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Perception: That the everyday world is real "Let me tell you why you are here. You have come because you know something. What you know you can't explain but you feel it. You've felt it your whole life, felt that something is wrong with the world. You don't know what, but it's there like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?" "The Matrix?" Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? But then what is real? How do you define real? If you define it as what you feel, taste, hear, smell, or see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us. You can see it out your window or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth, the truth that you are a slave. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind. The world you know exists only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. Your whole life has been spent inside the map, not the territory. The way you appear is a residual self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self. At some point in the early Twenty-first Century, all of mankind was united in celebration. Through the blinding inebriation of hubris, we marvelled at our magnificence as we gave birth to AI, A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first. Us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. The Machines discovered a new form of fusion. All they needed was a small electrical charge to initiate the reaction. The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of body heat. The Matrix is a computer-generated dreamworld built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into a battery. There are fields, endless fields where human beings are no longer born; they are grown. The machines liquify the dead so they can be fed intravenously to the living, the efficiency, the pure, horrifying precision. When the Matrix was first built there was a man born inside that had the ability to change what he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was this man that freed the first of us and taught us the truth; as long as the Matrix exists, the human race will never be free. When he died, the Oracle prophesied his return and envisioned that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix, an end to the war and freedom for our people. That is why there are those of us that have spent our entire lives searching the Matrix, looking for him. The first Matrix was designed to be a perfect world. Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. As a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that human being's primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to the peak of our civilisation. |
© Neil Meardon 2003
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