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THE ATLAS OF THE SCREENS
The Matrix
The Matrix
nature
The Wachowskis' film: a made world mistaken for the real one, a hidden city called Zion, a protagonist woken from it, and a plot that turns on being told the truth and choosing to know it.
The most widely seen Gnostic story ever told, and the reason "red pill" entered the language. ⚠ The Gnostic structure is unmistakable and the film does not claim it. And this app has to note what happened next: the awakening metaphor has since been taken up by movements the film was not making an argument for, which is a live demonstration of a thing ⊞ the reality tunnel keeps saying — that a frame for seeing through frames is not itself protected from being one.
rhymes with
sephirahdaat
whyDa'at — knowledge, and specifically knowledge that changes the knower. The Gnostic sephirah, if there were one.
tags
the matrix · wachowskis · gnostic · zion · red pill
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