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Matrix Training
Because of the divide in the 2 party system, conservative propaganda uses the tactic of manipulating words and definitions in order to negate the experience of real people in the minds of other conservatives. I find this offensive, but more than that, it is a tactic that is effective at closing their ears and making them resistant to a reality they are not personally experiencing. This is “Hear No Evil”.
When your only experience of reality is your own perception, it’s fundamentally incomplete. We need to see through the eyes of many, not one, but most of us fall back on our own perception. We look outside of ourselves to get a complete picture. Conservative propaganda even comments on video to make a magic trick out of what “the Left” is trying to show them. This perception that the Left is trying to show them something rather than simply calling attention to a thing, the motives of this are questioned to the extent that people doubt what it is they are seeing. This is “See No Evil”.
But when you are talking about the behavior of a cult, or the behavior of any group that seeks to indoctrinate minds to a certain position or agenda to extract something from them, they will use their collective voice as a means of reinforcing that individual perception. The individual narrative is voiced loudly while using dog whistles to voice a larger opinion through subtle means, like dog whistles, designed to only be heard by those who agree. Because those who disagree haven’t said it they can effectively disregard any accusation that this is what their side is saying. This is “Speak No Evil”.
In application, this means that what you say and show them isn’t always what they hear and see because the perception of their “group” reinforces how they think as individuals. While we can dismiss this as “group think” it tends to hide itself in ways that are far more insidious and covert. It also means that many of these people are victims rather than perpetrators. And I’m risking my own “black card” to say this because we are used to seeing everyone as agents in the Matrix. We’re used to either flight or fight because our survival instincts are triggered. Thus the most real and truest conversation has to come from those with no reason to run but also no reason to fight. This is where it gets difficult.
Morpheus was right when he explained the system.
Who is this for?
This Matrix Training is primarily targeted towards those who would like to be friends and allies in this fight simply because of the key factors and variables that allow them to be “The One”. Before we move forward, I need to explain this so that we all understand why I’m focusing on allies even though this training may be very useful to black people if not already known.
Black People: I’m not excluding you from being “The One”. I’m agreeing with many of you who recognize that racism is not our job to fix. It is a thing that we must overcome, survive, and try to thrive in spite of. It is an oppressive system that triggers memories of our ancestors burning in us and stirring up passion and resolve. And we must, at all costs, continue to rebel. But it was never our duty to fix it, only to fight it.
White People: For those who represent Neo, they have a choice. The choice is to reboot the system, choosing another one, playing out the same game, repeating the same mistakes, but possibly choosing another target group to oppress. Or the choice is to destroy the system, but what does that do to everyone dependent upon it?
(The third choice is to let the system continue but use your power within the system in order to free minds and effect change within for the limited number of people you can touch with your individual power.)
As we open our third eye to this scene and light/truth starts pouring into it, I want you to notice everything. Neo, is standing tall, dressed in black, seeing through shades that are black. He’s standing on the Left. Contrary to this, the Architect of the System could have been represented in any way but the symbolism is clear. He’s an older white man, with a hairstyle and beard combination reminiscent of Colonel Sanders so he’s older but from the perspective of an era. And he’s sitting down not standing because he’s not taking a stand. This is not a system that benefits the people stuck in it. It is a system of his own design. He isn’t simply “The Man”. He is this concept collectively represented as “The Other One”. He is dressed oppositely as well. Of course from his perspective Neo is “the other One” but Neo, in a way, is also his offspring. That’s why he has a choice. It is because he inherited the system. That’s why he has powers in the system that others do not and cannot have. The Matrix is a world built on rules but Neo can change them. The Architect knows this. He knows this because he built it for Neo. He built it for every version of Neo in order to pass down the very power that Neo inherently has and can use for “whomsoever he loves”. And thus the 2 choices are revealed. Does he choose to sacrifice others or does he choose to sacrifice himself for the sake of others.
Understand, this is not a sacrifice of his life in terms of life or death, but it does have to do with his survival. Zion lives in reality. And Neo has been welcomed to live in Zion but their survival against the machines rests on a hidden agreement. Reality vs The Matrix. The Machines put humans to sleep so that while they dream the machines can use them for their power. This is power they are collectively generating that they are unaware of. They’re also unaware that their power is being taken and exploited. They’re not using their power because they have no need of it in their state of slumber. So instead of their power building and fixing things in the real world it only builds and fixes the mental construct that is the Matrix. The System of White Supremacy is a mental construct. It continues to work and function because we are feeding it our energy.
