MATRIX WARRIOR

'under grace, there is no law.' And without rules, the matrix game is over.
Humility (patience)
Since it is humatons' egos or their sense of self-importance that provide their plug-in to the
matrix, the means by which it defines, restricts, and controls them, matrix warriors know that
the more they can reduce their egos, the less fixed or solid their sense of self becomes, the
freer they will be to reinvent themselves outside the malign influence of the matrix. To this
end, warriors remain humble, diffident, and self-effacing at all times. Even if a warrior is the
One, he never allows himself to feel more important than anyone else. The secret of being
special, after all, is in not dwelling upon it. (The truly special know they are quite ordinary.)
What makes Neo the One is that he has realized he is everything by realizing he is nothing.
Neo is not the only 'one', he is merely the first to realize it. One-ness is available to all.
Knowing this, that all are equal (equally unreal) within the matrix, matrix warriors humble
themselves. They do not expect or demand anything from anyone. Yet whatever comes their
way, being more than they expected, they make optimum use of. A warrior's joy comes from
the humility of knowing that he or she is no more nor less important that anything else in this
vast, mysterious, and wholly illusory universe. Hence, warriors enjoy the power of the mighty
star, that brings light to infinite darkness, and at the same time, have the freedom of the
microscopic atom, lost in the vastness.
Imagination
It would be fair to say that imagination is the sine qua non of unplugging from the matrix, the
essence of sorcery, and the means by which matrix warriors arrive at total freedom and the
totality of themselves. Imagination is also the quality that humatons can be said to be most
sorely lacking, for the very obvious reason that the matrix has hijacked this power for its own
uses. Humanity's power to imagine (the same quality sorcerers call will) is what distinguishes
us from all other creatures. It is our divine spark, and as such, it is the food which AI
endlessly covets to sustain itself, and which it uses to create its own imitation of life. AI has
robbed humanity of its imagination, its power to dream worlds out of nothingness, and used it
to spin the matrix world into being. Hence, humanity is caught in a vicious loop, a catch-22 of
cosmic proportions. It is humanity's hijacked will that has created the matrix, and the matrix
serves to sap humanity of this will in order to sustain itself. Yet this faculty of will/ imagination
is the only thing which can set humanity free again. Hence, there is no way for humatons to
break free of the matrix without recapturing their lost imagination, and there is no way to
recapture their lost imagination without first getting free of the matrix. For this reason, AI's
greatest desire is also its greatest fear. What sustains it may also destroy it, if given the
freedom to express itself creatively. Creative imagination is discouraged in the matrix above
all else: rationality and intellect rule. As Morpheus points out to Neo, however powerful the
Gatekeepers may be, they are still limited because 'they are based in a world that is built on
rules.' Neo and the other matrix sorcerers are not so restricted. There are no rules to the
imagination, or if there are, then they are infinitely more varied than those of reason. So
matrix warriors develop their creative imagination, knowing it to be the one thing the matrix
cannot counteract, since it has no means to predict or even comprehend it. There is no
rationale, no system, for it to compute. As such, AI is as helpless in the face of unfettered
human imagination as a doe frozen in the headlights of a ten-ton truck. Matrix warriors take
comfort knowing this, and in knowing that sooner or later, imagination will out.
Prowess
In the meantime, however, matrix warriors have their physical prowess to fall back on.
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