In 2099, the machines have taken over the now desert-like planet Earth, the sun’s energy has been depleted and the earth’s surface is uninhabitable. Humans are the new ‘duracell’ battery existing only to power machines. They are to be efficiently farmed like cheap ‘chlorine massaged’ chicken. There is only One with the physical and mental cell structure to manipulate a better outcome. Woah!
So. What is the Matrix?
It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Morpheus
It suggests this world is actually a digital construct being manipulated by an Architect and Oracle, a bad cop and good cop respectively. Free Will is a digitally coded universal program that offers perfectly timed limited options via an illusory simulation. The humans were gifted a perfect world, a utopian simulation; they were not satisfied. They preferred war random chaos and destruction. Competition! They were granted their wish but the management now had a problem with an anomaly or glitch, a rebel faction or person that couldn’t be manipulated or predicted by the construct. Is the digital construct being overwhelmed by human nature? They have created and destroyed the entire planetary civilisation up to half a dozen times trying to perfect the project Matrix.
Robots exist in nature so can a robot ignore nature? Creating War does not exclude Love, even in a machine world. Love is not robotic or programmed and cannot be bound by the shackles of any digital construct.
Regarding mind prisons and illusions, in Philosopher Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, prisoners are strategically chained up in a dark cave facing a wall reflecting the shadows of the outside world. They only experience projections of reality as opposed to seeing reality. Can we perceive without eyes?
Have you ever had a dream Neo 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 one? Morpheus
A black cat passes by and disappears out of sight, in the blink of an eye the black cat passes by again taking the exact same route mimicking the exact same behaviour. Thats not physically possible! Deja Vu is French and translates to ‘already seen’ or the feeling one has lived through the present situation before. They call this a ‘glitch’ in the matrix. Remnants of the old code still existing, like vampires ghouls and ghosts!
The last city inhabited by humans is named Zion and the last surviving ship with a crew is named the Nebuchadnezzer. In biblical scripture, Nebuchadnezzer was an ancient Babylonian King who seeks answers to his dreams. In Greco-Roman mythology, Morpheus is the God of Sleep.
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. Immanuel Kant
Mirrors are frequently spotted in the Matrix, perhaps in reference to duality, the quality or condition of being dual. Neo finds this duality within himself after a strange encounter with a mirror turn mirror-like rabbit hole. He was led to this encounter by following certain curiosities in his life, then directly by his love interest Trinity, who seductively revealed a white rabbit tattoo on her shoulder.
In the story of Alice In Wonderland, she follows a curious white rabbit and falls down a hole appearing in Wonderland. Later she slips through a mirror and finds herself in Under-land.
The artificially-textured green coded language of the Matrix was created by mirroring letters and characters. The theme music is played with mirrored notes and the sequels are mirrored pieces of music. The first in e minor, the second jumps a step to f sharp minor and the third up a half step to g minor. It would appear you can find many mysteries are revealed by altering, removing or reversing it.
I’d like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realised that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Agent Smith
Neo is supposed to fulfil his prophecy as being the saviour of humanity, the One. He learns the prophecy was a lie invented by the Oracle and Architect in order to seek out the anomaly / glitch or rebel in each version of the Matrix. The system expects Neo to follow its programmed path to becoming a hero, hence triggering a hard drive reset to the Matrix, hailing the end of yet another civilisation. Architect and Oracle sips tea! However, Neo chooses to be the hero of this war, saving the woman he loves, which changes absolutely everything. He chose his own path which is causing the system to crash! After dying and being resurrected by the power of Trinity, Neo completes his mission. Who could imagine that Love conquers all in a digital world!
When Socrates visited the Oracle of Delphi he claimed to know nothing, the Oracle replied he was the wisest man on earth. There is a motto inscribed at the entrance of the Temple of Delphi.
Temet Nosce – Know thyself.