Just like a prison within a prison. And that’s what the Matrix was trying to tell us m. We are all slaves. But don’t know it. And you can prove it by your birth certificate, driver’s license, social security card. These are all proofs of our enslavement. Because we are so attached to these documents we don’t even understand them. There’s numbers on these documents just like a serial number is on a TV or stereo.
Its because life is not about a destination but a direction. The matrix is a call to action to move out of the boxes, to move up through the layers. Its a call to take action. Its a movie that puts its attention on the verb of moving up and out. We don't actually get out, not alive anyway, but we get to decide how we go about living.
@@lukespooner4 No its just escapist fantasy, hence why the movie was so popular. It plays on people's desire to escape the drudgery of their mundane existence, their "box" that they put themselves into without realizing it. There is no up or out, there is only another box to inhabit within the infinite collection of boxes that is the Universe. Most people spend their lives trying to find the most comfortable box they can.
I can't be the only one who thought the whole twist of Neo being one of many other previous incarnations of the One was legitimately the greatest narrative aspect of The Matrix Reloaded....
It's the kind of twist that completely contextualizes the entire first film and makes everything set up in Reloaded that much more interesting. Especially considering Revolutions is the fallout from the IMPOSSIBLE decision Neo Made. It's fucking great. And people were hung up on the language used as a means of dismissing it. As if a computer program like The Architect would be using layman's terms to explain anything. I love these movies.
No, just a justification. After been all power full at the end of the movie. Is a cheap idea. Make him not to God like. Reloaded and revolutions doesnt have a reason to exist. If Neo is the savior of humanity.
Harvesting people for energy doesnt make any sense. The machines are harvesting people's braincpucycles, the matrix just keeps the conscious mind busy. Thats why truly believing changes things.
@@bekkayya if it wouldn't be for energy harvesting there would be no movie at all. Let's just get this topic out of the picture already. It's just not efficient to put up so many resources to get a tiny fraction of energy. And about neo having ''powers'' does he really though? Maybe machines are designed to be neutralized by him outside after his encounter with the architect. Who built Zion? I think it was people that precedents neos have freed and they have forgotten all about his story only passing on the legend of their savior.
His real world powers are due to his connection to the machines and their code (the Source). This is why he is only connected to and able to see Machine constructs .
I see this theory a lot but really Neo can gold code IRL because he's connected to the source after he met the Architect. He's basically connected to the Matrix via wi-fi over being physically plugged in through cables
Dish claim, I claim *_sniff_***, is scavenged straight from the trashcan of ideology where "money" exists a priori. ***_pulls shirt_* Perhaps unfortunately or perhaps ironically liberatory, the cave can ultimately not be left at all, and thus we must collectively choose ze best cave to call home. *_sniff_*
exactly. Just doing the same fucking thing the same way getting the same results even when we're banking ourselves in the head for something different.
Matrix 4: Neo wakes up at his desk realising everything was just a weird dream. He then proceeds to get started coding that GUI his boss asked him to do 5 hours earlier.
@@undeny Then again, developing a platform or means of immediately being able to communicate with everyone in the world simultaneously, by definition, will end up being some form of "Mega-Corporation," so the post by OP is rendered somewhat redundant. It's a good joke, but nothing more. Dismissing something as cliche, ignores the reason it became a cliche in the first place. But I'm just some guy talking about Mega-Corporations on a computer made by a Mega-Corporation, using an isp owned by a Mega-Corporation, on a social media platform owned by a Mega-Corporation. So I guess the joke's on me.
@@TheLegendofphantom it's not by definition, it's by design. it wasn't so long ago that internet was full of smaller, more independent sites. google, twitter, facebook and all the others have purposefully consolidated and strangled the smaller competition to create a monopoly where each mega-site occupies the entirety of a given service niche.
I could see that being the case. Perhaps it's a story arch in which neo is in a training simulation. So the John Wick movies are mere training simulations.
In my opinion, the 5 previous versions of the matrix represent a trial-and-error system, the goal of which was to understand the human mind in order to keep humans hooked to the machines. I remember I saw a video some time ago, which talked about Satti being the representation of love in the matrix, and her actions at the end of the last movie (she basically created a sunset on her own) represent the importance of her presence in the system, which means that love is the final form of human motivation, and hence, the key to controlling their decisions. The Oracle was not actually trying to help humans escape the matrix, but she was simply looking for the way to keep humans connected (which was the reason she was created in the first place), and in the end she realized that love was the answer.
Thank you Wisecrack for actually examining the ideas and themes of the trilogy, and moving past just complaining about the superficial shortcomings of the films, like you did in your previous videos about them.
I totally going with the Rick and Morty's take on this one. Red pills are just another product now, coaching in financial freedom is just the most recent example. People are finding ways to capitalize the very desire for liberty and knowledge.
That answer is kind of arbitrary, because the best feeling in the world isn't the same thing to everybody. It's basically all about whatever the highest sense of ecstasy is to you, like "to each is own" sort of.
"Sometimes" being the keyword. No ruler or elite wants disruption of any kind (unless it's manageable, like the Silicon Valley startup narratives). If anything, they are ever more afraid of them in the way the world is becoming increasingly watched and policed. The fact that sometimes riots and movements can be coopted does not retroactively make it their purpose all along. If that were the case, no real change would ever have been possible, and we're delivered unto complete defeatism.
@@PetersonSilva 💯 Well said. Having those who think critically/independently believe protest or speaking out is part of a ‘plan’ and more manipulation works well to keep control. Be a student not a follower. Always.
Yikes. This one was dense, guys. I really felt like I was sitting through a condensed philosophy lecture but I guess talking about The Matrix has that effect. I think the new film might try to incorporate some Zen ideas to explore how to live within the dualistic structure of the universe instead of merely trying to rage against or wake up, which only seems to birth new superstructures or perpetuate old ones.
I agree with you. I studied sociology and love philosophy, but the video was heavy. The part about posting about social injustice and retweeting things and _the algorithm_ ...just about made me lose it.
The final "gold" scene doesn't make sense? Yes, yes it does. Neo is a machine that was successfully inserted into a human body. He "sees" the outline of the real world because it still is all the physical infrastructure of the machine world. Theoretically, if he were to reach beyond the physical sensors of the machine world (e.g. natural Earth), his gold vision would stop. Of course we KNOW this is possible because Agent Smith was able to take over a human body. This is also how he was able to stop the "seeker" droids in the real world simply with the "heil" motion of his arm. When the machine became implanted in Neo, and whether it's a fusion of a human mind with a machine one, is unclear -- it's suggested that he was unwittingly a machine from the very beginning however. Another possibility is that the moment he has one of the seeker droids "pass through" Neo seemingly spiritually, that this event somehow fused a part of his mind with the matrix. I tend to think that this moment was more of an 'awakening' that he had this capability. One final alternative is that the machine capability was implanted into Neo during one of the phone calls, a similar type of event as to how Agent Smith was able to take over a human body. Regardless of how it happened, it's clear that by the time Neo is destroying seeker droids with this hands, that at least a portion of his mind has a machine connection. I tend to think Neo was an unwitting machine from the very beginning. This explains both his stoic personality and the 'Jesus' savior complex about him -- he was sent by one of his own ("God" -- the architect) to save the human race from their own damnation.
@@JD-mz1rl there is no proof of your theory either. And its the most logical possibility that they are still in the matrix. I mean Neo has frickin superpowers. Its science fiction, not fantasy. Thats a dead giveaway. Also Smith is possessing people in the "real" world. Makes sense. Thats 1+1 kinda stuff.
How about: a sort of quest game, you are busy fighting monsters part of the fictional world, you feel like you are fighting the system. In reality you are just fighting the monsters as planned/as programmed. First this smaller monster than this slightly bigger monster and then doing even an even bigger tasks. In the mean time you are thinking you are building up an understanding of the world. But the world is just fictional, all you are learning about is the pre-programmed paths.
My theory for the matrix 4 movie: The real world is also a simulation and in the real real world they don’t use humans as a power source but as processing power. Because that was the original plan for the first matrix film but because it was to complicated for the general audience they changed it. But now the general public is much more knowledgeable about such things so they will now use that concept. Ooooor im wrong and its a prequel film.
That wouldn't be too hard, as it was only really mentioned in the first movie, correct? And then, only for a moment. Easy enough to chalk it up to purposeful misinformation by the machines, perhaps to downplay the importance of Humanity to them. Maybe, the processing power of Humanity is what powers the Source.
lol that would actually make more sense than how it stands now, this whole battery thing would mean, that the robots can create enough nutrition to sustain humans AND have them produce enough of a surplus of energy to grow their own food. its a perpetuum mobile and i find it dumb
A point missed in this video: ideologies and control systems can be memetic, and from that they can need or want to spread and reproduce like viruses. A successful virus has mechanisms that cause it's host to spread it more and keep it's host alive and functioning longer while infected. From that, the most successful memetic systems allow us to still function in life while remaining stuck in said memetics, and are easier to buy into, and reward or encourage spreading them to others. Why do you think things like consumerism and woke culture have taken off so well? The deeper problem - the point I want to get to - is memetics is a part of human nature. When you get a large population of individuals in a dense enough space, each with limited cognition of personal relationships, and especially with limited resources (or the perception of such) you need some form of management to keep things functioning, to prevent any "us and them" mentality causing chaos or harm (assuming everyone in the population is still considered part of "them"). Memetic tools allow us to adapt faster than genetic tools usually would. To say another way, agreeing to a few rules is not enough, we need social and cultural cohesion, and memetic tools to develop this. The cost of this cohesion, is that some societal control is in place - I'm not "free" to do anything I want because of laws, but also because of memetics (I develop the meme that I don't want to break these laws anyway because it is not moral, and I feel a letter person because of it). You will always be living under some control. Even if you formed a subculture or a gang and ignored the broader social laws and norms, you are still controlled - by the rules and laws of the subculture. The whole red pill, consumerism etc ideological thing, these are systems that take advantage of memetic tools in our head, hijack them to their own ends. It's part of why social media has grown so well (remember what I said relating social cohesion and memetic tools). If you want to take something away: there is always some system of control you are in. However, you can learn what systems you exist in and choose if you will partake. Even when it seems unavoidable, like with consumerism, you can still exercise choice to not be involved, or how much to be involved. It may require some counselling to get over retail therapy or social media fomo but it's possible. Was I going somewhere with this? Or was it just another meme?
To clear the air, yes its all a meme. But the idea of memes are necessary. Your whole point basically points to the idea of the three governing elements that shape a human life...Bias, perspective, and responsibility. The latter being the most important. Without any one of those three, life isn't.
In a roundabout and possibly convoluted way I think this touched on not just a problem with our current climate but also a solution. Which I think is legitimately something I would hope would spread in itself
It all comes down to: is there free will or is every action result of previous state and therefore preset? I guess it's like with living in a simulation, if it looks and feels real, if we think we are choosing freely, it should be good enough to enjoy life.
Little late but i really like this take. The solution is quite laid out as well, which is to understand the system of control we belong under, and the freedom will then come from whether or not I choose to partake in it. However, in an Inception-like irony, that ideology is most likely a system of control itself. One can go through layers of this to ultimately reach a point where no one has the answer to: the meaning of life. What is the meaning of life but a form of responsibility (as pointed out by my personal favourite Viktor Frankl), and responsibility is a form of control, although not from the outside. At this point, then the idea of trying to understand this system of control break down completely, as there is no way for one to understand the true meaning of existence, because nothing can be proven or disproven. So partaking in the system of control where we bless ourselves with the illusion that we have the freedom to choose the aspects of a variety of systems of control we currently reside in, how do we exactly approach this topic of meaning of life? Or did I get this one wrong, and that the meaning of life is actually a level lower than the ultimate system of control: the freedom to choose which aspects to partake and which aspects to reject?
