![]() ![]() ![]() A computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.” A copper top battery. A human’s entire life existed encased in ooze where their brains were stimulated with the illusion of living their lives with an independent free will. What was really happening was humans were being raised in fields and farmed as a source of energy for the machine world. In the Matrix, Neo realizes through the guidance of Morpheus, that his human existence is just a façade. Since dreams are so vivid, they therefore must be real. He concludes that human senses cannot be trusted and that everything we know may be under the control of evil. Rene Descartes questions whether one can truly be certain the world that is experienced is the real world. Humans needed to free themselves from the illusion in order to find reality. Plato believed that the world we live in was an illusion. We live in a consumer culture that is filled with things that are created to represent a form of reality that isn’t true. The French postmodern philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, argues that the modern consumer culture and its many simulations are far more real than reality itself. Ī person may watch the Matrix trilogy for its special effects and actions scenes, or, for the numerous philosophical influences hidden within its script. Hicks confesses that even if one understands the many influences and the consequences that ensue postmodernism, it can’t be refuted. ![]() Tracing postmodernism back to the philosophers that influenced its conception, helps bring understanding of how its many complexities fit together. By seeing that postmodernism leads to “nihilism” – the destruction of traditional values and beliefs, one gains a better understanding of the process. He explains that the postmodern stance is in direct opposition to modernism. Hicks dives headfirst into Postmodernism with all its influential philosophers. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” Is it too late to take the red pill? As I was reading through Stephen Hicks’s book Explaining Postmodernism, I instantly began reflecting on the movie, Matrix. “You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. ![]()
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