Are you really to break the social matrix?

[ken nubo]

If you know a bit of history, there is always people who try to repress the general population because of power. Power over the population. In a way, our society is constructed based on rules by those few in power to keep people in line.

All rules and common belief made from society is an illusion; it’s just socially enforced to keep the population in check. Know that it is an illusion is to break from the social matrix.

The Western world is more subtle at the power game then, say, North Korea. Violent isn’t necessary to control the population and make them tremble in fear. Instead of using the stick, the Western World use the carrot to control the population.

What are the methods to keep the population in control? And it all started day one, when you first enter elementary school. “Keep your mouth shut and sit down. Do as you’re told. Don’t think. Be good and you’ll be rewarded”.

And so you did.

Years later, instead of going to the desk when the bell rings, you go to your work station, whether it’s an assembly line or desk in an office.

Of course it’s nothing personal, because you’re merely a tool for the business’s interests. That’s how the economy runs, more so back in the late 1800s where there was mass production which included coal miners and assembly line workers.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Now that you know the social matrix exist, ignore the fear base mongering and forge your own path.

[The David]

You're starting to sound like David Icke.

[Jane004]

All rules and common belief made from society is an illusion; it’s just socially enforced to keep the population in check. Know that it is an illusion is to break from the social matrix. /QUOTE/


What are the methods to keep the population in control? And it all started day one, when you first enter elementary school. “Keep your mouth shut and sit down. Do as you’re told. Don’t think. Be good and you’ll be rewarded”.


Yes, you are right.
We like in the prison which is called society.
from the beginning of our life parents, teachers teach us how to live in "a wright way " for being loved. Don't do this or that. And little child doesn't want to be unloved, he doesn't want to be alien in social enviroment. thats why he must accept rules of survival. We are so much frightened by this social machine that we are unable to resist.

[rene_stpierre]

I believe it is a good thing to have rules and guidelines. Otherwise, our society would be in chaos.

However, I also believe it is each individual's responsibility to know about the "society matrix" and know how and when to get out of it in order to pursue one's dreams and goals.

Those who do not understand this are the "prisoners" of the matrix.

My 2 cents
René

[djkc]

Hi everyone, thats an interesting subject. Like in the movie the Matrix we are all socially conditioned to behave in a certain way and to obey certain rules. Many times those rules were not even told to us explicitly. Like no-one ever told you "hey, dont eat other humans, its bad." but our culture is so full of jokes about missionares being eaten, etc that this kind of information is getting through anyway. its an extreme example but still there are plenty of rules that are being installed in a very subtle way... here is a post from my blog about it. enjoy!

The Matrix. Part 1. Open your eyes.

This is going to be a fun ride. Let’s go.

First there was this movie called The Matrix. Sci-fi, cool, beautiful actors, all very solid.

Too solid.

Too solid to be just another good science fiction movie.

It rang true. It rang TOO TRUE. And when your internal compass turns to something and call for your attention then you better go and listen.

In the movie it is an elaborate system designed to fool humans, to restrain their potential, to limit their beliefs, to make them a tiny helpless part of a huge machine.

And all that without vast majority having any idea of what’s going on. A person is getting born into it and does not know any better.

“An interactive virtual environment involving systematic global deception" so to speak.

Well, if you have not seen it yet – just get it and watch. It’s really worth your time.

Learning the Game, going out and experiencing tons of social interactions you will learn to see the Matrix.

You might even start despising it and think you are better than those who live under its powers. But after a while you hopefully will understand that the Matrix is there for quite a few purposes.
There are two sides to it as they are to all things.

Let’s look first at the BRIGHT SIDE.

The whole structure of modern society at large can be called the Matrix. There are many noble and useful functions that it performs.

First thing that comes to mind is our Safety. Police and military are an integral part of the Matrix and we simply can not exist without them.

It’s so funny to see people who love to say “F!ck the police, yeah, kick their f!cking cop asses” – to run to the phone and be hysterically dialing 911 when the first unpleasant situation arises. We all agree that some organized kind of existence is necessary and it is VITAL for our civilization to have it and to mountain status quo.

But then there is another side to it. The DARK SIDE of the Matrix exists too.

It basically consists of the idea that in order TO BE WORTH SOMETHING in life, in order TO BE SUCCESSFUL AS A HUMAN BEING, in order to have A BEAUTIFUL/GOOD WOMAN or in order to be loved at all you are expected to have certain SOCIAL STATUS.




Big and small corporations are spending huge amount of money and intellectual power to convince people that it really is so and to stimulate consumption.

Welcome to modern consumer society.

Like Jeffy from Real Social Dynamics puts it:

"People react predictably to society’s rewards and punishments. This is a necessity in our civilization. We have a complex division of labor, not everyone can be the Man. So don’t approach, don’t be alpha. But if you let these things to dictate your life – what do you become? A consumer!”