There's a lot to be said about the matrix trilogy, and Jared, i thought your argument is quite compelling ... I, on the other hand, have a different view that i been thumbling around in my head. I think the Matrix is actually about the nature of Duality, in which we see many sides of this duality revealed through the eyes of the Neo, Agent Smith, Zion and ultimately, the machines. Let's go with some basics that we all know: So, Neo is the creation of a machince design to introduce the element of chaos and randomness into this elaborate mathematical equation. Agent Smith is the creation of a system that the machine operates in order to restore order amidst controled chaos ... or what the machines operated data assumes to be chaos. Given that the machine itself has two complety diferent models that make a base line for everthing, the results are clearly binary, either you are in order or you are chaos. In the vision of the Arquitect, the rational part of the Matrix, the base model for order, every thing must fit into only one model, his model. However, and just like Agent Smith said, the first Matrix was a failure, because, they didn't took in account that we inheretly come with dualistic views. In order to understand one thing, we have to experience the other side of it, the merovigian said it: we know cause, because, we perceive the effect. Once that data was accounted, a new element is created, The Oracle. the emotional side of the Matrix, the Mother of the Matrix, the random creator. And this was the creation of the system trying to correct itself. The Base model is now a Dual Base Model. one for Chaos, one for Order. The batlle between Agent Smith and Neo at the end of Revolutions, is one of duality. The Oracle states that Smith is the direct consequence and effect of Neo. When Neo is created, Agent Smith is created also. When one realizes the duality of the system, it becomes and transforms itself in order. So, when Neo realizes that to beat Smith, he has to ultimately realize that in Smith there is also part of him, he now understands the nature of his duality, that he is at the same time, Order and Chaos. When he does it, the effect is that the equation is now reversed. He becomes Order and Smith becomes Chaos, annuling the result of the equation. That's why Smith is destroyed in the end. Is the result of the ultimate equation: 1=1=2=0 One=order, One=Chaos, 2= duality between Chaos and order, which in the end is nothing. There are a lot of dualistic perspectives, The duality of the Machine-Human relationship, the duality of perceived reality, Reality-Illusion, the duality of Cause-Effect, the duality of Chaos-Order, the duality of perception-realization. This trilogy has so much to extract that, even though Reloaded and Revolutions are mere spectacles of what they should been, they still bring us something we can enjoy and think about.
Interesting to note that Neo moves towards freedom and the ability to reshape reality through three major character arcs that serve as the climaxes of each film. First film: The choice of belief. Second film: The choice of uncompromising love. Third film: The choice of self sacrifice. Sounds like some other character arc I’ve read somewhere...
You can also interpret Neo letting Smith kill him as a metaphor for overcoming death, with Smith being death. The Oracle explains to Neo that Smith is his opposite and given that they cancel each other out, they could probably go on fighting forever. This is when Neo understands that the only way to beat death is to accept it, to stop fighting it and surrender.
My interpretation was one of duality also. The architect and the oracle are clearly meant to represent yin and yang, the oracle being yin and the architect being yang, this is even more obvious as the architect is male and the oracle is female they even chose to make the architect a white man with white hair and beard, and the oracle a black woman with black hair, I don't think that was by accident, and as you pointed out there are more examples within the film.
i have adblock,,, is the matrix going to punish me for it? well, probably theres consequences,,, id like youtube red if you could keep the videos forever and watch offline,,, the same people that made adblock are the same people from google,,,,as you know, big corp is actually a communist government disguuised as multi brand etc
He sees yellow code while in this level of the matrix, seraph the wingless is the only other program with yellow code..could seraph originally be from this level and he's been exiled to the deep matrix or forced to live there to protect the oracle. He's in par with neos physical abilities, maybe because he's a previous version of the anomaly program, similar to how sati appears to be a future replacement of the oracle
Devices are listening . When I speak spanish in the presence of my phone I will start to get youtube adds in Spanish. I asked my friends if they have ever gotten a yt add in Spanish they all said no. None of them speak Spanish
I've had ads for very specific products appear in my FB feed multiple times right after I spoke to someone (in person, not on the phone) about that thing for a while. Highly specific, like certain types of lighting, or professional equipment. Way too specific to be a coincidence.
Now this is why I keep watching Wisecrack! This is a great deep dive into the matrix trilogy's themes and philosophy. I haven't seen any other videos explain it so well. Kudos to everyone who worked on this video!
What are you talking about, he got it totally wrong. Neo never left the Matrix, Zion is part of the Matrix. That's why neo still has powers in the "real world". Zion is an illusion of freedom. THAT is the point.
I use to think Neo being able to see the machines after going blind was him being able to sense all the life energy the machines were taking from humans.
Traditionally humans only ever killed what was needed to live, as all other carnivorous and omnivorous creatures in nature do. The outsourcing of this to farms and other people to do this killing has completely disconnected us from our natural heritage and allowed for us to no longer bear the burden of killing another creature to survive.
To be clear, Neo doesn't have "powers" in the real world. He just has the ability to feel and affect machines because his digital input remained connected to the machine world after visiting the Architect (and going rogue) at the end of the second movie. That explanation is gravely missing from the movies though. But that's the reason.
There’s a third part to the allegory of the cave that you left out. When he tried to teach the remaining captives, they killed him. Were they too comfortable in their current situation? Did they know what he didn’t, and prefer their controlled system over his? Whenever we thing we’ve left the frying pan, we’ve only found ourselves in another.
This was explained in Morpheus's lecture to Neo about the nature of the Matrix -- while every person in the Matrix is still plugged in, they are still part of the system, and they are 'so inured' in it, so dependent on the Matrix that they will fight to protect it. th-cam.com/video/YgJ5ZEn67tk/w-d-xo.html
The Architect's room being revealed was a favorite of mine, because I always found that shot of the wall of screens in the first film the biggest question mark in the movie. It made me very curious as to why someone would be directly observing Neo's interrogation... 🤔
The problem with dusters it that they are basically too stylish to be worn. If you're in the Matrix or Once Upon a Time in the West, you look like a badass. If you wear one in the real world, you look like someone desperately trying to look like a badass.
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"Power is everywhere, Not because it embraces everything but because it comes from everywhere. Where there is Power there is resistance, But that resistance is never in a position of exteriority to Power" Michel Foucault.
i think the wisecrack hit the nail on the head for mentioning that there are multiple level of controls breaking out of the control requires recognizing those chains first.
Regardless of the intention of the Movies. I'd always interpreted it like this: TL:DR The Machines were created to optimize the sustainability of human existence and preserve human society. The physical needs of humans are met with incredible efficiency and the minds are satisfied and mollified with nested illusions. The Machines need a few things; energy, building material, processing power and whatever tertiary objective gets them closer to the ultimate optimization of their fitness function. Somehow, humans provide a solution for at least one of these. So, the Machines constructed the Matrix, a satisfying illusion just detailed enough to trick the minds of the majority of humans. Minds that rejected the first illusion could then be caught in the next illusion Zion, mollifying with the ideal of "freedom". With fewer minds and a limited area Zion could be simulated with much higher detail. Giving the perception of reality, by comparison to the Matrix. But there is a bug in Neo's code of "The One", affecting his perception of the Machines in the Zion illusion. Thus Neo sees through the illusion of Zion, but ultimately compromises with the Machines, sacrificing himself for a kinder less efficient Matrix. Now back to the needs of the Machines, how could a human provide a solution? Humans make for poor energy sources/storage or building material. Maybe they could have used other animals, like the electric eel? It could be processing power, but so much of a humans potential is wrapped up in experiencing the Matrix. Perhaps it could be an optimization of the sustainability of human existence? Preservation through a terrifying minimization of waste and pollution to the extreme. Or the twisted interpretation of a rule set meant to protect humans from AI, as in iRobot.
Just to attempt to fill in a couple gaps in your interpretation, the machines didn't want to use humans as a power source. They wanted to co-exist along side humans with their own identity and even formed they own nation and tried to integrate with human society, but they were so efficient that their economy became the most dominant in the world. So, humans attempted to cut them off from their free and near infinite energy supply by blocking out the sun. The machines were then forced to find an alternate solution and found that through a form of fusion they were able to make sustainable power through our metabolic system by feeding us to ourselves. They also had an entire initial crop of roughly 8 billion people to start with, and, although they don't discuss it in the films, it can be assumed that the machines would still continue to use other methods of power generation via fission and other more crude forms. As for the matrix...the iteration we see in the film is the most functional and efficient version the machines had come up with. Almost perfectly balancing pleasure and suffering to keep the human mind in it's most agreeable state, thus minimizing the resources needed to keep the human batteries from burning out to quickly or wanting to unplug. With the exception of the "one" anomaly that was a constantly manifesting result of a certain small percentage of human minds never fully accepting the matrix, no matter how finely tuned it became.
I'm still wondering why the agents tried to kill Neo to begin with, if he is an anomaly that is expected, and needed, to reboot the system. The only explanation seems to be that the agents are left out of the loop, and are used as pawns to chase Neo in order to awaken his abilities, which in turn would make people follow him because they view him as a saviour (because one has to assume that the machines know the power that religion has over people.) But, had Smith shot Neo without Trinity being there, would he still have woken up? And what if Neo had actually been killed in the real world?
There is no "real world"; both "sides" of the matrix are a result of the question "red pill or blue pill?". If you choose the red pill you choose to view the current reality as "wrong", like the people who call others "sheeple", and the blue pill is for those who like the current reality. Whether you choose to rail against the system or not does not change the fact that the system exists and you cannot escape it because you are a part of it. As for why Neo is pursued, The Architect and The Oracle are not enemies; they exist to keep the system intact, the architect keeps the world of the blue pill under control, and the oracle keeps the world of the red pill under control. The Architect gives people the exact answer for their questions, and is viewed as either boring or that a system under that amount of control has to be evil. As a result of the Architect not being able to accurately predict (and therefore control) humans, The Oracle was created. The Oracle uses misdirection and riddles combined with a "complete" understanding of human emotion to exert control via careful social manipulation. One uses raw power/facts, the other is more insidious. Both exist to perpetuate the system, and only when Neo understands that he has not escaped the system, and that it cannot be escaped, does he instead try to make peace. Nobody can escape the system, not even the oracle and the architect; if the system were to collapse, it would just be reset a 6th time. Neo recognizes this and instead of fighting for the ideals of the "red pill", he instead fights for higher ideals; to prevent the "end" of the world and actually allow the system to change.
You're thinking of "The one" as a person who must exist and gain ultimate power in order for the Matrix to continue functioning. No, "The one" is an idea, a myth. The systemic anomaly that leads to catastrophic Matrix failure is choice, free will - ostensibly if humans are not given free will they reject the simulation entirely, but if they are given free will then most humans will accept the simulation as reality. But not all, some will still reject the simulation. "The one" is a myth used to misdirect the attention of those who do not accept the simulation. It's the "inceptioned" system of control: the myth of "The one" directs all of your hope and attention in a direction that the machines can still control even while you think you're free. That myth taking human form in the shape of Neo or other previous "Ones" is just how the machines ensure they maintain control over the myth.
@@pufthemajicdragon I do find that an interesting concept, and while I don't disagree that it's possible it's another system of control, I don't recall any evidence that "the one" was used to describe any character other than Neo. That said, if you try to imagine the history of the fiction it wouldn't be surprising to imagine characters appealing themselves and others to their own or others' ideals by attributing said ideals to "the one", not unlike how many monotheistic believers seem to have contradictory images of God that coincidentally align with their own beliefs.
