Did we all take the Blue Pill?
G’day all
Happy Friday and I hope you are all coping in this unsettling times. Looks like things here in AU are starting to settle which is great to see, and maybe, just maybe, the media will be FORCED to start giving us some good news for a change…
Here’s to hoping… Maybe can start to visit our cousins across the ‘ditch’ at least hey ☺
But today, I would like to revisit a theme I started last week, kinda unintentionally…
Now, I probably am also dating myself here and possibly a lot of my readers might not even have a clue what I am on about… but here we go…
Remember the old 90’s movie The Matrix? One of my fav’s I will admit! Movie will be 21 years old this year…happy birthday to you… but I digress…
Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski (aka The Wachowski Brothers) and produced by Joel Silver, the film was released on March 31, 1999, grossing over $460 million worldwide. It won 4 Academy Awards (as well as others) and is a staple on any sci-fi ‘greatest hits list.’
Now, while the special effects were impressive at the time, what really stands out about the film, even after 21 years, is the lingering suspicion that we’re being controlled by a force…whether a ‘Big Brother’ or HAL or robots…
And, perhaps more frightening, that most of us would prefer to live in blissful ignorance rather than face the truth of living in a harsh world where we struggle to survive…
Hopefully you remember the plot: Thomas Anderson, a computer programmer by day and hacker called Neo by night, is recruited to join the “real world” by Morpheus, leader of the human resistance against their AI overlords.
He gives Neo the choice to take a red pill and become part of the resistance or take the blue pill and forget he ever knew there was a real world out there so he can re-join the rest of humanity in serving as an organic power source for the machines.
Neither choice is all that great, especially when the real world involves living on a bedraggled ship, eating gruel, and being chased by “agents” who are out to obliterate the resistance before it can free more minds from the Matrix.
Neo, of course, takes the red pill and (spoiler alert) becomes the hero.
In general, I believe the film was designed to make us think about free will, fate, the depths of oppression, and the power (and pain) of knowledge.
But this got me to thinking…
What is an authentic life?
Now, we might not have some massive AI all holding us hostage and feeding off our brainwaves (right? We don’t right…?), BUT, are we holding ourselves hostage?
Is the ‘Big Brother” really ourselves?
Right now in these unsettling times, there are 1001 conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic – some quite amusing to read. But I guess these sort of crisis’ can get us to thinking “Is there more to this?”
What if it is our own mind, our own limitations that we put on ourselves holding us prisoner? The lies we tell ourselves, the stories or ‘movie’ we show ourselves again, and again, as to what we are actually capable of…
What if the truth was actually something very different…so much more?
Are we settling for a life because it is comfortable, never trying to attempt anything ‘outside the box’ because we tell ourselves it’s not possible? Or more importantly, society & the media telling us we are not worthy…
Constantly (often unconsciously) taking that blue pill and going back to our blissful ‘norm’ coma…
Like Cypher in the movie, some of us may even try a red pill, fight for a number of days/weeks/months, even years to see what’s possible, fail and reach back for that blue pill driven solace – settling back to what’s comfortable, what’s easy…
How many have actually taken the red pill, fought for their independence, their freedom whether it be financial, emotional, spiritual or physical?
Who wants to be the Neo’s of the world and fight to win their right to choose, their right for freedom?
Or more importantly, the Morpheus’ who help others wake up to what’s possible, and provide the red pill and the help & support to win…
Our world needs more Neo’s and Morpheus’ so why no choose team red?
Rise up with me and let’s see what difference we can make.
You got this!
Happy Investing all and have a great weekend!!
