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they have no such points (opinions, beliefs, etc) by which to define themselves. Ergo, they
cannot ever be offended, undermined, or assaulted.
6c) Third rule: Matrix warriors erase and invent themselves, endlessly
Having twigged the truth, and finally answered the question that haunted them, like a splinter
in their brain — What is the matrix ? - matrix warriors accept their whole lives as fiction, no
more than a story invented by others, with some limited input from themselves. Since their
whole lives have been founded on a sense of self that is itself illusory, and since this self in
turn is but the product of a life experience (routines, habits, etc) that never happened,
warriors are free to erase themselves at will. This they do by unloading all the baggage of
their 'experience'. All the beliefs and opinions that the matrix has programmed them with as a
means to enslave them to it, the warrior unloads. Reality is the self. Without a self, there can
be no reality. Accepting the ego as a necessary means to function within the matrix, warriors
nonetheless remould and reform themselves in any manner convenient to them. They create
a shroud of mystery around themselves. They quit the pernicious habit of thinking about
themselves constantly, without respite. All their thoughts come from the matrix in any case,
and the matrix cannot tell them who they are. So warriors refuse to listen to their thoughts,
and after a time these begin to lose their insistence, whereupon warriors begin to doubt just
who they are. Once again, matrix warriors function as if they knew, yet their actions become
progressively lighter, more fluid, spontaneous, and unpredictable. Now that they no longer
have any 'personality' (habits) to conform to, they are free to reinvent themselves.
6d) Fourth rule: Matrix warriors have nothing to lose or to gain, because the matrix has
nothing to offer them, and cannot take any more from them than it already has
Humatons are motivated above all by personal desire, and the insidious fear that their
desires will somehow be thwarted. They are defined by external goals, all centring around the
self, formed by the ceaseless pressure of this fear-desire mechanism within them. Humatons
act compulsively, mechanically, driven by emotional (though quiet) desperation into a state of
contained but constant frenzy. Matrix warriors, on the other hand, have no desires to speak
of. Having seen through the matrix, there is absolutely nothing they could ever want from it.
The only thing they desire is to be free from it; and since the matrix is maintained by desire
and the frustration of desire (and the fear of frustration of desire), the warriors' desire
amounts to no desire at all: the desire not to desire. Warriors act as if their acts had meaning
to them, as if they had something to gain by them; but in truth, since they know that their
death is stalking them and nothing in this world will shield them from it or lessen its sting, they
really couldn't give a fig. Matrix warriors act for the sheer hell of it. They are not selling,
because they have nothing but their impeccable spirit and their purpose, and these are not
for sale. They're not buying, either, because there is nothing else besides these that they
need. So they operate within the marketplace of the matrix as disinterested observers. Their
real business is not with humatons but elsewhere. The lack of covetousness or neediness in
their actions free the warriors to make the most of what they have. Since they want nothing,
anything that comes their way is a bonus, a gift in appreciation of their impeccable spirit. And
since there's nothing they covet or need, then whatever doesn't come their way is of no
consequence. It doesn't exist, in any case.
6e) Fifth rule: Matrix warriors conserve energy
Indifferent to and contemptuous of the trinkets and baubles of matrix life that humatons so
ceaselessly chase after, matrix warriors deal exclusively in a single currency: energy. They
know the matrix has been designed to sap them of their spirit and life-force, and so they start
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