You are defined as a man by what sort of relationship you have with reality. To truly see reality breaks both your back and your heart. But once you do, it frees up your hands to tinker and your feet to roam. That's the basic bargain. Or you can accept some convenient lie
The Matrix remains the foundational myth of our century because it's about waking up to what IS. The naked, brutal, ugly truth preferred over the sensuous, pleasurable, convenient lie - for power only belongs to the one with his eyes open
The flipped page, the strange dream, the impassioned debates - all human attempts to reach clarity. Reaching clarity strains the eye, taxes the mind, exhausts you at a muscular level - but only out of the weight of the truth can you forge swords that will conquer the world
The map is not an instrument of science but of control (of the land)
The book is not an instrument of art but of control (of the mind)
Reality will be understood and tolerated so we can master it
The book is not an instrument of art but of control (of the mind)
Reality will be understood and tolerated so we can master it
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