The Military-Industrial-Infotainment Complex has you, Neo.
Guns, Pepper Spray, and the Madness of This Shopping "Holiday"
--A woman pepper spraying fellow shoppers at a California Wal-Mart
--Security guards pepper spraying shoppers at a North Carolina Wal-Mart
--Someone firing a gun at a North Carolina shopping mall
--Someone shooting another person in the parking lot of another California Wal-Mart
--An armed robbery attempt in South Carolina
--A fight at the jewelery counter of a Florida Wal-Mart
--Another fight, this time in the electronics department of a New York Wal-Mart
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Can this be real? Can human beings truly be so hopelessly enslaved to the Military-Industrial-Infotainment Complex's programming that they will:
* Assault one another?
* Pepper-spray one another?
* Even shoot one another (or at least try to shoot one another)?
And all in their pursuit of consumption?
Yes.
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.
How can sane people believe the ridiculous? Accept the absurd? Allow their own behaviors to be reprogrammed to serve this Matrix?
The television programming that we view reinforces, via "news" reports on Black Friday, commercials, and corporations pushing Black Friday into Thursday evening, a false sense of urgency to buy on Black Friday.
It's everywhere we look.
The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.
But what do we expect in a world where allegations of raping children are covered up because the alleged assailant was part of a winning college football coaching staff?
What do we expect when some people have become convinced that political opinion on AM Hate Radio outweighs the scientific opinions of actual scientists?
Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious.
Welcome to the desert of the real.