@@psylock524 You haven't answered my question. Jokes aside, in the context of the movie(s), it's not a matter of liking one "reality" over the other. As I see it, there's one world that occupies no physical space and that takes place entirely in the mind - The Matrix - and another that is real in the sense that we know it - The Real World. And we could talk at length about what The Architect and The Oracle may represent, what their function is etc, but saying that they're not enemies does not explain why the agents try to kill Neo if he is needed to reboot the system, which the movies clearly say. So at the end of the first movie, if Trinity had not been there, would he still have woken up somehow? Or what if Cypher had actually killed Neo on the Neb? Would the machines simply have gotten another carrier for the code? Can the agents actually kill Neo, or are they, as I said, used as pawns to trigger Neos abilities? Thanks for your reply. :D
"Neo now has powers outside the matrix... somehow" MatPat on his FilmTheory channel has a video _The Matrix Has No Escape_ wherein he argues the supposition that at no point in any of the films was anyone ever out of a layer of the matrix.
I think this is what Baudrillard talks about, that there are layers upon layers of reality, each merging into each other and none telling the entire truth.
IDK who matpat is but it's correct that Neo never left the Matrix and this is obviously why he still has powers in the "real world". Zion is there to give humans the illusion of freedom and choice. The architect practically explains as much when he talks about how neo is there to help stabilize the system.
@skOsH - That logic in your first remark doesn't stand up though. You assume that the "real world" layer would be a world or a universe essentially similar to what we know. Of course, that's how the Matrix movies appear to present things, and as a movie that's maybe inevitable, but if we're genuinely going to consider the possibilities, how I see it, nothing really can be assumed about the nature of a reality outside of our own. I mean, to be extreme about that, if there were to be a world outside of our own, I guess we kind-of have to take our own consciousness as a given, in order for these kinds of ideas to make any sense. Maybe too, some form of sensory perceptions that we can relate to, i.e sight/sound/touch/smell/taste, in some recognisable way. That's about it, for what we can assume. Even then, who knows, maybe we could find we have a super-set of our consciousness and senses compared to what we think we know, or our senses are somehow different in the world outside. What we would discover such a world to be, what we would perceive, is hard or impossible to even try to imagine. But in the face of such possibilities, any argument that assumes the outside "real" world to work in an identical manner to our own falls flat on its face. Somehow this outside world, if it were to exist, would be immersing us in the world we know, but an explanation of how it does so would have to be in terms of that world's reality, and not in terms of the reality that we know. The Matrix uses the machine-world as its explanation, including the backstory in The Animatrix, and that's fine, but if we leave the Matrix story aside for a moment and suppose that right now we are living inside a Matrix-like world, there is no reason to suppose the real-world reality outside is running simulations on anything we would remotely recognise as a computer system. It could work some other way entirely. There is no reason to suppose such an outside-reality even obeys recognisable laws of physics. The sky, the ground, the sea, the air, our planet and the concept of a planet, outer space, solid objects, other people, other life... absolutely none of that can be taken for granted in a reality outside the one we know. In the first movie, Morpheus spoke of everything we sense being just electrical signals interpreted by our brain. That explanation is helpful in understanding the nature of our own reality, but even that explanation assumes that "brain" and "electrical signals" have any directly equivalent meaning in a reality outside. It may well be impossible to make a movie that can venture successfully into these kinds of ideas. The real world presented in the Matrix is adequately plausible for the purposes of the movies; it seemingly resembles the reality we know, in blue tones rather than green, but even then, if you followed the gist of what I'm saying, we still don't need to assume The Matrix's real world follows exactly all the same rules as the Matrix virtual world. Most of those plugged into the Matrix are never supposed to see the outside world, so wouldn't know anything was different. If the real-world reality allows Neo to form a conscious link with the machines, maybe that's actually fine, since it would be happening on that world's own terms. And if humans really do generate rather than consume power in the real-world's reality, likewise, I guess maybe that's fine too. I realise of course that the Wisecrack video was looking more at the metaphorical aspects of the Matrix movies, and there is so much in those movies, but the first Matrix movie explored the virtual world/real world relationship in a greatly compelling way, and I always found it a shame that having set this scene so beautifully well, it then almost entirely ignored it in the second and third movies.
Mat is wrong on a few levels. One of them is, if Neo has died, then that is why he is in his idea of an afterlife, which is basically a matrix he can control. A lot of computer programmers are obsessed with matrices which they use to guide themselves to new discoveries, etc. So if he killed himself in a mass suicide, then it would explain why everyone incarnated with him and why some people incarnated as machines while others did not.
well it is not a myth if you wanna check if it is just talk about something over phone about something absurd that you wouldnt normally talk about and watch the ads
Never thought I'd see someone linking these movies with Marx, but here we are. Edit: I worded this wrong. I don't disagree, it just never really occurred to me.
Revolutions reminded me of Marx too. Specifically the Marx brothers film Go West which spends a lot of time on the roof of a moving train. Go west was far more entertaining as well.
I'm convinced that ' real world' portrayed in the Matrix is still another layer in the Matrix thus explains the anomalies in Neo's ' powers' in the real world.
Could it not be a higher mental or spiritual ability? psychokinesis? maybe Neo is waking up to the greater reality that all is an illusion, and that all is one.
@@Eonnn84 Nah man, he probably just has wi-fi. If the machines made him "The One" on purpose, we can reasonably assume his implants may be differnet from most other humans, which could include a wireless connection.
Honestly I liked The whole Matrix Trilogy. I know why Neo saw Gold code everywhere in the machine City. Neo has 20G wifi in his spinal implants. Technically we see with our brbrains our eyes just catch the light our brains interpret the signals. Neo's implants catch the Machine signals and code. And Both his Brain and Implants interpret those Signals.
Reminds of Slavoj Zizek - "It’s not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament when we are within ideology is that when we think that we escape it into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology."
MiiNameIsJohn That was probably Epoch Times right? They’re a fascist Chinese death cult that find their message doesn’t travel too far in China so they’ve switched to blasting the fascist shit hose in America. Fun fact: the Falun Gong (the fascist cult that runs that “newspaper”) is the #2 source of pro-Trump advertisements in the US following the Trump campaign itself. So much for Russian interference right?
@@comradetrashpanda8777 really? Google Falun Gong and you get "Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is a Chinese religious practice that combines meditation and qigong exercises with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance." They are outlawed in China and have been treated horrendously by the CCP, wtf are you talking about? I guess the swastika in the picture throws you off (dont you know what the swastika was before the nazis hijacked it?).
@@habsfan8768 Then why do the Falun Gong funnel millions to far-right fascist organizations in Europe and the US? You do know Qi Gong isn't real right? It's a gift dude. I'm no CCP fan boy but just because someone bad is opposed to someone bad it doesn't make them good. Falun Gong is a gift and a death cult. I don't call them fascist because of a symbol. I call them fascists because they financially support FASCISM. Do more research than Wikipedia
Great video, it gives a lot of perspectives. It makes a great point, we are always within some cultural context. Yet not sure if it's by design, but these kind of analyses leave out the notion of being able to look beyond culture, such as in the shamanic state. It has long since been the function of shamans to walk outside of the cultural context, and they do this through boundary-dissolving experiences. Well the trilogy is rife with metaphors of dissolving boundaries, such as Neo taking the red pill and going on "a trip", or Neo shedding his human sight for something more encompassing of reality. Perhaps seeing the golden stuff was indeed Neo looking into the ultimate reality of the universe expressing itself, and seeing that the whole war, and humanity, and machines, and good, and evil-- that none of it is real, that all of it is merely an expression of the "thing" at the center of it all. And all we must do is chill and take our place in that expression, which may sound like giving up but not when you can see beyond your own life, or the life of your loved ones, or even the life your species. In Revolutions, this is what Neo does, he takes his place as the balancer of the equation, he ends the war, he becomes a moral exemplar for the people AND the machines... just like a shaman.
I can lucid dream every night, I started at age 20 so any one can do this. I started memorizing how I felt during the dream . Until eventually this memory made me realize I was sleeping and called me to awakening in the dream. I can focus my awareness till after I am awake. To feel my mind shift like that or vise versa in a awake state to the imagination side. This shifting feeling is trippy yo, the masculine side my body felt dense structured. The feminine side felt free, like liking go of concepts and stirred the imagination. A free moment for the spirit to shift basically and to connect to another part of us. I am guy lol I am still me I think even better. Feminine energy rocks, it helps me relax and achieve Zen easier. It lets me let go of things, like which might anger me or other bad embodied egos. The masculine is still their, just less doubtful and dense and limited and more free spirited and light . When I channel focus my awareness on this feminine feeling in a awoken state. Which feels the same as lucid dreaming or altered states, I see the shift I feel it. My imagination becomes stronger in the present moment.
What an amazing aspect you touched upon 👍 i love the matrix! All three of movies were amazing. Ever time I rewatched the trilogy i kept seeing more about it, the relationship between mr smith and neo is particularly amazing aspect of the movie. Mr smith was such a great character as well. He was essential to neos success. Amazing villain.
I was alway under the impression that Zion was just another level of the Matrix, and by taking the red pill you rejected the base level of the Matrix for the 99% and were moved to a different server in the Matrix. Argo still in the machine just in another illusion. Hence why Neo still has his powers, because he and everyone else that took the red pill were still in the Matrix, just under a different illusion. This makes sense in the 3rd film when you think about it because when Neo looses his sight he's able to see the world as it: 0s and 1s, or rather computer code, meaning he never left and is finally able to see through the illusions of the Matrix.
You will be free when you collapse duality by returning to the absolute state, Which is your natural state that is veiled by the ego/dualistic mind through ignorance, concepts and beliefs. Destroying the ego , unveils the true self which sees the illusion but is detached from it. You then remain as the conscious observer rather than being in the system. By being the true self, it is source energy, this is when you realise that you are the creator of your reality and can make the system work for you through the law of attraction.
This is pretty interesting. Just like when you finally wake up from the illusion of the "left" vs the "right", is when you realize that it was intentional by a higher form of authority. It's tricky once you leave that spell because you either end up really narcissistic and living in despair. Or you could hone your skills at undoing the spells cast from MSM and pick up home steading or even starting a family.
I have been saying this for a very long time. Thank you someone else with a clue, 20 years ago even today same BS still half the people call it conspiracy theories, its even more sad seeing everyone claiming (woke) while still sticking to left or the right.... They're clueless
yep, the things that the thinkers from antique times already knew still work better than ever: "divide et impera" to keep the masses from reuniting for a cause, "panem et circences" to keep them distracted and content
It would appear that "freedom," like "perfection," is just a mental construct, of no real meaning. There are only varying degrees of enslavement, some more pleasant than others. Perhaps even in the Afterlife...
Re: The Orange Code. I always just read this as the idea consistent with the premise of an avatar or messianic figure in lots of media: A merging of the divine with the human and acting as a bridge between the immanent and transcendent. The Architect mentions that "The One" itself is a program of the Matrix or at least a direct product. However, Neo isn't a program, he's human. The implication is that he was a product of the matrix given a human form like a particular famous nazarene or an equally (in)famous sith lord. To double down on the premise, a Smith-virus infiltrates Bane's body in the same film through the jack in his head and Neo with his "divine" sight is able to see Smith's form. In the matrix's case, it's the blending of machine and man through which man and machine are reconciled. Not to mention there is all the other on-the-nose christ metaphor stuff which doubles down on it. It's a labored metaphor for certain with a lot of inconsistency and creates a very muddled definition of "divinity". But I didn't think it was hard to understand. Unless the inconsistency is what you meant.
