We must answer this question clearly and convincingly, in order to save humanity
The vaccine-injured generation is becoming untethered from reality and predatory Big Tech is taking advantage
Keanu Reeves has been in some brilliant movies, he appears to have gone through extraordinary hardship, and he gives many lovely interviews. So it would be easy to think that he is somehow with us, that of course he must have taken the red pill himself.
Then I saw this interview in connection with the new Matrix movie and now I’m alarmed (the segment I am discussing starts at 7:09 and goes for 51 seconds. It’s also available on Twitter and Instagram as a stand-alone clip):
Transcript
Keanu: I was having dinner at a friend’s house. This director. And he has some kids and there was like a 13-year-old, a 15-year-old, and a 17-year-old. And they hadn’t seem the film the Matrix and so the director’s like, “Why don’t you tell them what it’s about?”
So I start to say, “Well there’s this guy who’s in a kind of virtual world and then he finds out that there is a real world and he’s really questioning what’s real and not real and he really wants to know what’s real and what’s not real —”
And the young girl was like, “Why?”
And I was like, “What do you mean?”
And she was like, “Who cares if it’s real?”Interviewer: Hmm.
Keanu: And I was like, “What, you don’t care if it’s real!?”
And she was like, “No.”Interviewer: Isn’t that wild?
Keanu: It’s awesome!
For me there were several troubling takeaways from this clip:
1.) On the one hand, hats off to the seventeen-year-old girl for calling out some endless esoteric bullsh*t that goes all the way back to Plato.
2.) Keanu Reeves and the Matrix franchise are themselves becoming part of the Matrix and they seem to be either unaware or unconcerned about this ironic development.
3.) To her credit, Carrie-Anne Moss disagrees with Keanu and defends the real world.
4.) We are in so much more trouble than I previously thought. Here’s why:
We have been arguing since the start of the pandemic that the goal of the Gates/Fauci/Pharma regime is to poison humanity to push us into chronic illness that will be very profitable for them while draining all of the wealth out of our pockets — and that the predatory Big Tech robber barons are taking advantage of this situation by pushing us into virtual digital worlds, that will be better and more exciting than our real (chronically ill) lives, and that all of this is the very slippery slope to transhumanism.
It had just never occurred to me that many of the people being poisoned would just accept this fate without a fight.
But of course, aluminum and other toxicants contained in vaccines likely interfere with regions of the brain necessary for processing emotions, empathy, logic, reason, and cognitive dissonance. So it’s not even that surprising that some people in the vaccine-injured generation might just shrug their shoulders at being pushed into the virtual world where bodies serve the machine (and capital). ‘Is it better than the real world, more exciting, with less chronic pain? Let’s go!’
So it seems to me that if humanity is going to survive, we must be able to answer this girl’s question, “Why?” “Why does the real world matter?”
One instinctive answer I’ve heard is that the real world is better than the artificial digital world. But it’s not. The digital world will always be faster, funnier, sexier, more exciting, and more dopamine and serotonin producing than the real world. That’s the enormous problem that we face and it is here now. TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Facebook Stories are much more thrilling than most ordinary social experiences — because these social media sites algorithmically curate the best five-second highlights of the best scripted moments of the imagined playacted lives of people all over the world. The immersive worlds created by the video game makers (where you can travel to outer space and participate in wars without consequences) are also more thrilling than our day-to-day lives.
I suppose one could also answer that there is no meaning in the digital world and meaning is the ultimate human experience. But meaning is an elusive concept even under the best of real human circumstances. Furthermore, the programmers of artificial intelligence believe that they can simulate memories, affection, and nostalgia in digital characters (see the robots in Blade Runner) and humans (e.g. Facebook’s annual retrospective highlight reels of beloved pictures). So the ability to experience meaning may not be the litmus test of the real that we think it is.
As we think through these issues, the definitions of words are really important. What do we mean by “better than.” More of the brain chemicals dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine may temporarily feel good but that’s the logic of drug dealers so that’s a trap and not better than the real. Real life involves so many unwanted emotions — boredom, pain, frustration, and disappointment — along with so many delightful feelings that are very difficult to measure — intuition, connection, joy, and love. I guess the challenge is to define what it means to be human and to value the full experience of humanness rather than just the peak moments of the highlight real. As a dear friend recently said, “avoiding pain is not the purpose of life.”
But there is another more urgent answer which is that — if the real world does not matter (and the virtual world is just as good or better), then at some point, the Pharma/Big Tech predators may simply turn us off. Real world toxic injury leads to digital slavery (the metaverse) that soon becomes real world genocide. If you’ve already uploaded your whole personality to the cloud, the game, the metaverse, then Apple, Epic, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Niantic, Nike, etc. (all of the companies that want to create metaverses) have no more use for you. Once all of your wealth has been drained out of your bank accounts they can simply turn off your life (with the help of their buddies in Pharma). Eugenics-driven depopulation seems to be Gates’ goal (as it was for his father) and I imagine the billionaire class would much prefer to live in a world with several billion fewer people who want to overthrow them. So why is the real world better? Because of personal sovereignty.
Okay those are my initial thoughts. In the comments below please let me know your answer to the question, “Why is the real world better than the metaverse?”
Never did I imagine that the question of why the real world matters would come up as a topic of conversation. I appreciate how much depth of thought comes through in your posts. I often find myself torn between despising the technology that I'm using now to respond to your blog post and feeling profoundly grateful that it offers thinkers and philosophers like you and others a platform to share such important ideas.
You only have to look at how empty, sad, and meaningless the lives of those who spend too much time in the virtual world are to know that the real world is better.
Very much like how empty, sad and meaningless the lives of drug addicts are. It's really the same thing.