the true question needs to be addressed. What is the Matrix? Is there really an answer, or like in the movie, do we humans just find new ways to ask the question. To find the answer to this question, we must do precisely what Neo did in the movie.First of all, we must learn to accept that this world is largely made up. Everything we are and everything we perceive is influenced by someone or something with power; power in our society to feed us what it wants us to eat. Unfortunately, we also choose to sit at their table. Most try not to ask why because like Cypher states, "Ignorance is bliss." It is far easier to work with the systems of the world because it was CREATED that way. To ask is to think, to think is to challenge, to challenge is to lose comfort in what the majority of our world finds comfort in. Like technology created Thomas' world, our world today is created by those who wish to create their "worlds" around us. For hundreds of years now, the nation-state has created its own Matrix. Lines, that do not normally exist in nature, have been drawn. Citizens within a state are led to believe ideas so that the state can further itself. Like the Matrix feeding off of humans, but keeping them occupied, governments feed off of the people to support them economically. They keep us occupied by giving us what we believe we need to survive: structure. David Held, in his article "From City-states to a Cosmopolitan Order," discusses his view of democracy and the need to establish a global state. One thought states:At issue here is a civil society that is neither simply planned nor merely market oriented but, rather, open to organizations, associations and agencies pursuing their own projects, subject to the constraints of democratic processes and a common structure of action.Held insists that "civil" society is one that is subject to democracy. In Held's view, in order for humans to organize at a national, or even, global...