The Magic Pill mentality prevails. This system uses all its power to make people feel FEAR, UNCERTAINTY and UNHAPPINESS and then SELL them Magic Pill that promises to relieve their fears. This is what the whole advertising machine is all about.

Personal note: Somehow I stayed immune to all that. Something in my brain prevented me from connecting those images of beautiful women to the goods they sold. I remember when I was a kid and it was still communism in Russia (that really sucked btw!) I used to cut out those beauties from some foreign magazines and cover my walls with them.


Those magazines where actually forbidden and only KGB and communist elite had them in abundance at their luxurious homes.


How did I get to them? Their houses had huge waste bins downstairs…

Back to the now: the Matrix is at work in all aspects of modern society. You can easily find it in Laws, Norms, Beliefs and Values that are held by the authority.



Man and women are presented with an image of HOW to be a GOOD CITIZEN. They are also being told of WHAT others around them EXPECT of them.


The reward? The good sheep lifestyle, get married to the woman you “deserve” according to your status.

The underlying message is: there will be lots of PAIN if you DO NOT buy and a promise of some instant pleasure if you DO.

For the sake of this blog I want to concentrate on male-female dynamics and how the Matrix influences it.

Men and women are told separate stories about what they should do, how they should dress and where they have to go in order to have success with an opposite sex.



An image the Matrix presents to everyone is that it brings men and women closer together while actually it creates A HUGE GAP between man and woman. A gap where frustration is generated and all kinds of magic pills are being sold.

Take Amsterdam at fall 2007 as an example. People go out after work or on Saturdays. Music everywhere is VERY loud. It prevents any normal conversation. People who came here to meet each other and are influenced by music are getting frustrated.

Alcoholic drinks are being sold to them in order to make them more loose and to overcome this frustration. Man drink to overcome socially programmed fear of approaching and talking to women and women drink to get their state up, get drunk and have an excuse after: "I was drunk, so I went with that guy. That does not count... I am not a slut..."

I was dj-ing at the best venues of Amsterdam and all owners knew that secret: the harder the music the bigger income of the bar.

It became so ridiculously hard that the city Health Service (GGD) insisted on putting decibel meters in some venues so the volume will be just on the edge of causing irreversible damage to human ear... (to be continiued)

DJKC
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Entre Nous Project

[djkc]

here is part 2...

The Matrix. Part 2. The Ways of Influence and the Way Out.

Let’s take a good look at commercial effect of television.

The following paragraph is based on scientific research on media cultivation and gender relations by George Gerbner and Erwin Goffman.

Commercials and soap opera’s. Commercials portray an image of ideal situations for the average man. This is how a Man/Woman is supposed to be, that I want to be/have.

Those ideals are things people strive for. Compare it to “The American Dream”.

In commercials a woman is often displayed as sex-symbol, a seducer, submissive and a follower. A man is being portrayed as active, strong, social and with leadership capabilities.

Television series, soaps operas and sitcom are reality to the average consumer. A recognizable image sprung from reality.

In soaps it’s a trend to portray the following image; the man is weak and submissive, the woman is dominant knows everything better and is the strongest person in the household.

In the media reality and ideal are being presented as extreme opposites.

Because the media portray such a big gap between ideal and reality, it increases the strive for ideal in the average consumer.

This is where frustration comes into the frame.

The strive for the ideal is being increased by the extreme opposites of ideal and reality. Because of the portrayed distance between the two the ideal becomes unreachable which leads to frustration. (If only I was/had such a man/woman!)

This leads to the buying of advertised stuff that is supposed to counter these frustrations such as cosmetics, clothes and presents.

The role of commercials and soap operas thus creates the following situation:
Beautiful woman seem unreachable for the average man. And attractive men seem intangible. These frustrations lead to consumption for both men and woman.

Magazines are another good example of The Matrix at work.

Look at FHM or Playboy or Men’s Health. No word about how to REALLY interact with opposite sex. Like FHM you have those “blurbs”, loose pictures and phrases all over.

What do they do this way? Increase frustration by publishing pictures of very beautiful women. This makes men into dreamers instead of pro-active doers.


Men are lead to belief that sex is hard to get, beautiful women are not for them that in turn leads to them buying porn, visit prostitutes, etc. You get the idea.

All magazines publish ads full of beautiful women next to expensive cars, watches, jewelry. Men work their asses of, get promoted, buy sport cars, expensive watches, and come to the designated meeting place (club, bar) …AND STILL DO NOT GET LAID.

Then they decide that it was not the right car model or that may be a new house will improve his situation. He starts to beleive in "destiny" (another excuse for not being pro-active).

Oftentimes his wealth might attract to him a certain type of women known as “gold digger” that will later divorce him, take half of his money and leave him even more frustrated.

