RLG332H5 Lecture 2: RLG332- Lecture 2
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Modern way to get a point across. Modern forms as just as much theological content. Amping-up of violence is just done to get your attention. Oddly there is a bit of both and more. Everything in the movie suggest that the matrix is the everyday world. The matrix is the system of information in which we all must participate in order to communicated, buy food etc. Becomes the name of neural interactive simulation run by machines to control the real. Neo is of course the one the messiah means anointed one in hebrew. Morpheus is the new john baptist the underground zion is the new jerusalem. The buddhist distinction samsara and enlightenment is mirrored in the choice between the blue pill and the red pill. Human suffering in the matrix can be understood as karmic punishment. Through inner discipline, neo learns to transcend the dualities of mind and matter, life and death.