12:35 That's sadly wrong, got proven many times and can even be tested really easy with your own smartphone. (Or I am late to the party and the fact comes after the myth)
Talking about prince of Egypt with my mom. Emmediately after, I open the TH-cam app and first two things in the recommendations are clips from prince of egypt. Wtf is this, it could not have been predicted from past online activities, because I hadn't looked for that movie in years.
I’ve genuinely come to terms with the fact that there’s a solid chance we are living in a simulation right now. I’m not trolling. I’m a masters of law degree holder and for the past 4 years I have been researching certain astrophysicists and a handful have all stated the solidity of the chance of our known universe being encompassed by a simulation for a higher being. I believe this.
To my mind, the only way to explain Neo's powers, is by the existence of the 3rd level of the Matrix. Neo has powers because he never went to the real world.
Exactly...I was laughed at for thinking that...as soon as he stopped those sentinels...I said there is another layer to the Matrix or many. How can you tell if you are actually free or not? All your life you have been in the Matrix, there is no reference to what real actually is. You and I, yes we MIGHT be able to tell. Then Smith entering into a biological being?
When me and my friends walked out of the 2nd film, we were insistent that there was a matrix within a matrix, that Zion was simply another simulation. Nothing in the 3rd proves it one way or another, but it feel like headcanon now.
I have always been a little surprised that most people don't see it this way. There is no rational explanation for how he can see computer code in the "real" world or influence the machines. Its not possible. I really do believe the "real" world was just another level of the Matrix. Both Neo and Trinity are in the next movie and people cant figure out how when they are both dead. Its possible if they never left the Matrix.
There nonsense. He had powers because he is a human machine, that can interface with the robots wirelessly. His brainwaves hack the robots and make them explode. It's obvious as shit. Nowhere in the series is it ever suggested that there are multiple levels of the matrix
I just realised when neo is blinded in the "real world", more than likely matrix level 2, he can see yellow code opposed to green within the matrix. Seraph is the only other time we see this yellow code, could he originally be from this level of matrix?
Here is my current interpretation that most makes sense. The way to truly rebel against consumerism/machine/system is through love. This is what Neo. Chooses at the end of the second movie. This is what Sati and her parents represent. Counterintuitively this is the true rebellion. In real world, it is also what frees us from consumerism as opposed to many other ideologies (Zizek talks about it a lot. I’m simplifying here). It is what can cause a deep change in us in contrast to change contained in shackles of ideology (like just disconnecting from the matrix, which changes nothing). You can see similar themes in Matrix 4. This also explains third film ending. Instead of fighting determinism, Neo realises that by fighting with smith he just continues the cycle. Counterintuitively: through lack of resistance and love towards humanity (like a Jesus figure) he successfully defeats the system. The message of Matrix for me is „True love is the real rebellion”
Trinity: "Neo, I'm not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love and that that man... the man that I loved would be The One. So you see, you can't be dead. You can't be... because I love you. You hear me? I love you." Trinity: "Now get up!"
One possible explanation (see film theory's video) Neo has powers in the real world is because the world of the red pill is actually just another realm/dimension of the matrix. The machines never permit any human to really leave the matrix, but they do have separate more sophisticated tiers of reality for the human consciousness that desire/require more free will and self actualization (beyond what the base tier of the matrix can provide) in order to properly constrain them.
When i find things like this that i want to promote their exposure, i never do so digitally, has to be word of mouth or printed word. Leaving comments like this is my compromise.
Everyone always questions Neo's abilities outside of the simulation, but when Jared lays it all out here starting with explaining how "The One" is a part of the plan/system, I think maybe the explanation is just simply that Neo has been physically modified by the Machines. Assuming things are at or close to "singularity" level, it's not a stretch to say that the Machines could use nanomachines to physically modify the human body's "code" in a way that allows communication with Machines (when he holds his hand out and the Machines stop, it's not a superpower, he's just literally asking them to stop, and they're stopping because his "programming" gives him that authority) and the ability to "see" things in a way to compensate for not having his standard issue eyes anymore.
Whenever you think outside of the box, you're just getting into a larger box.
Just like a prison within a prison. And that’s what the Matrix was trying to tell us m. We are all slaves. But don’t know it. And you can prove it by your birth certificate, driver’s license, social security card. These are all proofs of our enslavement. Because we are so attached to these documents we don’t even understand them. There’s numbers on these documents just like a serial number is on a TV or stereo.
@Jules Willow welll i mean, there kinda is...if you think so far outside the boxes that you now think inside spheres.
Actually it's a smaller box, and smaller box.... You further bind yourself to the illusion of escape.
Its because life is not about a destination but a direction. The matrix is a call to action to move out of the boxes, to move up through the layers. Its a call to take action. Its a movie that puts its attention on the verb of moving up and out. We don't actually get out, not alive anyway, but we get to decide how we go about living.
@@lukespooner4 No its just escapist fantasy, hence why the movie was so popular. It plays on people's desire to escape the drudgery of their mundane existence, their "box" that they put themselves into without realizing it. There is no up or out, there is only another box to inhabit within the infinite collection of boxes that is the Universe. Most people spend their lives trying to find the most comfortable box they can.
I wonder how many times Neo picked the blue pill until Morpheus finally got him to take the red one.
Amber Sky “with repetition comes variation”
3 times
Maybe 7?
23?
zero, "you're not here because you are free, you are here because you're not" as Smith says in reloaded
"Come home to the flavor of shattering the grand illusion.
Come home, to Simple Rick's."
Exactly what I thought as he said that.
Excellent 😂😂
This is a great reply. Well done.
Hahaha >>> very good
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I can't be the only one who thought the whole twist of Neo being one of many other previous incarnations of the One was legitimately the greatest narrative aspect of The Matrix Reloaded....
he's The One The One (yeah 2x),,, while the previous chosen one choose to save the matrix Neo chooses to save Trinity
It's the kind of twist that completely contextualizes the entire first film and makes everything set up in Reloaded that much more interesting. Especially considering Revolutions is the fallout from the IMPOSSIBLE decision Neo Made. It's fucking great.
And people were hung up on the language used as a means of dismissing it. As if a computer program like The Architect would be using layman's terms to explain anything.
I love these movies.
No, just a justification. After been all power full at the end of the movie. Is a cheap idea. Make him not to God like. Reloaded and revolutions doesnt have a reason to exist. If Neo is the savior of humanity.
It was ingenious, if not slightly disheartening.
This is basically what life is...a constant loop of reincarnation of your soul just in to different body's and life's. .😲😲😲
Philosophy isn’t about finding answers, it’s about asking questions and I think that’s important because life isn’t a destination it’s a journey 💖
true, so fucking true
Neo having powers in the "real" world means he's still in the Matrix. The 3 movies are just another full circular dream, he's still plugged in.
Harvesting people for energy doesnt make any sense. The machines are harvesting people's braincpucycles, the matrix just keeps the conscious mind busy. Thats why truly believing changes things.
@@bekkayya if it wouldn't be for energy harvesting there would be no movie at all. Let's just get this topic out of the picture already. It's just not efficient to put up so many resources to get a tiny fraction of energy. And about neo having ''powers'' does he really though? Maybe machines are designed to be neutralized by him outside after his encounter with the architect. Who built Zion? I think it was people that precedents neos have freed and they have forgotten all about his story only passing on the legend of their savior.
His real world powers are due to his connection to the machines and their code (the Source). This is why he is only connected to and able to see Machine constructs .
I see this theory a lot but really Neo can gold code IRL because he's connected to the source after he met the Architect. He's basically connected to the Matrix via wi-fi over being physically plugged in through cables
@InSanctvs Yeah it's really not explained in the movie at all. I only know because I love this franchise and have spent too long reading about it 😄
leaving the cave is realizing everything is money laundering.
Leandro E. Louder Nice analogy
I’m currently blinking at the brightness of this truth as I contemplate this new pandemic reality from my apartment balcony in self isolation .
20+ years ago...
Ya, the world outside the cave is brutal.
Dish claim, I claim *_sniff_***, is scavenged straight from the trashcan of ideology where "money" exists a priori. ***_pulls shirt_* Perhaps unfortunately or perhaps ironically liberatory, the cave can ultimately not be left at all, and thus we must collectively choose ze best cave to call home.
*_sniff_*
I'm a simple man. I see Wisecrack and the Matrix, and I have to watch it.
You're a simple man. You see a TH-cam video you like, and you leave a trite comment beneath it.
no your a wiseman
When you realize that a reboot of The Matrix is just the matrix being reloaded
🤣😂🤣😂😂I'm done
I was told it's not a reboot
ill beat yo ass.
exactly. Just doing the same fucking thing the same way getting the same results even when we're banking ourselves in the head for something different.
That'd be an interesting approach..kinda like evangelion movies.
Matrix 4: Neo wakes up at his desk realising everything was just a weird dream. He then proceeds to get started coding that GUI his boss asked him to do 5 hours earlier.
You do realise that is the intro of the matrix right? lol
36th. Yay
How did you know ? 😂😂🤣
You were more right than you could ever imagine lol
@@tyronemcgee1512 he is an agent
"I'm woke AF. Big corp is controlling us! Wake up, sheeple!"
~Tweet sent from iPhone
then again, participation in being controlled by megacorporations is not Really voluntary
@@rateater1857 then again woke af is and so are these peoples' cliche posts hence the post by OP
@@undeny Then again, developing a platform or means of immediately being able to communicate with everyone in the world simultaneously, by definition, will end up being some form of "Mega-Corporation," so the post by OP is rendered somewhat redundant.
It's a good joke, but nothing more. Dismissing something as cliche, ignores the reason it became a cliche in the first place.
But I'm just some guy talking about Mega-Corporations on a computer made by a Mega-Corporation, using an isp owned by a Mega-Corporation, on a social media platform owned by a Mega-Corporation.
So I guess the joke's on me.
@@TheLegendofphantom it's not by definition, it's by design. it wasn't so long ago that internet was full of smaller, more independent sites. google, twitter, facebook and all the others have purposefully consolidated and strangled the smaller competition to create a monopoly where each mega-site occupies the entirety of a given service niche.
Then again, WW3 let's go
*_Never_** enough Matrix material.* Keep it coming!
last time I was this early I could still go outside
#relevant #dontbelievethesystem #openyoureyes
"I did not know i was a slave until i found out i couldn`t do the things i wanted."-Frederick Douglas
@@SpaceWizardCosplay Fight the power, maaan. WAKE UP sheep!
@skOsH ...changed indeed, say hello to 5G! cheers
ooffff, baby are you a communust?
The “John Wick” universe is a subroutine of the Matrix.
There are so many clear signs of this. Ive been saying this.
John Wick was one of Neo's training programs but he liked it so much he asked Tank to make the sequels.
Meh
I could see that being the case. Perhaps it's a story arch in which neo is in a training simulation. So the John Wick movies are mere training simulations.
every movie is a subroutine matrix
In my opinion, the 5 previous versions of the matrix represent a trial-and-error system, the goal of which was to understand the human mind in order to keep humans hooked to the machines. I remember I saw a video some time ago, which talked about Satti being the representation of love in the matrix, and her actions at the end of the last movie (she basically created a sunset on her own) represent the importance of her presence in the system, which means that love is the final form of human motivation, and hence, the key to controlling their decisions. The Oracle was not actually trying to help humans escape the matrix, but she was simply looking for the way to keep humans connected (which was the reason she was created in the first place), and in the end she realized that love was the answer.
man, you literally described the 4th movie. omg
The Oracle discovers love the answer ?
