Thursday, April 7, 2011

blog:8 red pill or blue pill: is ignorance bliss?

The article is about "choice". The author gives two examples which are two films, "The Matrix" and "Alice in wonderland". In the article, it mentioned another article "the allegory of the cave", which also talks about choosing the turth or the illusion, and it tells us that he reality adn the turth might not be choosen by most of people, because of the reality is not always pleasant for us.

Then the author wrote about the protagonist of the movie " The Matrix",Neo and other rebels' training,the "jump program" and other tranings. By surffering from the pain in the real world. There is a guy ,Cypher thought he made a wrong choice to live in the real world, because the reality didn't make him satisfied. So he decided to deal with the bad guy in order to back to the unreal world and enjoy it. The author also gives another philosoper's idea to represent his point of view about what happened in the film which is: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

The main idea of the article is when people make choice between the illusion and the turth, there's also anthor choice about living in illusions saitisfeid or face to the unpleasant reality and work it out by ourselves.

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