"Please. Just listen. I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone and why, night after night, you sit at the computer; you're looking for him...The answer is out there, Neo. It's looking for you and it will find you..."In an essay on the official Matrix Web site, proto-cyborg Kevin Warwick complains about the movie's man-versus-machine approach to technology. "Neo is kidnapped by Luddites, dinosaurs from the past when humans ruled the earth," Warwick writes. "We really need to clamp down on the party-pooper Neos of this world and get into the future as soon as we can—a future in which we can be a part of a Matrix system, which is morally far superior to our Neolithic morals of today."
Slate.com asks, 'Is Warwick right? After all, if Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo succeed in their quest to liberate humanity from the machines, we'll all be left to eat slop in the dreadful real world of post-apocalyptic earth, rather than becoming fashionista superheroes in the fake world. What kind of liberation is that?
Fortunately, Neo's closing lines in the movie offer a way out of this dilemma. He addresses the machines that have enslaved humanity, and he offers them an olive branch: "I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
The implication is clear: Neo wants machines and men to coexist in peace. He doesn't want to destroy the Matrix. He just wants people to understand it so they can play with it and enjoy it as much as he does. He's an evangelist for the product.'
Similarly, we desire men to abandon imaginary faith, fanciful religion, and super-imposed realities of God, and to know the real God. However, this is often mistaken for a desire to eliminate God, rather than to scrape down past the false realities and get to the original Thing...the Prime Meaning.
Just as Trinity writes to Neo, "The answer is out there...It's looking for you...and it will find you."
Do we honestly believe in a God who is big enough to transcend the material reality around us? A God who is so far beyond us, that it makes our super-imposed existence of dry, dusty religion, a matrix of our own invention? This God's reality is the True reality.
It is the only thing worth fighting for...the only thing worth dying for. And he is searching for those whom he will draw to himself. He will find them out, and bring them from the system, and liberate them. He will welcome them to the real world and unite them in a common cause against the machines of deception.
Then, the liberated can laugh at the materialistic agents of this world and say, "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to...show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible."
Matthew 19:26
7 comments:
Dude, where do you come up with all of these ideas? You definitly have a much deeper-thinking mind than most people!
Morpheus: "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."
Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea
that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. 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?
You guys are ALL great! :-)
By the way (this is for the three contributers), I was thinking that it might be cool if you could have some type of "collaboration", "disscussion", "question", board (whatever you want to call it) where people like me could type in questions we have about the Bible, doctrine, etc., and then you could answer them! Sometimes I have questions about things that I would like to know your opinion on, but they don't have to do with the recent blog up-date, so it would be weird if I asked them in the comment boxes. Anyway, just think about it...if it would be more trouble than it would be good, throw the idea out the window! Thanks...
true that is -- -- that has been the way of man ever since the isrealites -- -- worshiping something other than the ORIGINIAL. desiring the substitute more than the TRUE THING. that is what Neo was trying to tell everyone -- w eare trapped in our own worlds of superimposed reality.
i like that. we make god offering plates, when he is god.
we make him pulpits, when he is power.
we make him pews, when he is eternal flame.
we make him hymnals when he is dark wrath.
we make him sour faces and stiff suits, when he is ancient beauty and untamable passion.
god is nothing we can imagine, nothing we can describe, nothing we can control.
that is just what makes him god.
How true...we as humans want to make God our own invention and attach to Him a system of our own ideas of what appears holy in his eyes. How sad that most of the world is being drowned, seeking for the Truth, the True God in the massive confusing sea of religion. We as humans want to make everything so complex...K.I.S.S.
As a composer once said, "I long for the faith of simpler days."
True that.
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