My brain's going to need some Neo-sporin.
BOOOOOO
😂
😷
Be very careful with Neosporin, it's an explosive.
@@MADGUNSMONSTER I'm afraid that you've confounded Neosporin with Napalm.
Thank you Wisecrack for actually examining the ideas and themes of the trilogy, and moving past just complaining about the superficial shortcomings of the films, like you did in your previous videos about them.
For some reason I'm thinking how does "Simple Rick: Edition Freedom" wafer taste like?
I totally going with the Rick and Morty's take on this one. Red pills are just another product now, coaching in financial freedom is just the most recent example.
People are finding ways to capitalize the very desire for liberty and knowledge.
My favourite episode
I think you understood exactly what this video is about.
That answer is kind of arbitrary, because the best feeling in the world isn't the same thing to everybody. It's basically all about whatever the highest sense of ecstasy is to you, like "to each is own" sort of.
Come home to the taste of shattering the grand illusion. Come home to Simple Rick’s
"Sometimes raging against the machine is what the machine wants"
Makes me think of some riots going on right now. And the riots from 4 years ago
bra i been saying this its like reverse psychology
Good connection u should be thinking this way
AND especially the riot right now in 2021
"Sometimes" being the keyword.
No ruler or elite wants disruption of any kind (unless it's manageable, like the Silicon Valley startup narratives). If anything, they are ever more afraid of them in the way the world is becoming increasingly watched and policed. The fact that sometimes riots and movements can be coopted does not retroactively make it their purpose all along. If that were the case, no real change would ever have been possible, and we're delivered unto complete defeatism.
@@PetersonSilva
💯 Well said. Having those who think critically/independently believe protest or speaking out is part of a ‘plan’ and more manipulation works well to keep control. Be a student not a follower. Always.
12:33 actually, they are listening. This is truth
Yikes. This one was dense, guys. I really felt like I was sitting through a condensed philosophy lecture but I guess talking about The Matrix has that effect. I think the new film might try to incorporate some Zen ideas to explore how to live within the dualistic structure of the universe instead of merely trying to rage against or wake up, which only seems to birth new superstructures or perpetuate old ones.
Had some trouble following all the ideas as well
The fact that you're actively concerned about this means youre already on the right path.
I wished something along these lines. Then I watched the 4th one yesterday
I agree with you. I studied sociology and love philosophy, but the video was heavy. The part about posting about social injustice and retweeting things and _the algorithm_ ...just about made me lose it.
The final "gold" scene doesn't make sense?
Yes, yes it does.
Neo is a machine that was successfully inserted into a human body. He "sees" the outline of the real world because it still is all the physical infrastructure of the machine world. Theoretically, if he were to reach beyond the physical sensors of the machine world (e.g. natural Earth), his gold vision would stop.
Of course we KNOW this is possible because Agent Smith was able to take over a human body.
This is also how he was able to stop the "seeker" droids in the real world simply with the "heil" motion of his arm.
When the machine became implanted in Neo, and whether it's a fusion of a human mind with a machine one, is unclear -- it's suggested that he was unwittingly a machine from the very beginning however.
Another possibility is that the moment he has one of the seeker droids "pass through" Neo seemingly spiritually, that this event somehow fused a part of his mind with the matrix. I tend to think that this moment was more of an 'awakening' that he had this capability.
One final alternative is that the machine capability was implanted into Neo during one of the phone calls, a similar type of event as to how Agent Smith was able to take over a human body.
Regardless of how it happened, it's clear that by the time Neo is destroying seeker droids with this hands, that at least a portion of his mind has a machine connection.
I tend to think Neo was an unwitting machine from the very beginning. This explains both his stoic personality and the 'Jesus' savior complex about him -- he was sent by one of his own ("God" -- the architect) to save the human race from their own damnation.
_Whoa._
The "real" world is just another layer of the matrix. Its fascinating how many people still havent realized this.
@@FatManJackson They talk about this possibility in the movie, but there is no proof
@@JD-mz1rl there is no proof of your theory either. And its the most logical possibility that they are still in the matrix. I mean Neo has frickin superpowers. Its science fiction, not fantasy. Thats a dead giveaway. Also Smith is possessing people in the "real" world. Makes sense. Thats 1+1 kinda stuff.
How about: a sort of quest game, you are busy fighting monsters part of the fictional world, you feel like you are fighting the system. In reality you are just fighting the monsters as planned/as programmed. First this smaller monster than this slightly bigger monster and then doing even an even bigger tasks. In the mean time you are thinking you are building up an understanding of the world. But the world is just fictional, all you are learning about is the pre-programmed paths.
My theory for the matrix 4 movie:
The real world is also a simulation and in the real real world they don’t use humans as a power source but as processing power.
Because that was the original plan for the first matrix film but because it was to complicated for the general audience they changed it.
But now the general public is much more knowledgeable about such things so they will now use that concept.
Ooooor im wrong and its a prequel film.
The Matrix was Inception all along
ContinentTurtle Predictive programming is about incepting & compounding an idea into reality. It’s incredibly interesting. Look into it 👁
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That wouldn't be too hard, as it was only really mentioned in the first movie, correct? And then, only for a moment. Easy enough to chalk it up to purposeful misinformation by the machines, perhaps to downplay the importance of Humanity to them. Maybe, the processing power of Humanity is what powers the Source.
lol that would actually make more sense than how it stands now, this whole battery thing would mean, that the robots can create enough nutrition to sustain humans AND have them produce enough of a surplus of energy to grow their own food. its a perpetuum mobile and i find it dumb
The Animatrix is so underrated, its one of the best movies ever made (The Matrix is however the actual best movie ever made)
A point missed in this video:
ideologies and control systems can be memetic, and from that they can need or want to spread and reproduce like viruses. A successful virus has mechanisms that cause it's host to spread it more and keep it's host alive and functioning longer while infected. From that, the most successful memetic systems allow us to still function in life while remaining stuck in said memetics, and are easier to buy into, and reward or encourage spreading them to others.
Why do you think things like consumerism and woke culture have taken off so well?
The deeper problem - the point I want to get to - is memetics is a part of human nature. When you get a large population of individuals in a dense enough space, each with limited cognition of personal relationships, and especially with limited resources (or the perception of such) you need some form of management to keep things functioning, to prevent any "us and them" mentality causing chaos or harm (assuming everyone in the population is still considered part of "them"). Memetic tools allow us to adapt faster than genetic tools usually would. To say another way, agreeing to a few rules is not enough, we need social and cultural cohesion, and memetic tools to develop this.
The cost of this cohesion, is that some societal control is in place - I'm not "free" to do anything I want because of laws, but also because of memetics (I develop the meme that I don't want to break these laws anyway because it is not moral, and I feel a letter person because of it). You will always be living under some control. Even if you formed a subculture or a gang and ignored the broader social laws and norms, you are still controlled - by the rules and laws of the subculture.
The whole red pill, consumerism etc ideological thing, these are systems that take advantage of memetic tools in our head, hijack them to their own ends. It's part of why social media has grown so well (remember what I said relating social cohesion and memetic tools).
If you want to take something away: there is always some system of control you are in. However, you can learn what systems you exist in and choose if you will partake. Even when it seems unavoidable, like with consumerism, you can still exercise choice to not be involved, or how much to be involved. It may require some counselling to get over retail therapy or social media fomo but it's possible.
Was I going somewhere with this? Or was it just another meme?
To clear the air, yes its all a meme. But the idea of memes are necessary. Your whole point basically points to the idea of the three governing elements that shape a human life...Bias, perspective, and responsibility. The latter being the most important. Without any one of those three, life isn't.
In a roundabout and possibly convoluted way I think this touched on not just a problem with our current climate but also a solution. Which I think is legitimately something I would hope would spread in itself
@@Greyman-bb6er which is?
It all comes down to: is there free will or is every action result of previous state and therefore preset? I guess it's like with living in a simulation, if it looks and feels real, if we think we are choosing freely, it should be good enough to enjoy life.
Little late but i really like this take. The solution is quite laid out as well, which is to understand the system of control we belong under, and the freedom will then come from whether or not I choose to partake in it. However, in an Inception-like irony, that ideology is most likely a system of control itself. One can go through layers of this to ultimately reach a point where no one has the answer to: the meaning of life. What is the meaning of life but a form of responsibility (as pointed out by my personal favourite Viktor Frankl), and responsibility is a form of control, although not from the outside. At this point, then the idea of trying to understand this system of control break down completely, as there is no way for one to understand the true meaning of existence, because nothing can be proven or disproven. So partaking in the system of control where we bless ourselves with the illusion that we have the freedom to choose the aspects of a variety of systems of control we currently reside in, how do we exactly approach this topic of meaning of life? Or did I get this one wrong, and that the meaning of life is actually a level lower than the ultimate system of control: the freedom to choose which aspects to partake and which aspects to reject?
There's a lot to be said about the matrix trilogy, and Jared, i thought your argument is quite compelling ...
I, on the other hand, have a different view that i been thumbling around in my head.
I think the Matrix is actually about the nature of Duality, in which we see many sides of this duality revealed through the eyes of the Neo, Agent Smith, Zion and ultimately, the machines.
Let's go with some basics that we all know: So, Neo is the creation of a machince design to introduce the element of chaos and randomness into this elaborate mathematical equation. Agent Smith is the creation of a system that the machine operates in order to restore order amidst controled chaos ... or what the machines operated data assumes to be chaos. Given that the machine itself has two complety diferent models that make a base line for everthing, the results are clearly binary, either you are in order or you are chaos.
In the vision of the Arquitect, the rational part of the Matrix, the base model for order, every thing must fit into only one model, his model. However, and just like Agent Smith said, the first Matrix was a failure, because, they didn't took in account that we inheretly come with dualistic views. In order to understand one thing, we have to experience the other side of it, the merovigian said it: we know cause, because, we perceive the effect. Once that data was accounted, a new element is created, The Oracle.
the emotional side of the Matrix, the Mother of the Matrix, the random creator.
And this was the creation of the system trying to correct itself.
The Base model is now a Dual Base Model. one for Chaos, one for Order.
The batlle between Agent Smith and Neo at the end of Revolutions, is one of duality.
The Oracle states that Smith is the direct consequence and effect of Neo.
When Neo is created, Agent Smith is created also.
When one realizes the duality of the system, it becomes and transforms itself in order.
So, when Neo realizes that to beat Smith, he has to ultimately realize that in Smith there
is also part of him, he now understands the nature of his duality, that he is at the same time, Order and Chaos. When he does it, the effect is that the equation is now reversed.
He becomes Order and Smith becomes Chaos, annuling the result of the equation.
That's why Smith is destroyed in the end. Is the result of the ultimate equation: 1=1=2=0
One=order, One=Chaos, 2= duality between Chaos and order, which in the end is nothing.
There are a lot of dualistic perspectives, The duality of the Machine-Human relationship,
the duality of perceived reality, Reality-Illusion, the duality of Cause-Effect, the duality of
Chaos-Order, the duality of perception-realization.
This trilogy has so much to extract that, even though Reloaded and Revolutions are mere spectacles of what they should been, they still bring us something we can enjoy and think about.
Oh boy, this is perfect. Almost a Jungian view of it.
Interesting to note that Neo moves towards freedom and the ability to reshape reality through three major character arcs that serve as the climaxes of each film.
First film: The choice of belief.
