The truth is.... that people love and prefer the matrix.

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The truth is.... that people love and prefer the matrix.

Ya know the more I take observation of society and see firsthand how infatuated and hopelessly addicted everyone is to their entertainments and very own unique and personalized lifestyle the more I begin to realize just how truly enslaved everyone is to this system. Truth is even I am not immune.. The matrix provides people with a lifetime of simple pleasures and self indulgence. It hit me again yesterday when I was at walmart and then went to the mall. I dont play video games anymore, but at walmart I walked by the entertainment section and I see how advanced and addicting they have become and for a few minutes I was even taken in by the technology that was being promoted. To be honest it all looked pretty awesome, but whats worse is that video games are physiologically addicting and deal with dopamine release and certain pleasure centers in your brain which is why so many people live a life dictated by video games. If you really think about it there are so many ways a person can just drown themselves and go through life drowning themselves with either drugs, alcahol, porn, video games, addicting junk foods with excitotoxins, and numerous other forms of entertainments... I used to live a very carnal life and even though in my soul I wasnt happy I was still able to numb my senses and appease my flesh through a cocktail of booze, porn, video games, junk foods, and various other forms of entertainment. That was like 10 years ago when I was broke, but everything with smart phones and etc is far more enticing and addicting now... Its all meant to deal with pleasure centers in your brain and dopamine literally keep your brain in various states of consciousness...

I also went to the mall and these women checking out designer purses caught my attention. They were all decked out in what looked to be expensive attire. Its as if they were taken in by the beauty of such items and even though this isnt a spiritual topic it reminded me of said Bible verse when Eve saw that the forbidden fruit "was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired." It reminds me of the book of revelation when it speaks of mystery babylon and the inherint power of seduction and temptation and desire that will eventually animate such a system that will enslave multitudes. The real question is can there really be any victory against the powers that be(powers of darkness) unless one is able to detach themselves from their matrix? Its as I said in my post that The antichrist matrix is a technological, pharmalogical, psychological, & scientific unseen and unrealized dictatorship. Its designed to provide a constant and full spectrum bombardment of stimulation dealing with the pleasure centers of your brain. Its designed to scientifically capture you on a physiological level and blindfold your soul as best it can. Its becoming a matter of escape and I dont believe the average person can escape or even wants to escape...
 
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This has been as issue since the beginning of formal society. Bread and circuses. Anyone who tries to get out from under it is labeled a nut job... look at how they treat preppers and people who live off grid in the media. The Amish got a lot of things right.
 

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Its certainly bread and circus but biblically speaking we are in a completely new league of spiritual warfare. We basically live in a scientific dictatorship. Even the music is suggestive and addicting, because the tones and beats are designed to invoke specific emotions in us. We basicslly would have to overcome widespread drug addiction or chemical dependencies to be free of the matrix because many of the things and entertsinments and foods intersct much like a drug with our systrms. Its a scientific dictatorship and i believe this techno sorcery is only mild compared to what they will roll out in the beast system.
 

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I don’t know what I think of all that... but I will say this. I can’t listen to the radio anymore. I make my family turn it off if they try to put it on. I don’t watch video - even when you guys post videos and tell me to watch them - because I’m convinced there is some sort of hypnosis going on through the spoken words in these videos (from all sources). I rarely ever watch tv or movies and when I do it’s something stupid like a cooking show or a home renovation. An old Christmas movie. A comedy. They get us from all angles. It’s hard to avoid completely but I agree with your underlying sentiment.

just be aware of it.. the more aware you are the less you’ll fall into the trap. Idk about everyone else... idk what to do about all that.
 

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Nah people are just engineered to be really gullible. I equate it to laziness, not love or dependence.
 

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Nah people are just engineered to be really gullible. I equate it to laziness, not love or dependence.
Principle of least resistance/response cost. People do what gets them the most reinforcement with the least amount of effort. That’s part of it too
 

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Principle of least resistance/response cost. People do what gets them the most reinforcement with the least amount of effort. That’s part of it too
Positive reinforcement isn't even required. In fact, people are fine to just sit around and tread water. Just look at the covid responses.

I heard some managers at a company in Iowa had a betting pool going to see who got covid. For another example, the company I work for pretty much pretends covid doesn't exist.
 
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One powerful antidote to this is the remembrance of death; the acknowledgment that in as little as 60 years from today, we will all cease to exist, and no one will think about us, or the lives that we lived. The fleeting pleasures that we may indulge in will not benefit us when we are in the grave - dead, buried and forgotten.

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We should all think about death - the destroyer of pleasures - every day. It is a powerful motivator.
 

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Positive reinforcement isn't even required. In fact, people are fine to just sit around and tread water. Just look at the covid responses.

I heard some managers at a company in Iowa had a betting pool going to see who got covid. For another example, the company I work for pretty much pretends covid doesn't exist.
Stimulation from media is reinforcement. Stimulation of any sort is reinforcement depending on the particular person.

the company I work for is pretending it doesn’t exist as well. If they could figure out a way to bill while acknowledging it does exist maybe it would be different.
 

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Stimulation from media is reinforcement. Stimulation of any sort is reinforcement depending on the particular person.

the company I work for is pretending it doesn’t exist as well. If they could figure out a way to bill while acknowledging it does exist maybe it would be different.
I mostly agree.

There is a huge chasm between how people talk about covid and what they do about covid. Of course, that's probably a microcosm of how humans communicate as a whole.

