The Matrix has us...or....Do We have it?
By Torion83
@Torion83 (47)
United States
February 19, 2009 6:58pm CST
The matrix has you, those few words bothers so many people and yet they faile to understand what it means,If you are one of those people that wonder just what that Movie was talking about or maybe you think you know, I challenge you to answer the question above, does it have us or do we have it? and by the way it is real in one form or another if you dont belive me just as PLATO.
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@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
20 Feb 09
Our goal in life is to transcend the Matrix, but it's like anything-Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water, After enlightenment chop wood and carry water.
I think we have our moments in this life that we transcend the Matrix, but the reality is that this is life-the here and now. It is the same as when the young man told Neo that what he can bend the spoon when he realizes there is no spoon.
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@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
20 Feb 09
I think where Plato is concerned, that possibly it is a bit of both. I don't want to get too off The Matrix, but it strikes a similar thought to Fight Club as the main character keeps running to his cave because he can't face the truth. So perhaps in Neo's case this is also true. The Matrix has him until the day he is willing to face the truth. So many of us are caught in the Matrix because we refuse to face the truth, but yet we can transcend the matrix just as Neo did.
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@Torion83 (47)
• United States
20 Feb 09
But how many of us do you think is ready to face the truth? Ready to accept the fact that what we have been taught all or lives is just part of some system to keep us under control, behind a vaile of lies, and if we did transcend the "Matrix" what would we do? who would we become?
@Torion83 (47)
• United States
20 Feb 09
that Provokes a thought, now let me put one in your mind. Plato talked about something call allegoric and the cave and basicly it is the writers of the matrix attemt to make a visual of his phylosophy about faceing the truth that we only know what we are being taught, or in the case of the movie what we are being shown. There for the question still stand do we have it or does it have us?
@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
20 Feb 09
Are you following me? LOL Seriously though, I can see where some just want to watch a movie for movie sake, but I'll always be one to take that little bit extra they give.
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@Awen_Eldorath (107)
• United States
20 Feb 09
It's a very interesting and complex question. In the movie, at first the Matrix has Neo because he doesn't know the truth. As Neo begins to become more aware, he learns that it's possible to manipulate the Matrix in certain ways and spends a lot of time trying to have or control it. Yet, as the movies progress, we learn that there seem to be many layers to the Matrix and that it still has Neo. No matter where Neo goes or what he does, he keeps coming back to the Matrix; it's always there.
We can't have the Matrix that's illusory, because it's not real. But we can't have what's really real (the actuality) because it is the universe and everything in it, and everything exceeds our grasp. Perhaps what the movie is suggesting is that it's only when we let go, when we stop trying to "have it" and realize that there's nothing to have, that we truly have it all...and nothing. And maybe that is real freedom; the freedom to be Here, Now, awake and making the most of every moment to the best of our ability.
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@Torion83 (47)
• United States
20 Feb 09
Plato says that we only know what we have been told or shown, so in all truth the Matrix is real. Because we all have been taught or shown something in one way or another. and untill we can challange the "truth" we will continue to be prisoners of the systems of control. other wise known as the "Matrix".