Neo is the legacy of the Architect. In a way, Neo is a version of the Architect. However, he is a much later version that, each time, comes back to the same choice he made to create the Matrix, to decide if it still serves a purpose. We see all of these different versions of Neo on the scenes all around them because not only does Neo represent thousands of people, but thousands of different points in time, each one, each point, having the same opportunity to stand up to The System and try to stop it.
Each time; however, Neo is faced with the survival of “his people” which are those who are still asleep and connected to the Matrix and the fate of Zion. The Machines cannot threaten Zion without Power. That Power is facilitated and extracted from the unaware bodies of those The System benefits. It’s literally feeding them the remains of the other humans that it devoured; of course by devour I simply mean “consume”. At this point Neo knows the truth. He knows that The Matrix uses people, is powered by people, generations of the people it grows on “plantations” to others. And he knows that the entire System is predicated upon this “Slavery”. And yet, it is hard to simply turn it off because of how dependent everyone connected to The System is. What will happen to them if all of the machines, “Life Support”, were turned off? So what if they are threatening Zion and people who live in the real world, in tribes, in villages, in far off reaches of the globe still untouched by greed and corporate capitalism? So what if they would pay people to have children mining rare earth minerals with shovels? Zion represents a small minority. The majority are those who are unconsciously represented by The System. And so the question is which side is he willing to save?
The Architect coldly tells Neo that it didn’t even have to be this way. The system could be a paradise. We could create a utopian society but at the end of the day the question is still at what cost? Liberals want more money to be spent on social programs but also take money from corporations to fight for their interests when it comes to creating policy. Conservatives decry the spending while preaching freedom but still want the ability to tell people how to live and who to love. The warfare between the two parties pulls us into a vortex of every emotion. What one side wants the other side hates. And we spend so much time fighting and being opposed to the other’s sides desires that we lose sight of The System. We have no idea what’s going on outside our bubbles of consciousness. The left bubble is conscious of some issues. The right bubble is conscious of other issues. But neither side is totally aware of the third side that both have sold out to. That third side is the corporations.
The Corporations are represented by the Machines because all they care about is profit; which is simply a measure of the energy they are able to harvest from consumers. You may see their products but you don’t really see them. They hide amongst people while spreading their influence. But outside of the plantations they are hunting down the free peoples of Earth and trying to “spread democracy”.
What’s wrong with that? While we debate about who is or isn’t a nazi, a socialist, a marxist, a communist, a pedophile, etc., we’re still talking about a system that is seeking to control native populations and absorb smaller groups of people into that System so that it, and them through it, can control them. And what was once done under the banner of skin color, now is often done under the color of one’s money. And now money speaks the economic language of superiority.
One version of Neo recalls when the Irish weren’t considered white. One version of Neo recalls when the Italians weren’t considered white. As other European groups are socially conquered and assimilated, the grievances from years of “white on white crime” in Europe are laid to rest. As a result, The Matrix reboots under the new understanding of a “whiteness” that now includes this group that was previously rejected and discriminated against.
What happens now? And so now, once that group becomes white they start to fall asleep because they’re no longer under attack for being Italians or for being Irish. Even the Asians are much more accepted now than they were. These groups were all negatively compared to “The Negro” because he, in his blackness, was how they measured the crime of not being “white”; not being “one of us” (them). And whether there was a policy or not, it didn’t matter. Other groups struggled for economic equality and they were blocked because they weren’t considered “white” or “white enough”. But over time, their acceptance is what also allowed them to fall asleep and become ignorant to how they were treated in favor of joining in with their new “white” friends and allies against “the blacks”.
Similar to “whiteness”, “blackness” was also a team that could be added or subtracted from. It could be multiplied and divided and extended, whole or in part, to other groups. However, it didn’t benefit “whiteness” to increase the number of groups that could be considered black and thus, by nature, allied against them. So if you had one drop of blackness, you were black. And the fear of actually being black should, in the minds of Racists, be a thing that would keep black numbers low because why would one want to mingle their blood or forsake their future children by giving birth to children who would automatically be disdained and discriminated against by The System? However, at times, the effects of people falling asleep to the realities of racism also made them forget that it was real enough to reinforce the fear that kept them far away from black people. And now, many people are so sleep that in their dreams racism is a thing of the past and yet the Irish and Italians are still qualified to be white because “whiteness” is still the racial establishment of White Power. So the alliance of whiteness hasn’t gone away. They just want to pretend and campaign against the notion that color is at all involved. But as long as there is such a thing as “White”, as a social construct, there will always need to be a need for “Black” to oppose it-whether the allies are qualified to call themselves black, People of Color, or simply allies.