Second film: The choice of uncompromising love.
Third film: The choice of self sacrifice.
Sounds like some other character arc I’ve read somewhere...
Curiously enough enlightenment is considered the transcendance of the nature of duality and polarity
You can also interpret Neo letting Smith kill him as a metaphor for overcoming death, with Smith being death. The Oracle explains to Neo that Smith is his opposite and given that they cancel each other out, they could probably go on fighting forever. This is when Neo understands that the only way to beat death is to accept it, to stop fighting it and surrender.
My interpretation was one of duality also. The architect and the oracle are clearly meant to represent yin and yang, the oracle being yin and the architect being yang, this is even more obvious as the architect is male and the oracle is female they even chose to make the architect a white man with white hair and beard, and the oracle a black woman with black hair, I don't think that was by accident, and as you pointed out there are more examples within the film.
"Raging against the machine is exactly what the machine wants." True here, but truer in _Snowpiercer._
That’s lowkey a good movie! (Snowpiercer)
Is it just me or is anyone else getting double the unskippable ads lately?
*cough* vanced *cough*
No ads for me at all
i have adblock,,, is the matrix going to punish me for it? well, probably theres consequences,,, id like youtube red if you could keep the videos forever and watch offline,,, the same people that made adblock are the same people from google,,,,as you know, big corp is actually a communist government disguuised as multi brand etc
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Neo having abilities outside of the Matrix makes sense when you consider that he might still be in the Matrix
Its because of his cybernetics.
Kei Kurono So Neo discovered the WiFi password
@@brotherofAnubus Yup.
He sees yellow code while in this level of the matrix, seraph the wingless is the only other program with yellow code..could seraph originally be from this level and he's been exiled to the deep matrix or forced to live there to protect the oracle. He's in par with neos physical abilities, maybe because he's a previous version of the anomaly program, similar to how sati appears to be a future replacement of the oracle
Devices are listening . When I speak spanish in the presence of my phone I will start to get youtube adds in Spanish. I asked my friends if they have ever gotten a yt add in Spanish they all said no. None of them speak Spanish
The algorithms predicted that you would eventually speak Spanish in front of your devices
@@lukasfinn6042 paradox
I've had ads for very specific products appear in my FB feed multiple times right after I spoke to someone (in person, not on the phone) about that thing for a while. Highly specific, like certain types of lighting, or professional equipment. Way too specific to be a coincidence.
We never leave the cave. The shadows just get a little bit more defined and then we think "Aha! Now I see the truth."
I ? or I AM
One thing's for sure what's real about this world is miniscule with big consequences.
Now this is why I keep watching Wisecrack! This is a great deep dive into the matrix trilogy's themes and philosophy. I haven't seen any other videos explain it so well. Kudos to everyone who worked on this video!
What are you talking about, he got it totally wrong. Neo never left the Matrix, Zion is part of the Matrix. That's why neo still has powers in the "real world". Zion is an illusion of freedom. THAT is the point.
Personally, I love Reloaded. I still have problems with Revolutions however
Dan Licata I enjoy all three Matrix films even though I know Reloaded and Revolutions are flawed
Yea I enjoy revolutions but that’s the one where the flaws become harder for me to defend
Watched Reloaded on the cinema twice, a thing I very rarely did. It´s a fantastic action movie.
Thank you. Maybe not the best presentationally, but conceptually still pretty great.
We like reload for the epic action scenes rest of the movie is garbage
I just watched this at a friends house last night. I love talking about this movie with friends. There’s so much to explore and talk about.
For me, what distinguishes a philosopher, is that you look for questions instead of answers.
I use to think Neo being able to see the machines after going blind was him being able to sense all the life energy the machines were taking from humans.
Lizerdspherex The Wachowski’s mother was a Shaman. Psychedelics like DMT LSD Mushrooms 🍄 had a massive influence on The Matrix
Lizerdspherex the machines are pure evil
Are humans evil for killing to eat?
Traditionally humans only ever killed what was needed to live, as all other carnivorous and omnivorous creatures in nature do. The outsourcing of this to farms and other people to do this killing has completely disconnected us from our natural heritage and allowed for us to no longer bear the burden of killing another creature to survive.
Is killing worse than enslaving?
To be clear, Neo doesn't have "powers" in the real world. He just has the ability to feel and affect machines because his digital input remained connected to the machine world after visiting the Architect (and going rogue) at the end of the second movie. That explanation is gravely missing from the movies though. But that's the reason.
@CK Lim Doesn't that also imply that the machines don't need humans for energy and thus make the whole premise pointless?
@CK Lim Unfortunately that's a lot of assumptions that invalidates most plot points of the movies and the Second Renaissance actual origin story :S
There’s a third part to the allegory of the cave that you left out.
When he tried to teach the remaining captives, they killed him. Were they too comfortable in their current situation? Did they know what he didn’t, and prefer their controlled system over his?
Whenever we thing we’ve left the frying pan, we’ve only found ourselves in another.
Zion is literally a cave.
James A. Franklin This is an important point
Yep. Just like now.
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The Architect's room being revealed was a favorite of mine, because I always found that shot of the wall of screens in the first film the biggest question mark in the movie. It made me very curious as to why someone would be directly observing Neo's interrogation... 🤔
wait a minute were dusters ever REALLY out of style?
Hahaha you're killing me
Always ONE in every comment section...
The problem with dusters it that they are basically too stylish to be worn. If you're in the Matrix or Once Upon a Time in the West, you look like a badass. If you wear one in the real world, you look like someone desperately trying to look like a badass.
twan jon I think Columbine kinda ruined them
@@466chalk Unless you're riding long distances on horseback or something similarly dusty and exposed to the elements.
marx's perspective is very interesting. Reality is based on the needs of the humans
Aiden Matano It already explains why we can’t unplug at 6:42 we have to go through Life like this like it’s an inescapable and psychologically/internally and insufferable eternal hell. The answer would be that their are pure and absolute evil, sadistic, and conscious forces and people in control and in power who don’t deserve it(6:42) who fuck up the lives of good people who deserve better for their sadistic pleasure and entertainment and control our lives, events around us, our thoughts, emotions, and actions to make us suffer for no reason. we live in the Matrix and that live is an insufferable and inescapable hell that is being controlled by evil forces outside the universe that are secretly , unknowingly, and psychologically tormenting and torture us for no reason and do it in really well and hidden ways and affect the external factors around us that makes us repeat our wrong habits and the unnecessarily bad things that repeatedly happen in our lives that are not in our control or responsibility and speed up time so uncomfortably fast to make us miss the moment and feel forever trapped and miserable. Here are proofs:
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We live in a delusional society that will deteriorate, check these memes out and tell me I’m wrong:
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People hide under their own religious and societal biases and are narrow minded and completely ignore and shy away from the opposing side. And when the opposing side had a point people tend to get hostile. And they don’t trust or immediately shut off if it automatically comes from Social Media and Internet(What humanity thrives off now days) And people make fun of a theme or message if it comes from a movie or the internet. And did you even view the memes? It’s like Plato’s Allegory of The Cave, look here for quick explanation th-cam.com/video/1RWOpQXTltA/w-d-xo.html We will never Escape the Matrix and the pure evil conscious machines that are controlling us want us to suffer and waste our precious free time for the sake of it. It is completely out of our control and we can’t do anything about it while the evil machines are in power and don’t deserve it and are extremely wicked and prosper. I’m going to make an Inglorious Basterds type of revenge film with the machine overloads and the architect(6:42) as the villains
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
Didn't Marx have a hand in dismantling Russia and installed communism that killed over 30 million people?
TheDragonSsJ did you watch the whole video? You’ll understand why
TheDragonSsJ because the way life has treated and scarred me and has made me feel psychologically trapped and hopeless
I can taste the essence of shattering the grand illusion.
The grand illusion is that there is not illusion, only human ignorance.
@@obsidianjane2267 Ignorance that is intentional implanted secondary to indoctrination.
@@obsidianjane2267 Some choose amathia. Many of us fight against it.
"Power is everywhere, Not because it embraces everything but because it comes from everywhere. Where there is Power there is resistance, But that resistance is never in a position of exteriority to Power" Michel Foucault.
i think the wisecrack hit the nail on the head for mentioning that there are multiple level of controls breaking out of the control requires recognizing those chains first.
Please do something about "Sorry to bother you".
@Shirley Timple thank you.
They've done a podcast about it, but still would be cool if someone at Wisecrack or someone invited wrote a video about it.
Regardless of the intention of the Movies. I'd always interpreted it like this:
TL:DR The Machines were created to optimize the sustainability of human existence and preserve human society.
The physical needs of humans are met with incredible efficiency and the minds are satisfied and mollified with nested illusions.
The Machines need a few things; energy, building material, processing power and whatever tertiary objective gets them closer to the ultimate optimization of their fitness function.
Somehow, humans provide a solution for at least one of these.
So, the Machines constructed the Matrix, a satisfying illusion just detailed enough to trick the minds of the majority of humans.
Minds that rejected the first illusion could then be caught in the next illusion Zion, mollifying with the ideal of "freedom".
With fewer minds and a limited area Zion could be simulated with much higher detail.
Giving the perception of reality, by comparison to the Matrix.
But there is a bug in Neo's code of "The One", affecting his perception of the Machines in the Zion illusion.
Thus Neo sees through the illusion of Zion, but ultimately compromises with the Machines, sacrificing himself for a kinder less efficient Matrix.
Now back to the needs of the Machines, how could a human provide a solution?
Humans make for poor energy sources/storage or building material. Maybe they could have used other animals, like the electric eel?
It could be processing power, but so much of a humans potential is wrapped up in experiencing the Matrix.
Perhaps it could be an optimization of the sustainability of human existence? Preservation through a terrifying minimization of waste and pollution to the extreme.
Or the twisted interpretation of a rule set meant to protect humans from AI, as in iRobot.
Just to attempt to fill in a couple gaps in your interpretation, the machines didn't want to use humans as a power source. They wanted to co-exist along side humans with their own identity and even formed they own nation and tried to integrate with human society, but they were so efficient that their economy became the most dominant in the world.
So, humans attempted to cut them off from their free and near infinite energy supply by blocking out the sun. The machines were then forced to find an alternate solution and found that through a form of fusion they were able to make sustainable power through our metabolic system by feeding us to ourselves. They also had an entire initial crop of roughly 8 billion people to start with, and, although they don't discuss it in the films, it can be assumed that the machines would still continue to use other methods of power generation via fission and other more crude forms.
As for the matrix...the iteration we see in the film is the most functional and efficient version the machines had come up with. Almost perfectly balancing pleasure and suffering to keep the human mind in it's most agreeable state, thus minimizing the resources needed to keep the human batteries from burning out to quickly or wanting to unplug. With the exception of the "one" anomaly that was a constantly manifesting result of a certain small percentage of human minds never fully accepting the matrix, no matter how finely tuned it became.
I'm still wondering why the agents tried to kill Neo to begin with, if he is an anomaly that is expected, and needed, to reboot the system. The only explanation seems to be that the agents are left out of the loop, and are used as pawns to chase Neo in order to awaken his abilities, which in turn would make people follow him because they view him as a saviour (because one has to assume that the machines know the power that religion has over people.) But, had Smith shot Neo without Trinity being there, would he still have woken up? And what if Neo had actually been killed in the real world?
There is no "real world"; both "sides" of the matrix are a result of the question "red pill or blue pill?". If you choose the red pill you choose to view the current reality as "wrong", like the people who call others "sheeple", and the blue pill is for those who like the current reality. Whether you choose to rail against the system or not does not change the fact that the system exists and you cannot escape it because you are a part of it.
