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Rhett, Link. You need to read this and read about "The holographic universe" and do a show or talk about it. READ THIS :(

:: THIS IS WORTH READING, IT WILL HOPEFULLY OPEN YOUR MIND ::

The Matrix Trilogy is based on a Plato theory. Plato was an Ancient Greece Philosopher. And the Theory the Matrix was based on is called "Allegory of the Cave" The theory is totally worth reading. And in my opinion it captures the false reality we are ALL being forced to live TO THIS DAY. Living life each day with the idea we all have to WORK in order to SURVIVE. We buy into consumerism and the idea that we are FREE when in reality we are all slaves to a monetary system. We are slaves to money and materialistic things. While the people "behind the curtain" live a life of luxury and ease while feeding off of OUR hard work. We call this "reality" but the REAL truth is. We DO NOT have to live like this. We have the power to change the way things are. We have the power to stop inflation and the ridiculous prices we are forced to pay for food, gas. And most important. Transportation. It makes me sick that most people cant even go visit a place they have always wanted to visit. Like Rome. Or Egypt. Because of the cost. While these Rich Elitists have the ability to travel all over the world. Without worrying about cost. Or missing work. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS. But the majority of us have been brainwashed into believing THIS IS JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE. That is not the case. We are just letting it happen.

Below I will post the theory "Allegory of the Cave". The Matrix is NOT just a movie. It has a lot more truth in it then we realize. NOT the killer robots and Computer world part of the movie. But just the story behind all of that. That a group of Elites are keeping us from experiencing absolute TRUE FREEDOM and the real life we could ALL be living. By trapping us in the reality of "WORKING TO LIVE, LIVING TO WORK" here is the theory Plato talked about thousands of years ago :: OPEN YOUR MIND, READ THE THEORY I POST BELOW. AND WAKE UP :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Socrates begins by asking Glaucon to imagine a cave where people have been imprisoned from childhood. These prisoners are chained so that their legs and necks are fixed, forcing them to gaze at the wall in front of them and not look around at the cave, each other, or themselves. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway with a low wall, behind which people walk carrying objects or puppets "of men and other living things" The people walk behind the wall so their bodies do not cast shadows for the prisoners to see, but the objects they carry do ("as puppet showmen have screens in front of their people over which they work their puppets" The prisoners cannot see any of this behind them and are only able to see the shadows cast upon the cave wall in front of them. The sounds of the people walking echo off the shadowed wall, and the prisoners falsely believe these sounds come from the shadows. Socrates suggests that the shadows constitute reality for the prisoners because they have never seen anything else; they would not realize that what they see are shadows of objects in front of a fire, much less that these objects are inspired by real living things outside of the cave.

Socrates then supposes that one prisoner is freed, being forced to turn and see the fire. The light would hurt his eyes and make it hard for him to see the objects that are casting the shadows. If he is told that what he saw before was not real but that the objects he is now struggling to see are, he would not believe it. In his pain, Socrates continues, the freed prisoner would turn away and run back to what he can see and is accustomed to, that is the shadows of the carried objects. He writes "...it would hurt his eyes, and he would escape by turning away to the things which he was able to look at, and these he would believe to be clearer than what was being shown to him.

Socrates continues: "suppose...that someone should drag him...by force, up the rough ascent, the steep way up, and never stop until he could drag him out into the light of the sun." The prisoner would be angry and in pain, and this would only worsen when the radiant light of the sun overwhelms his eyes and blinds him. The sunlight is representative of the new reality and knowledge the freed prisoner is experiencing.

Slowly, his eyes adjust to the light of the sun. First he can only see shadows. Gradually he can see the reflections of people and things in water and then later see the people and things themselves. Eventually he is able to look at the stars and moon at night until finally he can look upon the sun itself. Only after he can look right at the sun "might he reason about it" and what it is.

Socrates continues, saying that the freed prisoner would think that the real world was superior to the world he experienced in the cave; "he would bless himself for the change, and pity [the other prisoners]" and would want to bring his fellow cave dwellers out of the cave and into the sunlight.

The returning prisoner, whose eyes have become acclimated to the light of the sun, would be blind when he re-enters the cave, just as he was when he was first exposed to the sun. The prisoners, according to Socrates, would infer from the returning one's blindness that the journey out of the cave had harmed him and that they should not undertake a similar journey. Socrates concludes that the prisoners, if they were able, would therefor reach out and kill any who attempted to drag them out of the cave.
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Thank you for reading, And remember. "Knowledge is Power"
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There are about a zillion other places on the internet devoted to this topic.  The fun ones implicate blood-sucking lizard people.

It's true that knowledge is power but analogies should not be confused with knowledge.

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