About The Matrix

People behave like puppets guided by a virtual puppet-player, like androids guided by The Matrix or adapted citizens guided by man-made rules and requirements . They don't think themselves but others do that for them and state the way they have to live. And God spoke: "where are you Adam, but he only sees" christians, lawyers, Americans, women, fathers, patients, scholars, and almost countless others masks and complicated mixtures of them and many many more androids, but there are no more men. And for generations and generations people have excreted the work of their hands and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit and there is no profit under the sun. But their idols are silver and gold ( and machines, computers, cars, guns, ships and planes, cities etc.) the work of men's hands….they that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. Working is for the fools. Smohalla, Skokulk-chief spoke in 1850 the memorable words: "Our young men never will work. Men who work cannot dream and wisdom comes to us in our dreams". Every culture is a mistake.

We wrote a comment on the essay by W.Keith Beason, about Baudrillard and The Matrix, published at http://www.matrixfans.net/symbolism/ :

Dear W. Keith Beason,

We did read your critical essay about Baudrillard in The Matrix and we have some marginal notes to it. Baudrillard proclaimed that our world is no longer really "real" but he didn't show at what moment the world split into two worlds and I guess the problem is he isn't radical enough. Indeed there are two worlds, the real world wherein everything is as it is and the world as people perceive the world, filtered by their paradigms. Baudrillard forgot when he was a small boy he only lived in one world and there was only one reality for him, no future nor past troubled him, and he was living in a eternal present. But his parents, plugged in the Matrix, that complicated system of tradition, rules, moral, unspoken codes, customs, constructed and justified by scientific theories and religious systems, (Germans name it the Zeitgeist) broke his self-image and so his image of the world in two. Parents sacrifice their children to the Matrix by filling their heads with that stuff that makes docile and uncritical consumers and credulous worshippers of a self-created world. Only split people fit in a split world. And it is not an existential melancholia but a nostalgia to the lost paradise and the unbroken world people are troubled with. Plato's Allegory of the Cave shows the way people are chained to the wall and they believe they see the real world. The myth tells how dangerous it is to escape from the cave and the herd and how difficult it is trying to free the chained. Indeed you first have to realize you live in a dreamworld, like Leonardo da Vinci wrote: "We all are exiles living inside the frames of a strange painting. He who knows this lives grandly. The rest are insects". So you first have to realize you are plugged into the Matrix by which you do what you won't to do and do not what you really want to do. In his time Sigmund Freud still named the Matrix the Super-ego as a common multiple or resultant of all individual ego's and mutual they maintain each other. Imprisoned in their cage, shackled to the Matrix, people talk about freedom and they do believe and they even name it freedom in restraint. It is dangerous to leave the cave or trying to free yourself from the Matrix for most of the people who try to escape are captured by the Agents and are locked in our mad-houses and rechained to the wall, adapted by psychiatrists and other therapists to society again. A huge "health"-industry is needed to fight the symptoms of all victims of the Matrix for there are only losers. Sometimes someone escapes and beholds reality and people name him a mystic and they love the beautiful words and poems by which he tells about the other world. That's the way the plugged ones render him harmless. So it's not enough to escape for you feel it like a mission to go back into the cave to free the chained ones. First then you see the Matrix in his horrible, all-enfolding and all-guiding omnipotence. You first have to step out of the system to describe the system, for as long as you are a part of the system your description of the system is not objective. Then starts the task to decode and decipher the Matrix and that is a hell of a job. After our escape we puzzled more than twenty years to construct the key to decode the Matrix and we experienced people are not "not ready to be unplugged" but only mortally afraid. We mapped out the Matrix but for years we couldn't find the right form and we knew we were not allowed to make even one mistake. We found out the Matrix totally is based on and penetrated by the Judeo-Christian thinking and that it is the cement of the Colossos with feet of clay. And we knew we had to defeat our enemy with his own weapons. Some three years ago we understood we had to use the metaphore of the Gospel of Thomas and we wrote the elucidations of the secret words. Ultimately the people who created the figure of Jesus to hang on their manual to escape from the Matrix saw what we see and experienced the way we experience the world. We realize how dangerous it is what we do and therefore we operate absolutely anonymous, sly as snakes and harmless as doves. For us everybody is a potential Agent, for all people are linked to the Matrix and we never do know if they choose for freedom or for the apparent security of the Matrix. Even we are not sure there isn't a Cypher among us.