MATRIX WARRIOR

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Foreword
'Not Just a Movie, It's an Experience !'
When the movie The Matrix came out in Easter 1999, millions of viewers responded
enthusiastically to the kick-ass special effects and audacious plotting, and expressed their
gratitude for what they perceived - rightly - as a superior piece of Hollywood entertainment. A
small handful of viewers, however, persons of unorthodox points of view whose ranks
nonetheless appear to be steadily expanding with every passing year, found something in the
movie besides a mere divertissement. They found a message.
Most of these folk are still in their teens and may have been as young as ten or twelve when
they first saw the movie that changed their lives. Many of them probably do too many
psychedelics and certainly smoke too much pot, play too many sinister video games, spend
too much time alone, and rarely, if ever, read a book. Admittedly, there are some discerning
adults who grokked the movie's 'message', but they are definitely in the minority. The greater
part of adult viewers, being grown-ups after all, lacked the flexibility, imagination, and
perhaps also the disenchantment, necessary to receive the movie at a deeper, allencompassing
level — as 'truth'. Thousands, maybe millions, of adolescents and teens,
however, already predisposed towards the notion that reality is 'fucked' beyond all
redemption, embraced The Matrix body and soul and swallowed the red pill eagerly, without
hesitation or regret. The rest of us, like the movie said, just weren't ready to be unplugged.
The possibility that everything in the movie might be absolutely and totally true, albeit in a
disguised and distorted fashion, was a possibility too tantalizing, too satisfying, too damn
rebellious and radical for many youngsters to resist. They took the movie on whole, and
adapted their Weltanschauungs accordingly. The Matrix, then, was more than just another
sci-fi mind-fuck movie: it was a signal, sent from the real world (the world of Morpheus, Zion,
and the Nebuchadnezzar) down into this illusory labyrinth world in which we are all ensnared.
It was sent in order to alert us as to the nature of our predicament, and provide us with the
necessary clues by which to get out, while there is still time, and make it back to reality.
Such a belief may not be as deranged as it at first appears, nor necessarily a cause for
concern on the part of these kids' parents, already fearing that the gulf between the
generations is extending into infinity. These kids may be crazy but they aren't stupid. They
know all about myth and legend, even if they don't know Pan from Dionysus or Jung from
Joseph Campbell. They know about intellectual exercises, or head games as they call them,
and they know that all of this is metaphor. They grok instinctively that the message will have
lost a great deal of its purity by being filtered down to us through the various media channels
- i.e., the matrix - but appreciate that the essence, miraculously, has survived intact. This
essence might be reduced to three basic facts or acceptances:
1 This world is a prison, a world woven out of our own thoughts, dreams, fears, and desires,
in order to blind us to the truth of ourselves.
2 We are slaves. We have no more say in our choices, our lives and our destinies, than cattle
that are herded, or chickens in their coop. We are at the mercy of forces we cannot even
begin to comprehend, forces that definitely do not have our welfare at heart.
3 Humanity is a food source, and the world as we know it is simply the elaborate, intricate
mechanism by which we are distracted from this fact: the world is a farm, and we are the
livestock. All our dreams, then, are dreams of meat, on its way to being eaten.
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