>>68196
wholesome

i wanna bring up the matrix. it's silly mentioning the movie given how it's another facet of the pop culture ouroboros nowadays, but it's significant here, not only because i just so happened to watch it for the first time recently, but because so many other people at the time of its release was blown away by it. i don't really know what the audience back then loved about the matrix. maybe it was the cool action scenes or the classic underdog hero's journey, but for me the enjoyment came from its themes and the message it was trying to convey: we live in an inhuman, algorithmically driven society that gets its success from having its citizens accept and maintain its harmful existence, and the way it does that is through a complex system of distractions and vices that keep them placated.

it feels redundant spelling it out like that because currently, the movie is universally known as a story about anti-authoritarianism. it wants you to give the finger to the system, to have you *think* and break from the mold. the sheer amount of people that have watched this movie and understood its message is staggering, yet those same people continue to grease the gears that keeps the machine going. right now, i feel like neo waking up from the goo pod for the first time, but instead of me being alone in emerging, there's thousands of others around me wailing and screaming about the oppressive machine overlords and how they are making our lives terrible, but then instead of jumping off from the pod and fighting back, they tire themselves out and then push the tubes back down their throats so they can return to the matrix. why? why when armed with knowledge of the truth, they retreat back into the shadows?

the answer is obvious: capital offers the common man security. no matter how bad things get, people do not want to experience the hardship that comes with rebelling against the fundamental building blocks of our base, or "economy". however that system isn't failproof, as we've seen time and time again with riots over police violence; which is why it also offers a series of novel and trivial distractions, à la an endless dopamine dripper. people experience the dissonance of participating in the system and it makes them miserable, but when they retreat into their hive of entertainment, they forget all about it and are able to coexist with that contradiction. it's a dangerous form of doublethink and it's the best tool in CAPITALISMCAPITALISMCAPITALISM's arsenal. with the advent of the internet, the tool had found its greatest partner and it grown exponentially stronger as a result. we as humans have found ourselves cornered into a global prison that dulls our senses and keeps us uneducated. we are no longer humans, but batteries that generate profit for our machine god, our *moloch*, which in turn perpetuates its own existence.

regarding the people who are aware of the matrix but choose to go back into it, can you blame them? their bodies have never seen sunlight and they have never used their muscles, making them wholly unprepared to go against the machine overlords. it is essentially asking them to step outside of their comfortable home and die. and it perfectly describes humanity as of late. people in our atomized society have barely felt the light of human connection on their skin and they have not exercised the brainpower necessary to deconstruct and remake a whole new world. sure, we have *blueprints* on how to improve our world, but without an engineering degree, it looks like a jumbled mess. to connect this back into my agonized feelings, i want to go back to the question of "can you blame them?"; this isn't a rhetorical question, it's something i'm genuinely asking. recently, it feels like the wool has been peeled from my eyes and i now see the truth of the world for what it is. i have exited plato's cavern, my ticket expired for the breads and circuses, and my smoke and mirrors have all but shattered and dissipated. this world is a dystopia, and it goes beyond trump. the mass consumption of meat and its long-term consequences on agriculture, countless starving men and women being worked as slaves in both the first and third world, climate change and every preventable thing that causes it, the plastic trash islands in the oceans and its insidious cousin: microplastics, and every other countless issue regarding the world and the human spirit. there is only one thing responsible for this and everyone knows it, but they don't give a shit. nobody does. despite the excuses i listed that explains man's reluctance to change, it's not their only choice. in both the matrix and the real world, we are given the resources to strengthen not only our intellect, but *will*, in order to bring positive change and peace. and its not just them, it's us too. our friends, our family, the person writing this and the person reading this. we all took the blue pill when morpheus asked. this is what it means to pierce the cosmic veil and obtain gnosis. i can physically feel the darkness that permeates this world and it's sickening. except there is no glorious realm of pleroma to go to in the afterlife, just nonexistence. darkness and nothingness. what is the point of continuing? for continuation's sake? have i become like capital? has my body been vacant of a soul and is instead piloted by a series of self propagating memes? i don't know anymore. i just want the noise to cease.

>>114277
#hug I’m actually watching it in 2 weeks. they care somewhat, and the world is not totally without care, but in our current forms where ideas and knowledge are felt individually, and reproduction occurs based on individuals, the world selects for fitness and the human mind can often bow to this, or be select

selected against. that you were able to make this conclusion shows you’re not so far off, nor are any of us, but for us to not throw it off as individuals, but live and replace the matrix, we must gradually change the nature of humanity such that it precludes rival humans destroying each other the harder they take the blue pill

we all want to be the sort of person who doesn’t need to maintain our pleasure above hurting others, but we are not yet so.

anyway that’s my answer. if you want to talk more to me or work towards modifying these trait

s, you can email me at

you can email me at [email protected]
but I’m sure others have good answers too, perhaps better than I do. also, I’ve been getting out of an ashamed, disassociating mindset lately, and I think that kind of thing when I feel ungrounded and powerless, adrift causes a lot of the pain. the work you in your heart want to do is worth doing, whatever it is. if you don’t know how to do it, I bet if you take some time you’ll think of a way to take the redpill you can live out

when does he have to wear the bolo tie???

When will Unwinder go back to making pedestrian proto-Webtoons™ (vertical webcomics with a resolution of 1280 x 16000 and without the official Webtoons™/Tapas corporate platform for adtech stipends now that Project Wonderful has been dead and buried for years)? Even the Deagle Nation people had to quit doing the 'ironically bad' shtick.