Enough Of The Foolishness Already

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
-Milan Kundra

One of the most unforgettable scenes in The Matrix (for me) was the part where the protagonist (Neo) is presented with a choice between taking a red pill or a blue pill. The former being a symbol of the painful truth of reality & the latter being a symbol of remaining in the blissful ignorance of illusion. 

Most middle-class people that I know choose to take the blue pill as it affords them a guiltless,comfortable & pleasurable existence--let those who are poor and/or unfortunate handle their own business. This class-consciousness leaks into other realms beyond the personal, namely, the political, cultural, legal & educational. Seems as if a lot of folks have OD'ed on the blue pills & rendered their critical faculties to a barely functional state. Nothing matters beyond the circumference of family. friends, having a good job & maximizing their leisure activities. Although I can understand their proclivities, I have to admit that this way of being is pure bullshit. I guess this is why I feel a touch of delight when I hear of some rich & powerful figure taking a fall like Bernie Madoff or Tom Delay, or when someone I am familiar with on a personal level, accustomed to living lavishly/uncaringly, losing it all.

Taking the red pill may have its down-side (like seeing the grittiness & sorrows of reality), but it is certainly far superior than swallowing the swill that is being forced down our throat which we are led to believe is a culinary feast. Thankfully, folks are starting to recover from their blue-pill stupor &beginning to resist this artificial reality.

Check out the following video  ,Lifting the Veil, which details some of the illusions of our times:


(..to be is more essential than to have, is it not?)

OneLove

:::MME:::