In this movie analysis Wyatt Stagg says that the symbolic message that's hidden in The Matrix is that the white man's salvation is to embrace his descent into oblivion, and he then concludes by saying that the good way is to reject this notion and do the opposite, assert your existence in the physical realm.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFTmiAx7R48I think it's possible the former is the right idea here. It's at least an idea that can be entertained. Most people seem to unquestioningly run with the latter idea.>For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?Matthew 16:25-26
>>222733769>Wyatt Stagg>movie analysis The guy is retarded, his takes are awful and extremely forced, essentially twisting any movie into whatever he wants it to be. Also got filtered by Gattaca lol
>>222733835Not an argument. And besides I wanted to discuss the ideas, rather than the movie, his analysis of it, or him. I was hoping the IQ would be higher here than on some other boards, but apparently not.
ok so how do you wanna embrace this descent exactly. kill yourself?
>>222734072Kill the delusion of a "self" possibly. What is the "self"? When observing another person, and I'm not talking about their body, but everything nonphysical that we think of as "a person", what is that exactly? It's a collection of various things; behavior, opinions, etc. Most of that is a product of something outside of that "person" in one way or another. It's a product of their environment, or it's a product of their genes, etc. When looking at a person you're never looking at "a person", you're always looking through them like a window into something outside them which produced that specific part of "that person". So where or what is "the person"? You're probably not going to find an answer. And this goes for yourself just as well.
>>222734330So the solution is to become a buddhist
