The Matrix

Merriam-Webster
 matrix: something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form.
 

       The movie, The Matrix, generated a shockwave of stimulation to the imaginations of millions around the globe. The Matrix was released in 1999 and has been related to everything from a government conspiracy to a movie about the Christ paradigm. Even, this work, has been compared to the concepts found in the Matrix movie.
       In brief, the movie is about Thomas Anderson, a man who discovers that the image of life and the world around him is a virtual reality controlled by a computer that has taken over the Earth of the future. Anderson teams up with Morpheus, the leader of a group of clandestine freedom fighters, to reclaim their individuality and 'wake up' the world to the realities of this predicament.
       This work is directed toward exposing an evil force that has taken over the present world and distorted all reality of life as we know it. No better proof that this concept has scriptural basis than the strange paradigm described by Paul in his second letter to the church at Corinth: "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." (II Corinthians 4:18). The word "temporal" comes from the Greek, proskairos, pronounced pros'-kahee-ros, meaning: for the occasion only, i.e. temporary. The word "eternal" comes from the Greek, aionios, pronounced ahee-o'-nee-os, meaning: perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well):
       If such a deception was being perpetrated on mankind, then we would see a corresponding contradiction to reality in our world. Paul said the things we see in our world are temporary and the things that are not seen are constant. Few will disagree that the only thing constant in this world is change. Throughout our history we learn again and again that wealth and power rise and fall like the tides yet our major pursuits center around wealth and power. Do we live in world created with false images intended to confuse and pacify us, and blind us to a terrible reality that defines the true conditions of the world? Just a cursory consideration of a few random realities will show that we live in a world filled gross contradictions, horrific danger, unfettered deception, apathy, and unparalleled inequity.

