Escaping The Matrix
I am sitting at home, expressing my creative nature by posting this blog. If I was working, I would have to suppress that need until I got off of work that day. That is of course, after the evening commute, bus or car, and after I ate dinner. Would I have time at 6:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m.? How stressed would I be? How much time would I really have if I had to go to be at 10:00 p.m. to get enough sleep; Enough sleep that is recommended we have to avoid sleep depravation. Of course, I would need to hook up my CPAP machine to make sure I’m getting enough oxygen while I sleeping.
As many times as I think of the movie, The Matrix, I think of what the movie was trying to say. How in the world can one stay healthy, exercise, when the corporate world sucks so much energy out of you? Then you play the game. Corporate institutions compete their employees against each other for a higher salary, a “job title”, or to avoid the fear of getting “let go” because of performance.
Chess Player or Chess Piece?
I played that game for forty years. Of and on. And what did I receive for all of that? How satisfied am I in my life for what I gave in return? My time, which is a commodity we all have to spend and can’t be saved. The whole system has us in the Matrix. Most of us are chess pieces that are apart of a system that was designed for us not to win. From our educational system, that teaches us the bare minimum, based on funding and zip codes that determine the quality of the education you get. And they get the best knowledge locked up, behind closed doors, and citizens can only enter if you can afford to pay the price of admission.