What Is The Matrix?

The most important question of our age may be: What is the matrix? In light of the rise in secular humanism, and the growing concerns over political, economic, and banking corruption worldwide, one must wonder... What is going on here? Why is the depravity so pervasive? What is causing this rise in corruption? Why are so many institutions no longer trusted by the public?

I first began to understand some things when I read a book called 1984 by George Orwell. I understood a bit more after reading another book called Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. These are two books written by atheists, ironically enough. A certain series of movies called the Matrix helped me understand more. Documentaries like Inside Job, Food Inc, Bowling for Columbine, For Liberty, Why We Fight, Endgame, Evolution vs. God, and Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed helped me to further understand more complex issues. And a big book called the Bible helped me put all the pieces together.

Let's go on a little journey. Scope out if you will, and try to look beyond the society. Look beyond the billboards, television screens, the bar grills, the sports fields, the church conferences, and the American dream.

What is really happening here? What is the truth? What is the matrix? Why is there a matrix? And how do we escape this matrix?

To understand how to truly escape the matrix requires an understanding of faith and spirituality. But I don't want to get ahead of myself. This will not be an attempt to logically prove that such a matrix exists. Anyone who investigates the entirety of the evidence, I believe, would have to come to the conclusion that there is a matrix of control. It manufactures consent. It builds the minds of young people to assimilate into the system. This essay will instead be an examination of some of the allegory found within the Matrix movies regarding the system of control and the key to it's defeat. If you've never viewed the Matrix trilogy then don't read any further; spoilers, and you won't be able to follow the ideas very well.

"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?" -Morpheus

Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—

I've always known, since age four or five, that something was very wrong with planet Earth. It didn't quite make sense. And so began a journey. For me, that was the journey that eventually led to the spiritual seeker mentality. It was the deepest sensation, very real, and based on intense observation, yet also an intuitive response: Something is wrong here.

World wars? Diseases? Those weren't even the first questions. The first question was why does going anywhere, doing anything require money? Why are so many resources directed towards what seem to be foolish pursuits? I remember wondering.. where is the community center? Where do people go to just talk, spend time together, without having to buy something or purchase a product? Well, there is no such place. No "city center" as I thought of it. There are restaurants where you pay, movie theatres where you pay, and many other establishments. No loitering. I found it confusing from a very young age. What's happening here? Is this right?

After reading books like 1984 and Brave New World I began to consider things on a larger scale. Why do nations war? If the nations are all in such debt, who are they in debt to? Why are all my friends so obsessed with trivial pursuits like clothes, sports, games, drugs, and brand names? Why are there television screens everywhere? Why do people have access to such information yet know so little? Even larger issues.. like Genocide. War. Sex slavery. Disease. Corruption. Poverty?