♦  Wealth and power, though rejected by all major religions as the source of evil, is promoted as the highest pursuit of humanity.
♦  Big business, which has a record of fleecing the people, destroying the environment, and degrading the moral fabric of every area of society it touches throughout history, is championed as the future hope of humanity.
♦  Fundamentalist religion is a major force behind the anti-environmental movement, and the unfettered exploitation of our natural resources despite the biblical edict "Defile not therefore the land which ye     shall inhabit" (Numbers 35:34)
♦  Socialism, the sharing of all things by all the people and the practice of the first church Jesus inspired, is considered the worst form of all social institutions.
♦  The only way to save the people, under a despotic rule, is by destroying their society and their culture.
♦  We must bring freedom to the world by force.
♦  The world conducts itself as though it believes war is the only thing that will bring peace.
♦  The only way to defend freedom is by eliminating the people's rights and submitting the population to complete government control.
♦  In the United States, the Congress, which was granted the exclusive constitutional power to make war by the founding fathers, in order to prevent a single individual from having that power, gave it to a single individual, the President.
♦  Afghanistan is declared a shining example of democracy, despite the fact that, all but tiny pockets of the country, is controlled by warlords and the economy is completely dependent on the production of opium for its survival.
♦  Nuclear energy, the most expensive and dangerous method of producing energy, is promoted as the prime replacement for oil and carbon based sources, the second most expensive and dangerous form of energy, while efficient, sustainable, safe, and cheaper forms of energy production are all but ignored.
♦  The most unhealthful environments on the planet are hospitals, where we send our sick to be healed.
♦  Our police forces, which claim the image of protection and service, are the most feared and avoided persons in our world.
♦  Our great world monetary systems set up to save countries from financial ruin practice methods, which consistently result in national bankruptcy, drain the nations of their wealth, through draconian privatization policies and exorbitant interest rates, and dramatically increase poverty and social degradation wherever they are applied.
♦  We rush to aid disaster scenes, where thousands of people are affected, while paying only token attention to the multiple millions who die of starvation every year; straining at a gnats and swallowing camels.
♦  Being an individual is defined as wearing, worshipping, driving, eating, drinking, believing and rejecting the same things everybody else does.
♦  The very first act of independence of the patriots in the United States was a rebellion against the largest global corporation of the era, the East India Company, yet protests against global corporations are now considered as unpatriotic.
♦  Capital punishment is teaching people not to kill people by killing people.
♦  The concept that the incredibly intricate design of our world and the universe it occupies could be the result of intelligent design is rejected as unscientific.
♦  The concept of mutually assured destruction, the justification for the proliferation of thousands of nuclear weapons, is no more logical than each contestant in a duel bringing thousands of rounds of ammunition to the match.
♦  Food and water are absolutely vital and basic human necessities, yet they are almost completely in the hands of profit-oriented private corporations.
♦  Our public servants are called our leaders and ignore the public while doing everything but serve us.
♦  Computers, which were supposed have reduced paper use have tripled that use.
♦  Many prescription drugs and treatments are derived from plants and other natural sources, yet treating illness with plants and other natural sources is considered quackery.
♦  The vast majority of scientists and scientific research is focused on chemicals and weapons, both deadly to the inhabitants of the planet.
♦  We spend billions studying the universe around our planet to determine where life came from, while only glancing at the extreme threats to life on this planet.
♦  SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is trying to detect primitive radio waves from intelligent life in space, while ignoring thousands of historical and modern reports from kings, presidents, government officials, astronauts, scientists, military leaders, policemen, firemen, judges, doctors, television and radio broadcasters, celebrities, and government investigations that prove there is intelligent life visiting this planet regularly.
♦  Archeologists and anthropologists teach us that the thousands of incredibly precise and massive monolithic structures found in almost every part of the globe and could not be duplicated with even our modern technological knowledge were constructed by primitive societies, with no tools, mathematics, or skills.
♦  Mainstream Christianity, though claiming divine biblical authority to rule people’s lives, teaches concepts and conducts itself with practices that have absolutely no foundation in scripture.
♦  Our schools have to conduct bake sales to get the things needed to educate our children while our military often get things they never ask for or need.
♦  Our news is violent, our movies, books, and video games are violent, our sports are violent, and our society is filled with violence, yet we claim to be a civilized race.
♦  Health and safety in the workplace is considered a hindrance to profit.
♦  The most popular and expensive fashions are produced by most abused and exploited workers in the world.
♦  Sex is big business, not a human treasure.
♦  Ninety-eight percent of all prisoners are incarcerated for non-violent crimes.
♦  Education is a void where funding, based on conformity to rules dictated by government controls the environment, metal detectors control access, regurgitation of information dictated by pro-capitalist concepts, convoluted history, and scientific theory control success, and conformity determines level of achievement.
♦  Reality TV, the most popular addiction, and bizarre form entertainment in “developed” society, is anything but real and is presented without any regard to the negative lessons it teaches.
♦  Emergency management in this world is so ineffective that it often creates disasters worse than original event it is intended to mitigate.
♦  Our teachers often make less than our garbage collectors.
♦  Our poles are melting, our seas are dieing, our whales are going deaf, our air is becoming almost opaque, our lakes and rivers are too poisoned to use, our weather is going crazy and the world is increasing environmental destruction and pollution as fast as technology will permit.
♦  Child pornography and portrayal of abusive and abhorrent sexual acts are considered free speech.
♦  Slavery is still big business in our world.
♦  Racism and xenophobia is alive and well in every aspect of life.
♦  The rich get richer, while the poor get poorer, and the gulf between them widens.
♦  Our disabled are still further hindered by lack of consideration, obstacles and apathy in the work place, and have to pry open every door they can find leading to a safer, more accessible world.
♦  Our modern weather forecasters are so inaccurate that they would be better off prognosticating on the basis of a coin flip.
♦  Government and corporate corruption are low on the priority list of law enforcement, often, only results in minimal fines or wrist slapping, and, all too often criminals, are found in our public institutions.
♦  Safe and highly effective biological remediation is almost never considered to solve our dangerous pollution problems.
♦  Earthquake prediction in the United States and much of the developed world is almost non-existent, even though many highly accurate methods have been developed, are used in many parts of the world, and have saved millions of lives.
♦  Our social safety net is tattered, and our educational system in decline due to lack of funding caused by tax cuts for the rich and military excess.
♦  In the developed world we spend more money on our pets than we do our homeless, and often more on just our homeless pets.
♦  Our churches spend less than a nickel of every dollar they receive on serving the needy.
♦  Obesity is common and accepted in the developed world while most children in many parts of the world never know a day without hunger.
♦  Torture, depravation, starvation, immoral acts, human rights abuse, murder, and the use of weapons of mass destruction have suddenly become a hidden necessity to prevent others from committing torture, sensory depravation, starvation, immoral acts, human rights abuse, murder, and the use of weapons of mass destruction.

       Are we living in a world filled contradiction, danger, deception, apathy, and inequity? Is the world we see portrayed by the media, academia, religion, science and government spin masters the real one or just false images hiding a terrible truth? And, is all this incredibly consistent deception, somehow, just chance and random or is it generated from one source? Are we being deceived, like the characters in the Matrix by a rogue computer, with the only difference being that our deceiver is an evil force with destruction of the human race as its prime agenda? We believe it is and human greed is the fuel that feeds the deception. See our section Humanity Incorporated for further insight into this paradigm.