The Real Matrix

I believe that we live in a real matrix. This matrix is not controlled by artificial intelligence and machines. It is controlled by the wealthy elite, shadow manipulators, and government officials of the most powerful nations of the world. In the movie, machines controlled by artificial intelligence built a dreamworld for humans to keep them from waking up and discovering the truth. In our world, the media and our political leaders keep many people from waking up and discovering the truth. Here's a quote from the Matrix movie:

The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

In our system, there are people like Cindy Sheehan who want simple answers to the Iraqi question. What happens when people like Cindy take their questions to those in charge? They get attacked by those people on the political right who are still a part of the system. The same thing happened in the late 1990s when Bill Clinton had his little war in Kosovo. There were people out there who wanted to know why we were involved in Kosovo or why we bombed Sudan. What happened to these people? They were attacked by those people on the political left who are still a part of the system.

Just like in the movie, most of the people of America are so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will smear anyone who attacks it and fight to protect it. While political leaders like Bush, Reagan, Nixon and Clinton have behaved like they are above the law, regular people continue to abide by laws that our political leaders bend and break. Everything keeps going in cycles and the people act like they don't notice the continual cycles. Here's an example of a cycle I've noticed:

A Republican screws up and the Democrats proclaim that they are the only hope for progress in America. The people believe this and elect a Democrat. The Democrat abandons his campaign promises, ignores his grassroots support, wages overt & covert wars and does things that benefit the upper class. The Republicans rail against this and proclaim that they are the only hope for progress in America. The people believe this and elect a Republican. The Republican abandons his campaign promises, ignores the middle class, wages overt & covert wars and does things that benefit the upper class. Repeat Cycle

This has been going on in presidential politics for at least the past 30 years but the people stay docile, support the system, and keep participating in the cycle. The people of America are over taxed, manipulated, used, and abused by the system but they keep on believing in and supporting the system. I don't have all of the answers but I do know this. The people have to be willing to question everything. The people have to take control of their lives and change things. We have to stop thinking that we need things we could live without. Most people do not read the constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Here's a part of the DOI that we should take seriously:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

I believe that if Jefferson or any of the signers of the constitution were living today, George W. Bush would call them terrorist supporters. I'll stop here and save something for a future post. I leave you with this quote from John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.