by bratok]