As a Worthy Playboy (thanks Johnny Soporno!) you know that IT DOES NOT MATTER.
LOOKS and MONEY JUST DO NOT MATTER. Period.

Your ability to successfully attract women is based on your ability to engage their emotions, have well-rounded, well developed personality and be able to unplug from the Matrix. That’s it.

Open Cosmo magazine and you will know exactly what I am talking about with regard to women. Smell like this – otherwise your Prince Charming will never notice you. Wear this bag/belt/dress – otherwise you will not FIT into what is considered to be beautiful from now on.


And you know in advance that next edition will just cancel this one and you will have to spend your money once again buying new outfit/ car/ jewelry/ whatever. You KNOW that it will happen but you JUST GO WITH A FLOW.

Women magazines create another side of the gap also by giving women precise advice how to successfully seduce a man, make him jealous or keep him interested.

The man portrayed in those magazines is very competent in passing all those “tests”. All other men thus are “losers” and should be rejected.

If you are going out for while and interacting with women a lot you probably know that feeling that sometimes comes up: you just can see she was waiting for some response from you. Some special response or special reaction. She is brainwashed by all those magazines and thinks that the “real” man should approach her “only like this”. Any other way of interaction she discards and labels like “looser” because they were not described in her favorite magazine(s).

Thus she is doomed to search for a perfect prince for extremely long time. Meanwhile she keeps buying all that stuff which is being promoted in those magazines so to keep her ready for that "ONE&SPECIAL" meeting.

So what actually happens is this: huge gap separates men and women. In this gap things are being sold to them under false promises. Expectations created but possibilities to reach them are taken away.

Ideal seem to bee TOO perfect and unreachable in real life FOR BOTH SEXES.

Very few people see it. And even less take an effort to break out of it.

Most people live in FEAR and die very UNSATISFIED because they did not fit WELL ENOUGH into that “perfect” consumer model.

How does the Matrix influence male behavior? Do you know why you doubt or slow down before approaching an attractive woman?

Did you ever hear your own inner voice saying “that is not possible”, "that’s not aloud" or "how am I going to look like if I do X"? You might not even hear them – they became fast thought loops that you don’t even have to really think.

They just shoot through your brain as an electricity spark and paralyse your will.

Learn to recognize them slow down your thinking when you look at an attractive woman; write your thoughts down exactly. You will quickly find those parasites.

You know somehow that going out and meeting people should happen in specially designated places. Bars, clubs, etc. There are many variations but you somehow know exactly that if you see a nice girl in the supermarket you will not walk up to her and start chatting. Someone got this idea into your head. Think hard now: Who? When?


You will not remember. Social programming has many forms and most of them are invisible.

I mean, nobody ever told you: Hey, cannibalism is bad, don’t eat your mates, right?
But there are enough jokes, stories and hints around in our society to get this idea very strongly into child’s head.

Overcoming insanity of social programming becomes a number one priority in your life, in your Game and your personal development. Again, your intuition and your heart will be the best compass on this journey.

Keep going.

DJKC
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Entre Nous Project

[sunj]

In the US, the word freedom is used to get away with anything. Freedom means nothing now a days. A lot of countries nowadays you can go to without being religiously persecuted, or tyrannized by the entity in power. That's what freedom meant in those old British rule days. Politicians throw it around like it's still such a big deal, but the it's what context you are using the concept/belief of freedom.

For example, people who like so smoke weed don't have freedom to do so in the US. But in Germany or other countries, it's perfectly legal to smoke weed, so that is freedom for them. I don't smoke weed so I don't care about that type of freedom.

As for the "sit down and don't talk" in schools, it's not meant to brainwash you. In order to learn you need some sort order. If the students aren't going to listen to the teacher then what's the purpose? Kids under 16 are required to goto school, so they can't just kick them out for misbehaving. In college, if your are causing trouble you are asked to leave. Sure professors will ask to settle down, but if they don't listen then they can leave.

[Mark Lapierre]

Originally Posted by rene_stpierre

I believe it is a good thing to have rules and guidelines. Otherwise, our society would be in chaos.

Rene is right. It's all a product of how we, as social creatures, live. It's how we learn, how we develop, how we interact with one another, and how we continue to grow in ways which will be beneficial for all.

Rules and guidelines are there because without them we would not know what to do. We don't start life with an understanding of how to interact with the world. But we learn, we make mistakes, and gradually we build up an understanding which guides our way through life with minimal fuss.

Of course that's the ideal. Yes there are some rules which are unhelpful. And yes, some rules have a time and a place, but we mistakenly apply them in the wrong place, or at the wrong time. And yes, sometimes people will convince us to follow certain rules which are purely for their own benefit.

But it's not all a conspiracy, and it's certainly not an illusion. Without social rules humanity would not exist.

[mikeee]

Forging your own path wouldn't be nearly as rewarding if there weren't rules and conventions to break out of