theawoken
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Posted: Nov 25th, 2007 at 09:20 am
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Sartre says that we are responsible for the world and for man. He says this because we are able to transcend the world "in-itself". The world is an object, and the world is full of objects. We, as "for-itself" beings, can transcend the world and look at it with a detached view. As "for-itself" beings, we create our own meaning. Even in that we can change the meaning whenever we want to. So how does this involve the matrix?
I remember when the matrix came out people would ask if the world was actually like that. People wondered we lived in a "fake" constructed world and if we could leave this fake world and live in the "real" world. When looking at world with Sartre's view, life is very similar to the matrix. Once religion, morals, and M-eaning lose their value we are detached from the world. Those absolutes no longer mean anything. We walk around in the world and see people who are subject to these rules, but we who recognize that we are "for itself" beings we transcend this "fake" consructed world, and are free to create our own world and our own identities.
In the beginning of the Matrix Neo is just some guy who works in a cubical, a few days later he is in a computer program loading up on guns and then enters the world armed with the knowledge of numerous martial arts and combat techniques.
Life is analogous to that now. We have the freedom to create our own identities. In fact, since we are responsible for the world, we create our own perception of it as well.
what do you guys think?
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