the Institute of Unlearning, editorial 27

I know I was not alone in the feeling of excitement that was created when the first installment of the Matrix trilogy was released a few years ago. There, on big screens all across the globe, was a movie daring to tell the truth about the perceptual prison that humanity finds itself trapped in. While many appreciated the movie for its stunning looks and breakthrough special effects, what made the Matrix film so successful was its ability to twist your mind as much as the now famous "bullet cam" twisted your view. The final installment leaves the unlearned observer with a stunning illustration of what can only be understood as Illuminati sabotage.

Gone from the final movie are those breakthrough insights that had so much potential to wake people up. There are some thought provoking scenes in the movie, but none of them progress to an empowering understanding like the other two movies featured. Instead, the movie relies on an even more gigantic helping of animated violence to resolve its conflicts, unsuccessfully I might add. This aspect alone should warn the unlearned viewer that something is amiss with the film.

The final scene of the movie confirms the death of the trilogy's original spirit. Does the world get destroyed? No, it does not. What we are left with, as the final vision of peace, is a beautiful sunrise shining triumphantly over a glistening corporate cityscape. We are told that those who want to be free of the matrix will be released, but the remaining unawakened will continue to be food for the machines and their matrix lives continued in subservience to their corporate masters. As for the released humans, the movie is silent about their future. Apparently, they will continue to live like rats in the bowels of the earth, as the planet's surface remains environmentally scorched and inhabited by the machines.

This is a resolution that is totally unacceptable. It was the efforts of the awakened humans to liberate their trapped brethren that created the original plot conflict in the first place. Now we are supposed to believe that because the machines stopped hunting down the free humans in Zion that those same humans will also stop trying to free those who remained trapped in the Matrix? Viewers are supposed to believe that the best life humans can hope to achieve is one where we still slave most of our lives away to corporate power structures in clean environments?

What kind of resolution would the unlearned hold out for? Perhaps an insight or two into the multi-dimensional nature of our existence could be explored. It is clear the Wachowski brothers, the makers of the Matrix trilogy, had some message of importance about that very issue. Death was a central event in each of the first two films. Neo's resurrection in the first film illustrated the power of belief while Trinity's revival in the second film attested to the emotional power found in love. In this disappointing finale, both characters die without meaningful insight. It is hard to believe that this anti-climax is the culmination of the previous two film's efforts.

To be balanced, it may be that my disappointment is the result my ego's unwillingness to accept death as the final event of awareness, beyond which nothing exists. The human survival instinct is so strong that perhaps we falsely project ourselves into realities that exist only in the mind, to be turned off when the brain ceases all functioning. As the character Smith relates to Neo in his final battle, "Surely you must see by now that your desire for meaning is futile. It's nothing more than a flaw in your fragile species!"

But then I am reminded as to who actually provided the funding for these epic blockbusters. Movies don't get made on the charity of people. The big bucks needed to finance movies these days means that artists often have to cow tow to people well funded by the existing power structure. While the profit motive may suppress some corporate objections to empowering movie themes, you can be sure that the most insightful points will be left on the cutting room floor. The Zionist movie studios seem to have succeeded once again in protecting the true matrix that blinds the masses.

But in the obviously disappointing ending of Matrix Revolutions, there may be some redeeming quality. If humans are aware enough to see how brutally the script and storyline were gutted, then perhaps one might perceive the true matrix that the films tried to illustrate metaphorically. It is unclear whether this was the intention of the Wachowski Brothers. But like the current regime in Washington, the careless arrogance in which they carry out their nefarious schemes wakes more people up each passing day.

In the final analysis, the defeat of the true matrix is possible once humans tap into the power of their multidimensional natures. That our consciousness exists beyond the physical must be converted by the unlearner from a belief into a known. Armed with this knowledge, humans may yet find the courage that is necessary to speak truth to power. The end of the matrix need not be brought about through the gratuitous violence depicted in the movies, but can be achieved through one's willingness to let love and truth animate their actions and understandings. Will we allow the blue-pilled message of Matrix Revolutions to put us back to sleep? The red pill still waits for those willing to unlearn.