Task# 4 If you had to note down the key features of your reality to a friend, what would you say?
Morpheus tells Neo that he has been living in a dreamworld, that his reality is concealed behind the wool that has been pulled over his eyes to hide the fact that he is a slave, held in place by a prison that he cannot see, hear, taste or touch - a prison for his mind. But it’s ok you say. It’s only a movie. Consider this:
“Modern consumer soceity runs on a simple principle. We are fed an illusion of what we would want our world to be: a world in which we are more handsome or beautiful, slimmer, more successful, more respected, cleverer, richer, happier. We allow ourselves to become convinced that we can achieve this world if only we buy this car, own this home, this stero, this mobile phone, eat this food, drink this beer. Aspiring to this world keeps us in wage slavery, functioning as perfect consumer units, to the point where it is no longer necessary to feed us the illusion: we are the illusion.” This is from a book that doesn’t exist called A Beginner’s uide to Reality, by Jim Baggott
