In the movie The Matrix, Morpheus explains what the matrix is to Neo. He explains it as the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth. He describes it as a prison for your mind.
We are all faced with having to decide whether we really want to know the truth about something. In a post last year, I talked about how you cannot wake a person who’s pretending to be asleep. For some of us, the truth is too much to bear. We would rather stay asleep and not acknowledge what is really happening.
In the case of the matrix, the character Cypher betrays his friends after making a deal with Agent Smith to be put back into the matrix. In the movie, those who take the red pill are considered free because they know the truth. However, Cypher feels that the matrix is more real than the reality he is living in.
While I believe that it is always best to know the truth and what is real, there will always be those who don’t feel the same way. What would you take? The red pill? Or the blue pill?
