Are You A Slave To The Matrix?
April 29, 2014
Today’s world is a strange place. We
are inundated with signals from early
on in life, encouraging each of us to
walk a particular path, establishing
blinders on us along the way in order
to discourage us from looking for
alternatives to what the herd is doing
or thinking. Life is so complex that,
overtime, if we are paying attention, we
realize that there are an infinite
number of possibilities as to what
the human experience could be, and
we come see that the world is on fire
because individuals all too infrequently
question why things are the way that
they are, failing to notice that their
mindset or behavior needs adjustment
in favor of more intelligent, common-
sensical or sustainable patterns of
existence.
Not meant to be overtly critical of anyone’s lifestyle choices or personal situation, the following 16 signs that you may be a slave to the matrix are intended purely as an observational approach to helping you identify the areas in your life where you may be missing an opportunity to liberate yourself from someone else’s self-destructive design for your life. Read on, and please take a moment to comment below with anything which you’d like to add to the list or object to.
1) You pay taxes to people that you’d like to see locked up in jail. This is perhaps the biggest indicator that we are slaves to the matrix. The traditional notion of slavery conjures up images of people in shackles, forced to work on plantations to support rich plantation owners. The modern day version of this is forced taxation, where our incomes are automatically docked before we ever even see the "money."
2) You go to the doctor, but you’re still sick. Modern medical care, in spite of all of it’s scientific progress, has sadly become sick care, where we are rarely advised to eat well or tend to our mental and physical health, but instead are routinely advised to consume expensive medications and to undergo procedures that are designed to proliferate the for-profit healthcare matrix.
3) You’ve picked Team Democrat or Team Republican and still argue with your friends, family and co-workers about politics. This is what the control strategy of DIVIDE AND CONQUER looks like in our society. Both of the major parties are corrupt, through and through, and independent candidates are not even allowed to participate in the major Presidential debates. By believing in one of these parties and burning your personal energy on arguing with other people, you are turning over your soul to the matrix and doing your share in making sure that “we the people” will never be united against such corruption.
4) You work hard doing something that you HATE in order to earn fiat currency. Work is important and "money" DOES pay the bills, however, so many people lose the best years of their lives doing things which they HATE, just for money. The TRUTH about "money" today is that we do not have REAL MONEY, but instead, inflationary fiat currency that is PRIVATELY-OWNED and manipulated. Since it is still necessary to get by in this world, it is best that you get more VALUE for your time by doing something that you actually enjoy, or by working with people which you don’t despise. It’s easier than you may think to live on less money than we believe that we need, we just have to be willing to go against the grain realize this.
5) You’re willing to accrue personal debt in order to fund the acquisition of consumer a consumer-oriented lifestyle. Each time a credit card is swiped, it creates digits on the balance sheets of the banks that are involved with the financial looting of the world today. These digits are then multiplied electronically by the fractional reserve system which is in place [and which exponentially increases the power of these institutions]. To participate in this and by agreeing to pay back this fake money PLUS interest in order to maintain a certain lifestyle is a strong indication that you are bound by one of the main tenets of the matrix: CONSUMERISM.
6) You converse with REAL people about the ongoings and happenings of FAKE TV shows. TV is the most potent tool that is used for mind control, and the so-called “programming” that is available is designed to reinforce certain behaviors in the masses. Dramatizing the ego’s importance, over-sexualizing EVERYTHING, glorifying violence and teaching submissiveness to phony authority are the main features of modern TV. By taking what is happening onscreen and making it a part of your REAL life, you are doing your job of supporting the matrix’s desire to confuse us about the nature of REALITY, proving that something doesn’t have to actually happen in order it to feel real to people.
7) You don’t have anything to hide from total surveillance. If it doesn’t bother you that someone, somewhere, working for somebody is watching you, listening to your conversations and monitoring your movements, then you are a good slave to the matrix. Invisible surveillance is an insidious form of thought control, and by using the logic of, “I have nothing to hide, therefore, it will do me no harm to be surveilled,” then you are mindlessly admitting that you have an earthly master and are not of sovereign mind and body.