Certainly the defund the police movement comes to mind here. Pretty much nobody wants to be pulled over by a cop, and they will freely admit that. But as soon as you talk about criminal justice reforms it's OMG cops are my fucking heroes.
 

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Stimulation from media is reinforcement. Stimulation of any sort is reinforcement depending on the particular person.

the company I work for is pretending it doesn’t exist as well. If they could figure out a way to bill while acknowledging it does exist maybe it would be different.
also makes me think of simulation - when watching a movie or related it is as if it is your life or you are a voyeur of someone elses - allowing us to not think of our own - or our own problems ...
 

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also makes me think of simulation - when watching a movie or related it is as if it is your life or you are a voyeur of someone elses - allowing us to not think of our own - or our own problems ...
Escape. Escape is also a source of reinforcement... the more crappy our lives get the more we look for escape. Media fills that need quite nicely/conveniently. Gardening or exercising would be better
 

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depression and lack of ressources regarding mental health is why people turn to drugs, alcohol, etc and other ways to numb themselves. You're dealing with a population where almost everyone is mentally down so no, they won't be doing anything.
 
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It's deeper than depression. And I've talked about this a lot, but here we go again. People feel powerless, and it's easy to understand why and see that perspective through empathy. I might even go so far as to say most people are neurodivergent. I don't mean that in a technical sense as if everyone has ADD; think of it more as a slang term.

Nobody really wants to live in the fake world, but they don't think they can do anything about it. Or they are simply too scared to go in and fight some fucking agents from the Matrix. Do any of you even remember the Matrix? Everyone who fought an agent died. So that pretty much means people get a pass for not fighting them.
 

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The truth is.... that people love and prefer the matrix.

Ya know the more I take observation of society and see firsthand how infatuated and hopelessly addicted everyone is to their entertainments and very own unique and personalized lifestyle the more I begin to realize just how truly enslaved everyone is to this system. Truth is even I am not immune.. The matrix provides people with a lifetime of simple pleasures and self indulgence. It hit me again yesterday when I was at walmart and then went to the mall. I dont play video games anymore, but at walmart I walked by the entertainment section and I see how advanced and addicting they have become and for a few minutes I was even taken in by the technology that was being promoted. To be honest it all looked pretty awesome, but whats worse is that video games are physiologically addicting and deal with dopamine release and certain pleasure centers in your brain which is why so many people live a life dictated by video games. If you really think about it there are so many ways a person can just drown themselves and go through life drowning themselves with either drugs, alcahol, porn, video games, addicting junk foods with excitotoxins, and numerous other forms of entertainments... I used to live a very carnal life and even though in my soul I wasnt happy I was still able to numb my senses and appease my flesh through a cocktail of booze, porn, video games, junk foods, and various other forms of entertainment. That was like 10 years ago when I was broke, but everything with smart phones and etc is far more enticing and addicting now... Its all meant to deal with pleasure centers in your brain and dopamine literally keep your brain in various states of consciousness...

I also went to the mall and these women checking out designer purses caught my attention. They were all decked out in what looked to be expensive attire. Its as if they were taken in by the beauty of such items and even though this isnt a spiritual topic it reminded me of said Bible verse when Eve saw that the forbidden fruit "was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired." It reminds me of the book of revelation when it speaks of mystery babylon and the inherint power of seduction and temptation and desire that will eventually animate such a system that will enslave multitudes. The real question is can there really be any victory against the powers that be(powers of darkness) unless one is able to detach themselves from their matrix? Its as I said in my post that The antichrist matrix is a technological, pharmalogical, psychological, & scientific unseen and unrealized dictatorship. Its designed to provide a constant and full spectrum bombardment of stimulation dealing with the pleasure centers of your brain. Its designed to scientifically capture you on a physiological level and blindfold your soul as best it can. Its becoming a matter of escape and I dont believe the average person can escape or even wants to escape...
Now is probably a good time to ask the real reason that GW Bush, after 9/11, said “I encourage you all to go to the shopping mall”. It’s not like covid was around in 2001 to devastate the economy.

It is also said that “consumerism is a way of giving people the illusion of control while allowing a responsible elite to keep managing society”.

Despite the bleakness of the future, I think that there will be spots/enclaves around the globe that reclaim the world we are seemingly leaving behind. There’ll probably be hotels or entire towns without surveillance (for anonymity’s sake) or where you pay with “pretend cash” rather than crypto, cafes with bookshelves and human waiters rather than robot waiters…all just to give people/tourists a feeling of the “past”.
 

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Ohh ...the LOVELY Matrix ... Full of entertainment....several Sides to chose .. a government that you can trust.. honorables international institutions....o_O I miss that confort zone.
 

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Now is probably a good time to ask the real reason that GW Bush, after 9/11, said “I encourage you all to go to the shopping mall”. It’s not like covid was around in 2001 to devastate the economy.

It is also said that “consumerism is a way of giving people the illusion of control while allowing a responsible elite to keep managing society”.

Despite the bleakness of the future, I think that there will be spots/enclaves around the globe that reclaim the world we are seemingly leaving behind. There’ll probably be hotels or entire towns without surveillance (for anonymity’s sake) or where you pay with “pretend cash” rather than crypto, cafes with bookshelves and human waiters rather than robot waiters…all just to give people/tourists a feeling of the “past”.
Consumerism, western living.
A lot of us are pampered, spoiled citizens who are unaware of the rest of the planets population at our expense.

The slave labor, wars, resources etc. It’s all blood diamond like with almost every major corporation having a hand. The western ideology and it’s citizens are oblivious to it.

It’s interesting times, trying times.
 
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