As for why Neo is pursued, The Architect and The Oracle are not enemies; they exist to keep the system intact, the architect keeps the world of the blue pill under control, and the oracle keeps the world of the red pill under control. The Architect gives people the exact answer for their questions, and is viewed as either boring or that a system under that amount of control has to be evil. As a result of the Architect not being able to accurately predict (and therefore control) humans, The Oracle was created. The Oracle uses misdirection and riddles combined with a "complete" understanding of human emotion to exert control via careful social manipulation. One uses raw power/facts, the other is more insidious. Both exist to perpetuate the system, and only when Neo understands that he has not escaped the system, and that it cannot be escaped, does he instead try to make peace.
Nobody can escape the system, not even the oracle and the architect; if the system were to collapse, it would just be reset a 6th time. Neo recognizes this and instead of fighting for the ideals of the "red pill", he instead fights for higher ideals; to prevent the "end" of the world and actually allow the system to change.
You're thinking of "The one" as a person who must exist and gain ultimate power in order for the Matrix to continue functioning. No, "The one" is an idea, a myth. The systemic anomaly that leads to catastrophic Matrix failure is choice, free will - ostensibly if humans are not given free will they reject the simulation entirely, but if they are given free will then most humans will accept the simulation as reality. But not all, some will still reject the simulation. "The one" is a myth used to misdirect the attention of those who do not accept the simulation. It's the "inceptioned" system of control: the myth of "The one" directs all of your hope and attention in a direction that the machines can still control even while you think you're free. That myth taking human form in the shape of Neo or other previous "Ones" is just how the machines ensure they maintain control over the myth.
@@pufthemajicdragon I do find that an interesting concept, and while I don't disagree that it's possible it's another system of control, I don't recall any evidence that "the one" was used to describe any character other than Neo. That said, if you try to imagine the history of the fiction it wouldn't be surprising to imagine characters appealing themselves and others to their own or others' ideals by attributing said ideals to "the one", not unlike how many monotheistic believers seem to have contradictory images of God that coincidentally align with their own beliefs.
S1m0ne how absolutely applicable to our reality as well.
@@psylock524 You haven't answered my question.
Jokes aside, in the context of the movie(s), it's not a matter of liking one "reality" over the other. As I see it, there's one world that occupies no physical space and that takes place entirely in the mind - The Matrix - and another that is real in the sense that we know it - The Real World. And we could talk at length about what The Architect and The Oracle may represent, what their function is etc, but saying that they're not enemies does not explain why the agents try to kill Neo if he is needed to reboot the system, which the movies clearly say.
So at the end of the first movie, if Trinity had not been there, would he still have woken up somehow? Or what if Cypher had actually killed Neo on the Neb? Would the machines simply have gotten another carrier for the code? Can the agents actually kill Neo, or are they, as I said, used as pawns to trigger Neos abilities?
Thanks for your reply. :D
That Powerade commercial is the most honest advertising I've ever seen.
I'll be honest. Halfway through it slowly becomes disconnected.
"Neo now has powers outside the matrix... somehow"
MatPat on his FilmTheory channel has a video _The Matrix Has No Escape_ wherein he argues the supposition that at no point in any of the films was anyone ever out of a layer of the matrix.
I think this is what Baudrillard talks about, that there are layers upon layers of reality, each merging into each other and none telling the entire truth.
Matpat is also a moron who makes videos on arbitrary nonsense
IDK who matpat is but it's correct that Neo never left the Matrix and this is obviously why he still has powers in the "real world". Zion is there to give humans the illusion of freedom and choice. The architect practically explains as much when he talks about how neo is there to help stabilize the system.
@skOsH - That logic in your first remark doesn't stand up though. You assume that the "real world" layer would be a world or a universe essentially similar to what we know. Of course, that's how the Matrix movies appear to present things, and as a movie that's maybe inevitable, but if we're genuinely going to consider the possibilities, how I see it, nothing really can be assumed about the nature of a reality outside of our own.
I mean, to be extreme about that, if there were to be a world outside of our own, I guess we kind-of have to take our own consciousness as a given, in order for these kinds of ideas to make any sense. Maybe too, some form of sensory perceptions that we can relate to, i.e sight/sound/touch/smell/taste, in some recognisable way. That's about it, for what we can assume. Even then, who knows, maybe we could find we have a super-set of our consciousness and senses compared to what we think we know, or our senses are somehow different in the world outside. What we would discover such a world to be, what we would perceive, is hard or impossible to even try to imagine.
But in the face of such possibilities, any argument that assumes the outside "real" world to work in an identical manner to our own falls flat on its face. Somehow this outside world, if it were to exist, would be immersing us in the world we know, but an explanation of how it does so would have to be in terms of that world's reality, and not in terms of the reality that we know. The Matrix uses the machine-world as its explanation, including the backstory in The Animatrix, and that's fine, but if we leave the Matrix story aside for a moment and suppose that right now we are living inside a Matrix-like world, there is no reason to suppose the real-world reality outside is running simulations on anything we would remotely recognise as a computer system. It could work some other way entirely. There is no reason to suppose such an outside-reality even obeys recognisable laws of physics. The sky, the ground, the sea, the air, our planet and the concept of a planet, outer space, solid objects, other people, other life... absolutely none of that can be taken for granted in a reality outside the one we know. In the first movie, Morpheus spoke of everything we sense being just electrical signals interpreted by our brain. That explanation is helpful in understanding the nature of our own reality, but even that explanation assumes that "brain" and "electrical signals" have any directly equivalent meaning in a reality outside.
It may well be impossible to make a movie that can venture successfully into these kinds of ideas. The real world presented in the Matrix is adequately plausible for the purposes of the movies; it seemingly resembles the reality we know, in blue tones rather than green, but even then, if you followed the gist of what I'm saying, we still don't need to assume The Matrix's real world follows exactly all the same rules as the Matrix virtual world. Most of those plugged into the Matrix are never supposed to see the outside world, so wouldn't know anything was different. If the real-world reality allows Neo to form a conscious link with the machines, maybe that's actually fine, since it would be happening on that world's own terms. And if humans really do generate rather than consume power in the real-world's reality, likewise, I guess maybe that's fine too.
I realise of course that the Wisecrack video was looking more at the metaphorical aspects of the Matrix movies, and there is so much in those movies, but the first Matrix movie explored the virtual world/real world relationship in a greatly compelling way, and I always found it a shame that having set this scene so beautifully well, it then almost entirely ignored it in the second and third movies.
Mat is wrong on a few levels. One of them is, if Neo has died, then that is why he is in his idea of an afterlife, which is basically a matrix he can control. A lot of computer programmers are obsessed with matrices which they use to guide themselves to new discoveries, etc. So if he killed himself in a mass suicide, then it would explain why everyone incarnated with him and why some people incarnated as machines while others did not.
12:35 what makes you so sure that they aren't always listening? I'd like to see some kind of citation for that being proven "myth"
ya that seemed way too absolute and certain... almost... suspiciously certain...
well it is not a myth if you wanna check if it is just talk about something over phone about something absurd that you wouldnt normally talk about and watch the ads
I say it's probably a mix of both
@Gonçalo Amaro You leave you mic open In order to be "serviced"...how's that for a catchphrase.
If your mic catches flies don't forget to zip up.!!!
Never thought I'd see someone linking these movies with Marx, but here we are.
Edit: I worded this wrong. I don't disagree, it just never really occurred to me.
The film literally name drops a Marxist (Baudrillard).
Matrix it's all about the marxist concept of class counscioness, once you have it, you'll see beyond the capitalism lies.
Neo literally hates his corporate job and wants to "escape" and goes and joins hippies in a rave. It's a pretty anti-capitalist movie
Revolutions reminded me of Marx too. Specifically the Marx brothers film Go West which spends a lot of time on the roof of a moving train. Go west was far more entertaining as well.
Boutta go dumb on you... Ma(t)r(i)x ....
"the moment we think ourselves free from ideology is likely when we are the most fully immersed in it"
I'm convinced that ' real world' portrayed in the Matrix is still another layer in the Matrix thus explains the anomalies in Neo's ' powers' in the real world.
Could it not be a higher mental or spiritual ability? psychokinesis? maybe Neo is waking up to the greater reality that all is an illusion, and that all is one.
@@Eonnn84 Nah man, he probably just has wi-fi. If the machines made him "The One" on purpose, we can reasonably assume his implants may be differnet from most other humans, which could include a wireless connection.
Of course it is.
@@Eonnn84 I think the human batteries idea are dumb so telekinesis fits right into that I guess.
@@Phoenixflame87 Maybe but I guess 5G or maybe even 6G if they solved that Huawei privacy issue in the future. /sarcasm
Honestly I liked The whole Matrix Trilogy.
I know why Neo saw Gold code everywhere in the machine City.
Neo has 20G wifi in his spinal implants.
Technically we see with our brbrains our eyes just catch the light our brains interpret the signals.
Neo's implants catch the Machine signals and code. And Both his Brain and Implants interpret those Signals.
Neuralink, huh?
@@pavelb.3733 Yep.
I'm sure the Wachowski's had something of that Nature in mind.
No dude it's because neo never left the matrix. Zio is part of the matrix. Zion is the illusion of freedom needed to keep the matrix stable.
@@RealComp5 How exactly it makes it stable?
@@pavelb.3733 It gives the illusion of choice.
Blue pill: Living with TH-cam
Red pill: Living without TH-cam
Marcoconut better yet
Red pill: no social media except TH-cam
Blue pill: all social media except TH-cam
mind fornication true
Haha funny but false.
- Written on TH-cam -
LOL!!! Yea, you might go outside with the red!
Everyone wants to be Neo, we're all Cyphers at heart.
"Ignorance is bliss."
Hell yeah. Give me that tender, juicy steak.
@@johnivanoplimo5172 implying that
Knowledge is a curse
I'm guessing many of us aren't heroic because we're lazy. :3
@@Arovna Knowing makes acting difficult.
That's what the machines want you to think
The entire Matrix trilogy was awesome.
Love the no ads episode when talking about oppression
If we unplugged, we would have never seen this fantastic video.
Deep, nice.
Not understanding “the gold shit” isn’t the same as it not making sense.
it could be
True. Of course, people '"Not understanding “the gold shit”' could also just be bad storytelling.
Please enlighten us.
Revolutions is worth it for that one scene where the kid is screaming about the war being over.
It's very biblical
Reminds of Slavoj Zizek - "It’s not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament when we are within ideology is that when we think that we escape it into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology."
Fear is the illusion
Sati in the old language means awareness and loosely Mindfulness. The Indian girls at the beginning of Matrix revolutions was also named Sati.
In the wise words of Michal Malice, “Take one red pill at a time, not the whole bottle.”
Sounds like cult strategy if I ever heard it.
Ugh, can’t sleep, let’s watch some TH-cam until I feel tired.........
12:30 unplugging may be best thing for us but the systems of surveillance are already omnipresent
I feel like Cypher. "I should have taken the blue pill."
While watching this I got an ad that declared "We are being censored. Hi, I am 'so-and-so' from 'who cares' News..."
MiiNameIsJohn That was probably Epoch Times right? They’re a fascist Chinese death cult that find their message doesn’t travel too far in China so they’ve switched to blasting the fascist shit hose in America. Fun fact: the Falun Gong (the fascist cult that runs that “newspaper”) is the #2 source of pro-Trump advertisements in the US following the Trump campaign itself. So much for Russian interference right?
