Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?
Has anyone noticed that behind the “door” is what comes out in the matrix.. does that mean that we have to open our minds to the possibilities of us living in the matrix..?
The film The Matrix is actually based on an enlightenment narrative, meaning: the code of “the matrix” itself within the film represents The Wheel Of Dharma within Buddhism, Original Sin within Christianity, Sharia within Islam, Metaphysics within Western Philosophy. It is, as Morpheus calls it, the real world.
So, even though in the film the real world is a world in which humans are slaves to machines, every major religion presents a similar problem to its adherents, an obstacle that keeps them from achieving a higher consciousness. And, like Neo, there is also a Messiah within every major religion that points the way to a method of attaining this higher consciousness, a method that adherents take up as their spiritual practice.
Source: dharmasimulation
Hegemony - an indirect form of imperial dominance in which the hegemon (leader state) rules geopolitically sub-ordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of the threat, rather than by direct military force… Culturally, hegemony also is established by means of language, specifically the imposed lingua franca of the hegemon (leader state), which then is the official source of information for the people of the society of the sub-ordinate state. Therefore, in the selection of the particular information to be communicated to the sub-ordinate populace, the language of the hegemon thus limits what is communicated; hence, the source practises hegemonic influence upon the person or people receiving the given information. In contemporary society, the exemplar hegemonic organisations are churches and the mass communications media that continually transmit data and information to the public. As such, the ideologic content of the data and information are determined by the vocabulary with which the messages are presented — how the messages are presented; thereby determines the value of the information as “realiable” or “unreliable”, as “true” or “false”, for the recipient reader, listener, and viewer. Hence is language essential to the imposition, establishment, and functioning of the cultural hegemony that influences what and how people think about the status quo of their society.
