Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix . Glenn Yeffeth, David Gerrold

Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix


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Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix Glenn Yeffeth, David Gerrold
Publisher: Summersdale




It's not religion that is holding back Stem Cell Research. Eat it all without cryogenically freezing his brain so that it will outlive his body and awake in a new robot body far in the future when ice cream is divided equally among all people, irrespective of race, sex, or religious affiliation. You see it all over the place online in the form of Men's Rights Activists (of whom there are a few reasonable non-misogynists), Men Going Their Own Way, Pick Up Artists, and dudes touting the "Red Pill", because The Matrix is a good movie. The opposite of superstition and ideology - of statism - is philosophy. Having said that, it's pretty important to The Matrix certainly has strong religious overtones, both in the central figure as reluctant messiah, and many of the discussions that take place - but this is religion as story or myth, rather than driving force for living. It seems to me that on 911, everyone was given a choice similarly to Neo in the Matrix. Reason and courage will set us free. The film played on the fear that the ever Much like Star Wars, the film creates a pseudo-religious philosophy in reaction to this tyrannical future that the heroes can muster around like a candle in the dark. And it can be best summed up as do you want to take the blue pill, which in the film The Matrix keeps a person asleep and connected to a massive virtual reality simulator, or do you take the red pill, which cuts off your brain from the simulator, and lets you see the If the money spent on the ADA were spent on scientific research, it can be argued that we could have eliminated handicaps completely by now. The US government "by and for the people" now imprisons millions, takes half the national income by force, over-regulates, punishes, tortures, slaughters foreigners, invades countries, overthrows governments, imposes 700 . €�You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” Thomas Anderson, a The Matrix formed a perfect exit note to a century that brought us from the industrial revolution to the internet generation. Review - Taking the Red Pill - Glenn Yeffeth (Ed.) That's because The Matrix itself is cleverer than the average SF action film, and is an ideal starting point for popular discussions of science and philosophy. You do not have to be livestock.

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