Blog 12: Summary and Response to "Red Pill or Blue Pill?"

     In the article" Red pill or blue pill is ignorance bliss? adapted by "The Matrix, liberal education, and other splinters in the mind" by Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson. Explain to us similarities between the Alice's Wonderland story and the movie" The Matrix".

     Cornell and Malcolmson explain to us that Neo and Alice were gone" through a mirror" to a new world subjecting them to a series of experiences, where all of these changes keep them in a big confusion which leave them questioning who they are? What is real? Or are they dreaming?.

     Cornel and Malcolmson continued with" The Allegory of The Cave about liberation of one of the prisoners from the light of the cave that is a "shadowy" world to the light of the sun, that is the real world. Outside of the cave to the bright light is an unpleasant and painful experience. "As Morpheus explains to Neo", he had never used his eyes before, so now he is seeing the truth of pain, hurt and the real world.

     However, the authors continue comparing a difference between "The Matrix" and "The Allegory of the cave" from Plato's Republic. Socrates describes the outside world of the cave as "more beautiful" full of sunlight. On the other hand, Morpheus describes the real world as "The Desert of the Real" dark and phony. Despite Plato and the Wachowski brothers show us in a different way the real world, they definitely agree that "freedom is not something that most people are going to be inclined towards or be receptive to".

     Cypher, Morpheus's crew had a conversation with agent Smith where he realize that ignorance is bliss because people believe what they see or hear, but once facts are out they ignore everything around them for their safety. In addition, Cypher prefers ignorance instead to have to take orders from some one else, he wants to be free to do what he wants including restraints and responsibilities.

     They finish the article pointing that "The Matrix" leaves a question about us "why do we want to know the truth?. They also agree that most people would not choose ignorance instead of the real world. Independently if truth brings disappoint, "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied".