Families are matrices that try to preserve the father/mother/son/daughter identities. They start to break down when the identities start to crack. E.g. the teenage years.
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A matrix is an ecosystem of actions that preserves an identity. E.g. a central hearing system wants to preserve an identity of a specific tenperature.
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Companies, groups, and countries are each matrices that seek to preserve identities of their constituents.
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A matrix is considered authoritarian if the box it gives you for identity is too small
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Lack of a matrix is very scary. Without an identity there is no existence. Lack of a matrix is the same as death and the same as ultimate freedom.
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You can only feel the matrix, and so know of its existence, when you pish at it by trying to change identities. Many matrices are lined with spikes. By steering away from pain you never realize the matrix.
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Matrices can fight each other. A matrix that supports the spartan warrior identity forces an individual to push into the spikes of their matrix that identities them as a weak child.
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Being able to manipulate the matrix means having control over your identity.
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Extreme example. Being tortured? Presto, now you’re a masochist and enjoying it.
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Smaller example. Colleague being annoying? You can let it go and still care about them. Perhaps by utilizing a motherly or fatherly identity.
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Most people have control over their identities because they associate with an identity that have a certain set of accepted identities to play. The angry mother for example can pause scolding the child to take a phone call.
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Seeing through a specific matrix doesn’t mean you understand the concept of matrices in general. A common symptom is the belief in having arrived at some sort of pinnacle “real world”
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A “Real World” is basically a matrix that affirms our “Chosen Identity”, who we think we are. If someone worships money and power growing up, their real world is realized when they make partner at a famous VC firm because that’s how they dream of themselves.
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Real freedom does not arise as a consequence of realizing a specific identity but in the ability to let go of any identity.
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Letting go of an identity is hard and scary. It feels like dying. Like facing the IT creature. If you don’t feel that fear, you’re only kidding yourself that you’ve really let go.
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Most of us won’t even let go petty squabbles at work. They’re dangerous to our identity as “useful things having a right to exist because of said usefulness”.
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