Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Gnosticism

Gnosticism, The Matrix, and The allegory of the cave, all have the same concept of what there message is giving to the people. Its good to know how these thoughts about being ruled or political theory, were not just around the start of world war 1. But it was awaken in text by Plato, student of socrates, and is now supported with films such as, The Matrix. Gnosticism, is the basic teachings of the spirit of man, how it can never be perfect for the simple fact that were human beings. The same way the matrix in the film taught us. The machines took over the humans to control them, in other words, it was beleived that man itself can not govern and live liberally equal amongs others. Neo escaped from this nightmare of ignorance, and faced his entrapment by actually fighting with the metaphorical machines. The machines in the allegory of the cave are the shadows that lie to the prisoners. The shadows gave the prisoners a game to play, and judge each other with there skills, the same way we saw almost every one in a suit or office in the matrix. The allegory of tha cave, and the matrix are connected because the humans/prisoners supported the method of being enslaved by living off to what benefits them. In the matrix, "The Truth" is the ship where they lived in, the same way The Sun was for the excerpt in Allegory Of The Cave. Gnosticism teaches us the way to live by these socialist laws, and not be fully trapped into how were meant to think, and do by the people that sets our living which are politicians.

2 comments:

nick said...

I like how you compared the matrix
with the philosophies behind Gnosticism and Allegory of The Cave.

helen. said...

yahh goodddd! i hope machines don't take over the world in the near future...=o