hmmmm .... who fought all the bots? The people. Some were born inside the free city. Others were freed.

The anomaly, Neo, came from inside the matrix. The people bought the time for Neo to reach his goal.

But eventually, to balance things out, Neo had to be absorbed by the Smith program, in order to destroy it. It was not the end of the Matrix. But what the French would call: Co-habitation, where the right to leave the Matrix was established.

The analogy, like all analogies, eventually goes way off, but there is quite a lot one could learn from the movie.

For instance: what is driving Neo? The right to chose. = Liberty!

The chat with Merovingian, a technocrat. He does not recognize choice as the prime mover, but sees it as an illusion, due to power difference. As long as you can hide this image of power difference, you can leave people fooled in the choice illusion. Only those who discover the why have enough power to make choices and force their will.

Note what he says: it is my program to know everything. By knowing everything, he mistakes it for why. He cannot fathom the idea not knowing. While relishing in his genius of showing people to be out of control, he misses one vital spot: Persephone who also is now out of his control. And she made a choice to help. Why did she do that?

Tie this in with: Know thyself.

Was the Merovingian wrong? Was Neo wrong? Or is it a little bit of both?

Morpheus made the choice to go on a quest to find the One. Why? Conviction based on what? Did Morpheus, who Trinity said knew more than Neo could fathom, know everything?

How about Nioby and her ship? There was that captain who was so convinced of his own views, he even forgot he had no say of what she was to do with her own ship. Why did she give Neo and Trinity her ship?

How about the commander who defended the city. A man, convinced of his own capabilities and musings. Did he know everything? Was he capable of looking at things in a different light? Or was he deep down in tunnel vision and prevented it him from knowing?

Why did Trinity trust Neo to get Morpheus back? Where did that trust come from? Did she know rationally or was there something else?

What is our program? Who are we? Is it our program to manifest? To generate? To project? To reflect?
What is our deeper self role?

hmmmm .... who fought all the bots? The people. Some were born inside the free city. Others were freed.

The anomaly, neo, came from inside the matrix. The people bought the time for Neo to reach his goal.

But eventually, to balance things out, Neo had to be absorbed by the Smith program, in order to destroy it. It was not the end of the Matrix. But what the French would call: Co-habitation, where the right to leave the Matrix was established.

The analogy, like all analogies goes way off, but there is quite a lot one could learn from the movie.

For instance: what is driving Neo? The right to chose. = Liberty!

The chat with Merovingian, a technocrat. He does not recognize choice as the prime mover, but sees it as an illusion, due to power difference. As long as you can hide this image of power difference, you can leave people fooled in the choice illusion. Only those who discover the why have enough power to make choices and force their will.

Note what he says: it is my program to know everything. By knowing everything, he mistakes it for why. He cannot fathom the idea not knowing. While relishing in his genius of showing people to be out of control, he misses one vital spot: persephone who also is now out of his control. And she made a choice to help. Why did she do that?

Tie this in with: Know thyself.

Was the Merovingian wrong? Was Neo wrong? Or is it a little bit of both?

Morpheus made the choice to go on a quest to find the One. Why? Conviction based on what? Did Morpheus, who Trinity said knew more than Neo could fathom, know everything?

What is our program? Who are we? Is it our program to manifest? To generate? To project? To reflect?
What is our deeper self role?