8) You think that the world would be safer if only the GOVERNMENTS had guns. This is a violent world and criminals engage in criminality against honest people at every level of society, including from within the government. Sure, in a perfect world, weapons wouldn’t be necessary for anyone. But sadly, our world is anything BUT perfect and firearms are indeed a very effective form of protection against both common criminals and abusive governments alike. The willingness to forego your right to self-defense is a sign that you’ve relegated your PERSONAL responsibility to someone else. Having the masses abdicate personal responsibility is one of the most important aspects of controlling them. Welcome to the matrix.
9) You KNOWINGLY drink fluoridated water. Of all the health debates taking place today, the topic of fluoridated water is the EASIEST to understand, for it is a toxic by-product of an industrial process. Water is supposedly fluoridated to aid in “dental health” (which is COMPLETE BULLSHIT), but if this were so, then the involuntary fluoridation of public water is a medication without your consent… a form of slavery. Knowing this and continuing to drink fluoridated water is a sign that you’re content with your slavery to the matrix. Here are 18 scientifically validated reasons to end public water fluoridation.
10) You KNOWINGLY consume TOXIC poisons like MSG and Aspartame. These two chemicals are widely known to be toxic to the human body. Knowing this and continuing to poison yourself with tasty, but chemical-laden processed foods is a sign that the matrix has programmed you to place LESS value on your health and future than on your immediate gratification.
11) You depend on the pharmaceutical industrial complex for the management of your own mental health. The use of psychotropic medicines is rising rapidly in our society because people have been convinced that mental states are similar to diseases, while the truth about natural mental health has been obfuscated by corporate media and a for-profit medical establishment. If you’re taking psychotropic medications, then you are under one of the most potent forms of mind control that has ever existed. Part of this control is to convince you that you have NO authority over your own mind. This is perhaps the matrix’s most terrible lie, and by willingly taking these psychotropic medications, you are conforming to the worst kind of slavery and inhibiting your natural mental and emotional responses to the life stressors that are signaling to you that you need to change your behavior and habits.
12) You still watch your local and national news programming. The mainstream news media is a tool of control and manipulation, and by continuing to support their ideas and world views by giving them your attention, you are volunteering to be a slave to this not-so-subtle form of mental programming. Even the local news is scripted at all levels by agents of the handful of corporations tasked with shaping our opinions of events.
13) You’re more concerned with televised sports or other mindless distractions than you are with the quality of your natural environment. The Deepwater Horizon, Alberta Tar Sands, the rise of fracking, the sacrifice of the Amazon and Fukushima are all LIFE CHANGING EVENTS that will severely impact our future on planet earth. To be unconcerned with all of this while tuning into a never-ending stream of sports trivia and distraction-based living is a sign that your sense of self-preservation has been stolen and replaced with an impulsive tendency for triviality and escapism.
14) You’re skeptical of any area of life that hasn’t been “proven” or validated by “modern science.” The very essence of science is the inquiry into the unknown, implying that until science can grasp something, it is unexplainable. By discrediting or ridiculing experiences that other people have which evade scientific understanding, like near-death experiences, acupuncture or the life changing effects of Ayahuasca, then you are slavishly reducing your understanding of the world to a narrow range of possibilities. The matrix is made possible by efforts of volunteer gatekeepers people who are unwilling to think outside of the box.
15) You’ve never questioned the POPULARIZED version of ancient history and the origins of our civilization. There are MANY unanswered questions about the origins of the human race that point to a different version of human history than what is taught in school. Read “20 History Questions They Refuse To Answer In School” to discover some of the many ways in which our history has been hijacked. By NEVER questioning what we’ve been told about our origin, we are acquiescing to many of the imposed belief systems and narrow-banded views of human potential that the matrix promotes.
16) You haven’t yet realized that you are a SPIRITUAL being living a HUMAN experience.
If you can relate to any of the items on this list, then the matrix has you, and it is now your duty to engage more deeply in your liberation.
If you’d like to add to or object to anything on this list, then please do so in the comments section below, and be sure to share this with your friends.
[H/T]
~ MERIT
