The best part is that the system or the matrix, as a conscious entity, doesn’t want to keep us trapped, even if that is all we have known and believed for most of our lives. This may be the most difficult thing to digest. Because many people’s identities are centered around the fact that evil is outside. That we are in a war with evil forces and we must free ourselves. The system wants us free so that it doesn’t have to keep bearing the unbearable burden of these ridiculous projections.

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The System Is Not Evil… It’s A Reflection Of You And Us

This is an excerpted story from the original post on <a href="https://medium.com/the-infinite-zero-experience/the-system-is-not-evil-its-a-reflection-of-you-and-us-8696a8ae61d4">Medium </a>- I encourage you to read the full thing, but you can get a gist here...

Before I go into this topic, I want to share where I am coming from. I used to be a highly rebellious individual for the long part of my short life. I vehemently hated any form of control and system, especially governments, educational institutions, religious institutions, science, and anything that represented authority or a form of “knowledge” where the other believed they knew better.

Ironically, even though I hated all forms of spirituality and religion I knew at the time, I was equally idealistic about how the world “should be”. There is no need for war, sickness, poverty, and all the other evils that are an integral part of our society! For a short period I delved into conspiracies. When you are deeply polarized and in denial, anything can seem like a sensible and acceptable explanation for the state of the world.

If I wanted, I could have stuck to this worldview like many or most other people who go down these paths of idealism and denial.

But in a certain moment, the illusion started shattering. I started realizing the depth of my projection onto the reality of the situation. The illusion was shattering because I was exhausted with blaming others and feeling powerless, just preaching and “hoping” for a better world, without really changing things within myself. Prior to this, even though I had been making changes, I realized these were quite superficial. I was just flitting from one belief to another. But I was not going to the depth of the issue.

Hope in our society is deeply corrupted. Hope for most people is a wishing of things to change or go away without making any effort. Genuine hope is that which gives strength and courage to make the effort to materialize the potential we wish for. But just wishing for things to change or go away without any real deep transformational effort on our part is not going to result in any change.

It is quite amazing that just changing your perspective about something can change it completely. From being a hater of the system, I have fallen deeply in love with the immense beauty of this amazing matrix of intricately connected matrixes. This external love is a reflection of the love and acceptance I feel for the totality of my self.

Of course, being an early fan of The Matrix, I was deeply influenced by it. The general opinion about the trilogy highlights the evil in the system as a control mechanism to keep you living in an illusion. But after watching the trilogy over 30 times in the last 15 years, while also undergoing this transformation, I can say that even those opinions are a great projection of each individual onto the movie itself. The movie may not be saying what we think it is saying.

The matrix is highlighting what we think about reality rather than giving us an idea about the reality of reality…

The illusion is in our minds. It is our beliefs about reality that keep us trapped in the illusion. And this denial about how we trap ourselves is what we project outward onto the system, calling it evil, corrupt, and a million other things.

The collective human repression is immensely greater than the repression of each individual. As a collective we have greatly failed to accept the reality of ourselves. Projecting arbitrary ideals as the “way to be”, we have ended up in a state of deep denial.

Chaos and destruction is the inevitable manifestation of a society that is based in repression and idealism.

Even so, the matrix is beautiful because in reflecting how we treat ourselves, it simultaneously gives us the way out. Neo was not the savior of the human race. Neo found peace within himself by facing the darkest part of himself — and he got the fuck out of there! The final surrender to his dark side — Agent Smith — was him accepting the totality of himself. But until he was ready to do that, Neo projected his darkness onto the entire Matrix, resulting in Smith “duplicating” himself and taking over the matrix.

If we get attached to our ideals, because they sound nice and noble, because they make us feel accepted in a society that is deeply sick, we are imprisoned by our own beliefs. If we cannot accept all parts of ourselves, we lack the freedom to be spontaneous, because all our energy is spent repressing the reality of who we are.

The best part is that the system or the matrix, as a conscious entity, doesn’t want to keep us trapped, even if that is all we have known and believed for most of our lives. This may be the most difficult thing to digest. Because many people’s identities are centered around the fact that evil is outside. That we are in a war with evil forces and we must free ourselves. The system wants us free so that it doesn’t have to keep bearing the unbearable burden of these ridiculous projections.

If we can digest this idea, it is the fastest way to “liberate” yourself. Not from the system, but from the illusions that you create to keep yourself a prisoner.

Because the reality of the matrix is that it is a perfect mirror to each individual and for us as a collective.

Faking positivity or projecting idealism is not the solution. Praying for peace and preaching “love and light” is not going to change the reality of the matrix in any way. Because the matrix is a purer mirror than our beliefs. It is able to reflect even that which we choose to deny about ourselves.

<a href="https://medium.com/the-infinite-zero-experience/the-system-is-not-evil-its-a-reflection-of-you-and-us-8696a8ae61d4">Read the full story on Medium </a>

And checkout <a href="/r/Comadism/">r/Comadism </a>if you resonate with these ideas.

<a href="/u/Dull-Carob/">u/Dull-Carob </a>do elaborate! :)

I don’t believe that human nature, if there is one, is in fact good. There’s evil inside us and things like war, domination of others, and lack of understanding are among the most fundamental human characteristics

<a href="/u/DrTushfinger/">u/DrTushfinger </a>exactly the point, we are a balance of both. To fool ourselves into anything else is an illusion. Even if we want to always choose good, there is no objective way of knowing that we are doing good in the long term. Sometimes people need to suffer, and sometimes we need to experience hurt and pain, that is part of the growth process. And saying that we should eradicate evil is a meaningless statement from this perspective. There is only what is necessary for us to grow, in whatever way that may be.

Oh God! True... So horribly true! Only if everyone could change their perspective to something like this... Don't know anymore what to say! Love, light and peace to all... 💖 💫 ✌🏻

<a href="/u/krik7/">u/krik7 </a>glad you resonate, checkout <a href="https://theinfinitezero.com">theinfinitezero.com </a>if you like this kind of stuff. And also <a href="/r/Comadism/">r/Comadism </a>

Thank you for this post. I resonate with this completely, and it's hard to put this truth into words... this is fantastic!

Evil is a concept created by humans, there is no evil there is no good . There just nature .

There's no secret societies coordinating control over society, I don't believe. We are all just prone to greed and excess and much of the faults in the system are just aspects of human nature that have grown saturated as we've perpetuated and fed them.

Did I miss the part where he said all faults in the system are from secret societies? I got the impression he was saying it was all within ourselves...

man i love you're talking about his but i can't read it all. peace be with you dude. perhaps a fat party too.

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