What Fires You Up?

9/18/2003

 

Mother Bear is Mad. Why You Should Be Mad Too.

Too much to repeat the telling again right now, so just look to this link to read on.

Peace, love and hugs, cobalt

BJ 9/18/2003 03:38:00 PM

9/14/2003

 

The Matrix of Ignorance

What do Resourcefull (the blog), the National Geographic, the NYTimes, IndyMedia SF and the Matrix have in common?

Why the answer may be blowing in the wind, as so many clues and direct connections to the making of our New World Order as prescribed by the Bush Administration. Hey, in Texas, home to our feckless leader George W. Bush, the state legislature voted to substract $182 million from the funding of new textbooks for the public schools, leaving many textbooks 14 years old for the resource of teaching our youth! Not a problem, for apparently ignorance is the preferred status of American citizenry.

Here are the titles of todays' top stories in the NYTimes and in IndyMedia:
America Needs Indymedia because of "The Matrix of Ignorance" : SF Indymedia
and here is the second, in the New York Times:
Bush Seeks to Expand Access to Private Data

Gary Leupp of IndyMedia and Eric Lichblau of the NYTimes are much thanked by this author for their skillful reporting of urgent realities in the USA today. Read them both and check out the Resourcefull blog for complete coverage. How interesting it continues to be that to find some semblance of "truth" one must search through many sources of information. That is, unless you have already given up when caught in the "Matrix":

From Gary's article, a quote:

"Innocent of such details, which the mass media inadequately supplies and which thus must be obtained by efforts at self-edification, ordinary folks wind up influenced by the insidious influence of anti-Arab racism (received subconsciously and by osmosis from Hollywood stereotyping, religious bigotry, and political propaganda). Who did 9-11? That's a no-brainer, right? ARABS, of course. MUSLIMS. 'Nuf said. Let's Roll!"

And for those needing a clarification as to why young Neo is compared to young Americans, again, from Gary:

"In the very thought-provoking film The Matrix, Morpheus shows Neo that the masses of humankind are plugged into a computer program that is as anti-human as it is falsely reassuring and comfortable. "The Matrix is everywhere," he tells him. "It is all around us You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see? Business people, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."

To unplug ourselves we need to swallow the red pill that lets us see the matrix for what it really is. To unplug the comfortably misled 69%, we need to show them the matrix that is the world map; and let them see who controls it, and them. "What are you trying to tell me," asks Neo, when told of the special role he has to play, "that I can dodge bullets?" "No, Neo," replies Morpheus, "I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."

So, shall we welcome the bullets, dodge them, or hope that THE FORCE is with us? Ah me... "the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."

BJ 9/14/2003 11:18:00 AM