The Matrix

restaurant scene

Agent Smith: Do we have a deal, Mr Reagan?

Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.

Agent Smith: Then we have a deal?

Cypher: I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand? And I want to be rich. You know, someone important, like an actor.

Agent Smith: Whatever you want, Mr Reagan.

Cypher: Okay. I get my body back into a power plant, you reinsert me into the Matrix, I'll get you what you want."

Q: Kuinka monille tutuillesi riittäisi Matrix-onnellisuus? Entä sinä?
Matrixin alistavuus toteutuu ihmisen oman mielen kautta. Siksi se on kaikkialla:

Morpheus:

"It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth … that you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind."

References:
[1] Mat-2.197 Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu.

[2] Philosophy & Matrix http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/phi.html.