6 December 2021

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Does the Matrix have you? (E15)

Luke Fenwick and Sean Oldham bring you episode 15 of podcast series Conversation for a better tomorrow.

Matrix 4 is out this Christmas 2021!

However back in 1999, the original Matrix a science fiction action film, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss burst onto our screens with cult status. It depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, the Matrix, which intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source. When computer programmer Thomas Anderson, under the hacker alias "Neo", uncovers the truth, he "is drawn into a rebellion against the machines" along with other people who have been freed from the Matrix.

A movie that shaped reality or eerie coincidence on many levels.
So many hidden meanings, secret codes to decipher.
The show isn’t about conspiracy theories of a global group controlling our every move. Red or blue pills.

Reading online the theories about the movie include religion and spirituality, sexuality, numerology, Alan Watts was talking about it back in the 70s and the works of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, it is exhausting and my mind hurts.

And then really, it is all about the situation that many humans face now and that is too much time in a digital world, not engaging with this gift which is life.

How much is art imitating life here?

• 0:00 | Introduction to the Matrix

• 5:12 | Luke explains our direction for this Show

• 6:49 | With the Metaverse news, are we going deeper into the Matrix?

• 9:28 | Does the Matrix speak to the ease with which humans can be manipulated?

• 15:49 | Humans are designed to be distracted

• 19:25 | Neo Using his eyes for the first time

• 24:10 | Neo: What is the Matrix?

• 27:12 | Morpheus: I can only show you the door, you have to walk through it!

• 31:34 | Luke breaks down Morpheus’s rant on being a slave to one’s mind

• 36:57 | Did we evolve to spend this much time on/in computers?

• 38:37 | Sean breaking down the desire to upload skill and skip the hard learning the same way Neo learned Kung-Fu

• 42:52 | Is Neo’s journey the hero’s journey we all have to go through?

• 48:15 | Let’s continue making hard work and discipline cool and squash the ease myth

• 51:50 | Choose your hard!

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