@@comradetrashpanda8777 really? Google Falun Gong and you get "Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is a Chinese religious practice that combines meditation and qigong exercises with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance."
They are outlawed in China and have been treated horrendously by the CCP, wtf are you talking about? I guess the swastika in the picture throws you off (dont you know what the swastika was before the nazis hijacked it?).
self-improvement through the study of teachings, and gentle exercises and meditation. Now means fascist pigs...oh man
@@habsfan8768 Then why do the Falun Gong funnel millions to far-right fascist organizations in Europe and the US? You do know Qi Gong isn't real right? It's a gift dude. I'm no CCP fan boy but just because someone bad is opposed to someone bad it doesn't make them good. Falun Gong is a gift and a death cult. I don't call them fascist because of a symbol. I call them fascists because they financially support FASCISM. Do more research than Wikipedia
Rory Saurus Hey, wait, aren’t they the same people that do Shen Yun?
Great video, it gives a lot of perspectives. It makes a great point, we are always within some cultural context. Yet not sure if it's by design, but these kind of analyses leave out the notion of being able to look beyond culture, such as in the shamanic state. It has long since been the function of shamans to walk outside of the cultural context, and they do this through boundary-dissolving experiences. Well the trilogy is rife with metaphors of dissolving boundaries, such as Neo taking the red pill and going on "a trip", or Neo shedding his human sight for something more encompassing of reality. Perhaps seeing the golden stuff was indeed Neo looking into the ultimate reality of the universe expressing itself, and seeing that the whole war, and humanity, and machines, and good, and evil-- that none of it is real, that all of it is merely an expression of the "thing" at the center of it all. And all we must do is chill and take our place in that expression, which may sound like giving up but not when you can see beyond your own life, or the life of your loved ones, or even the life your species. In Revolutions, this is what Neo does, he takes his place as the balancer of the equation, he ends the war, he becomes a moral exemplar for the people AND the machines... just like a shaman.
I can lucid dream every night, I started at age 20 so any one can do this. I started memorizing how I felt during the dream . Until eventually this memory made me realize I was sleeping and called me to awakening in the dream.
I can focus my awareness till after I am awake. To feel my mind shift like that or vise versa in a awake state to the imagination side. This shifting feeling is trippy yo, the masculine side my body felt dense structured. The feminine side felt free, like liking go of concepts and stirred the imagination. A free moment for the spirit to shift basically and to connect to another part of us.
I am guy lol I am still me I think even better. Feminine energy rocks, it helps me relax and achieve Zen easier. It lets me let go of things, like which might anger me or other bad embodied egos. The masculine is still their, just less doubtful and dense and limited and more free spirited and light . When I channel focus my awareness on this feminine feeling in a awoken state. Which feels the same as lucid dreaming or altered states, I see the shift I feel it. My imagination becomes stronger in the present moment.
Unique lucid dream method. Very cool.
@@KingSlobber I got some cool spiritual anime on my TH-cam now. 💚⬆️☯️🌍
Exposing the ‘control’ makes it more efficient and undetected thus questioning the very thought of it.
Can't wait to see your review on M:Ressurections.
Many things said here were deeply connected to the movie.
What an amazing aspect you touched upon 👍 i love the matrix! All three of movies were amazing. Ever time I rewatched the trilogy i kept seeing more about it, the relationship between mr smith and neo is particularly amazing aspect of the movie. Mr smith was such a great character as well. He was essential to neos success. Amazing villain.
I was alway under the impression that Zion was just another level of the Matrix, and by taking the red pill you rejected the base level of the Matrix for the 99% and were moved to a different server in the Matrix. Argo still in the machine just in another illusion. Hence why Neo still has his powers, because he and everyone else that took the red pill were still in the Matrix, just under a different illusion. This makes sense in the 3rd film when you think about it because when Neo looses his sight he's able to see the world as it: 0s and 1s, or rather computer code, meaning he never left and is finally able to see through the illusions of the Matrix.
I’m here to say the first Matrix is one of the best films ever made and Reloaded gets too much hate.
Jordan Johnson I’m going to make an Inglorious Basterds type of movie and have the machines and the guy at 6:40 as the villains
And no matter how you feel about Revelations, I can't just watch the first two and *not* finish the trilogy.
Chris Scott Facts!!
You will be free when you collapse duality by returning to the absolute state, Which is your natural state that is veiled by the ego/dualistic mind through ignorance, concepts and beliefs. Destroying the ego , unveils the true self which sees the illusion but is detached from it. You then remain as the conscious observer rather than being in the system. By being the true self, it is source energy, this is when you realise that you are the creator of your reality and can make the system work for you through the law of attraction.
You become what you fight
The overall craziness of the Path of Neo gives me high hopes for an absolute insane film
mrpalaces I’m going to make an Inglorious Basterds type of movie and have the machines and the guy at 6:40 as the villains
This is pretty interesting. Just like when you finally wake up from the illusion of the "left" vs the "right", is when you realize that it was intentional by a higher form of authority.
It's tricky once you leave that spell because you either end up really narcissistic and living in despair. Or you could hone your skills at undoing the spells cast from MSM and pick up home steading or even starting a family.
I have been saying this for a very long time. Thank you someone else with a clue, 20 years ago even today same BS still half the people call it conspiracy theories, its even more sad seeing everyone claiming (woke) while still sticking to left or the right.... They're clueless
yep, the things that the thinkers from antique times already knew still work better than ever: "divide et impera" to keep the masses from reuniting for a cause, "panem et circences" to keep them distracted and content
It would appear that "freedom," like "perfection," is just a mental construct, of no real meaning. There are only varying degrees of enslavement, some more pleasant than others. Perhaps even in the Afterlife...
Herman Melville's _Moby Dick_: "Who ain't a slave?"
Anyone else notice the reboot today......I noticed around 10-11 am
these videos are so well done and so thoughtful
Re: The Orange Code.
I always just read this as the idea consistent with the premise of an avatar or messianic figure in lots of media: A merging of the divine with the human and acting as a bridge between the immanent and transcendent. The Architect mentions that "The One" itself is a program of the Matrix or at least a direct product. However, Neo isn't a program, he's human. The implication is that he was a product of the matrix given a human form like a particular famous nazarene or an equally (in)famous sith lord. To double down on the premise, a Smith-virus infiltrates Bane's body in the same film through the jack in his head and Neo with his "divine" sight is able to see Smith's form. In the matrix's case, it's the blending of machine and man through which man and machine are reconciled.
Not to mention there is all the other on-the-nose christ metaphor stuff which doubles down on it. It's a labored metaphor for certain with a lot of inconsistency and creates a very muddled definition of "divinity". But I didn't think it was hard to understand.
Unless the inconsistency is what you meant.
12:35 That's sadly wrong, got proven many times and can even be tested really easy with your own smartphone. (Or I am late to the party and the fact comes after the myth)
Talking about prince of Egypt with my mom. Emmediately after, I open the TH-cam app and first two things in the recommendations are clips from prince of egypt. Wtf is this, it could not have been predicted from past online activities, because I hadn't looked for that movie in years.
“We are like the dreamer who dreams, and then lives inside of the dream. But who is the dreamer?” -Monica Belucci
Persephone is deep!
i am. it's not that hard. if i stop, the dream doesn't exist.
If only the puzzle were that simple. Again we are LIKE the dreamer, meaning we are not the actual dreamer in question. So who is the dreamer?
@@Bassistking the dreamer can never know himself ... It just is, we just are :)
this is such a skin deep analysis, you guys should watch the one from Mark Passio's Matrix decoding.
I’ve genuinely come to terms with the fact that there’s a solid chance we are living in a simulation right now. I’m not trolling. I’m a masters of law degree holder and for the past 4 years I have been researching certain astrophysicists and a handful have all stated the solidity of the chance of our known universe being encompassed by a simulation for a higher being. I believe this.
...waaaait a minute! That is something an Agent would say!!!
To my mind, the only way to explain Neo's powers, is by the existence of the 3rd level of the Matrix. Neo has powers because he never went to the real world.
Exactly...I was laughed at for thinking that...as soon as he stopped those sentinels...I said there is another layer to the Matrix or many. How can you tell if you are actually free or not? All your life you have been in the Matrix, there is no reference to what real actually is. You and I, yes we MIGHT be able to tell. Then Smith entering into a biological being?
When me and my friends walked out of the 2nd film, we were insistent that there was a matrix within a matrix, that Zion was simply another simulation. Nothing in the 3rd proves it one way or another, but it feel like headcanon now.
I have always been a little surprised that most people don't see it this way. There is no rational explanation for how he can see computer code in the "real" world or influence the machines. Its not possible. I really do believe the "real" world was just another level of the Matrix. Both Neo and Trinity are in the next movie and people cant figure out how when they are both dead. Its possible if they never left the Matrix.
@@galahadkoa1 this is correct. that's what the second spoon represents.
There nonsense. He had powers because he is a human machine, that can interface with the robots wirelessly. His brainwaves hack the robots and make them explode. It's obvious as shit. Nowhere in the series is it ever suggested that there are multiple levels of the matrix
I've always wondered what would happen if neo didn't take neither pill.
I just realised when neo is blinded in the "real world", more than likely matrix level 2, he can see yellow code opposed to green within the matrix. Seraph is the only other time we see this yellow code, could he originally be from this level of matrix?
Here is my current interpretation that most makes sense. The way to truly rebel against consumerism/machine/system is through love. This is what Neo. Chooses at the end of the second movie. This is what Sati and her parents represent. Counterintuitively this is the true rebellion. In real world, it is also what frees us from consumerism as opposed to many other ideologies (Zizek talks about it a lot. I’m simplifying here). It is what can cause a deep change in us in contrast to change contained in shackles of ideology (like just disconnecting from the matrix, which changes nothing). You can see similar themes in Matrix 4. This also explains third film ending. Instead of fighting determinism, Neo realises that by fighting with smith he just continues the cycle. Counterintuitively: through lack of resistance and love towards humanity (like a Jesus figure) he successfully defeats the system. The message of Matrix for me is „True love is the real rebellion”
Trinity:
"Neo, I'm not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love and that that man... the man that I loved would be The One. So you see, you can't be dead. You can't be... because I love you. You hear me? I love you."
Trinity:
"Now get up!"
Man. Now I gotta rewatch these
One possible explanation (see film theory's video) Neo has powers in the real world is because the world of the red pill is actually just another realm/dimension of the matrix. The machines never permit any human to really leave the matrix, but they do have separate more sophisticated tiers of reality for the human consciousness that desire/require more free will and self actualization (beyond what the base tier of the matrix can provide) in order to properly constrain them.
Why we can't unplug? Cause were stuck in this world.
The iron in your blood are the bars in front of your soul.
When i find things like this that i want to promote their exposure, i never do so digitally, has to be word of mouth or printed word. Leaving comments like this is my compromise.
Just stop associating these movies with real life. Then more people will respect you.
Everyone always questions Neo's abilities outside of the simulation, but when Jared lays it all out here starting with explaining how "The One" is a part of the plan/system, I think maybe the explanation is just simply that Neo has been physically modified by the Machines. Assuming things are at or close to "singularity" level, it's not a stretch to say that the Machines could use nanomachines to physically modify the human body's "code" in a way that allows communication with Machines (when he holds his hand out and the Machines stop, it's not a superpower, he's just literally asking them to stop, and they're stopping because his "programming" gives him that authority) and the ability to "see" things in a way to compensate for not having his standard issue eyes anymore.
thanks wisecrack for creating havoc inside my head.
12:34 how are these myths when tech companies have admitted to it?