The Control of Fear

Your thoughts and reactions are a big part of the way you were conditioned to react to certain situations.  With that, feelings like fear, love and what your definition of freedom is may differ as well.  Films like, V for Vendetta, sends a deep message about how it is so easy to give in controlled thought because of laziness, lack of knowledge, or plain out fear.  All of these may be learned and influenced by what you see or what you choose to expose yourself to.  Sometimes there are hidden agendas with groups sending their message that may influence you to sway towards their favor.  This film seemed very political charged and I felt that it was a message to the system that England has given into. 

England automatically comes to mind because of how it is known as the surveillance-society.  Having cameras on almost every street corner produces a fear whether consciously or unconsciously.  The thought of being watched doesn't make anyone feel at ease.  So I really felt that it was a message about the whole big brother idea.  Having satellites watching, scoping and transmitters surrounding all of us causes some to not be free with thought and the way they live their life.  This also may help groups influence the reaction they would like you to succumb to.  Being non threatening, unaware, passive little citizens was a common reaction to the society that was in V for Vendetta.  Only until you are exposed to pain you are aware of existence to self. 

What I'm trying to get at is that through every system, something is learned and what you take from it helps you think about what your next moves would be when faced with a challenge.  There were many stories within the plot that had a message to the viewer.  Do not give into fear because of pain.  Fear played a huge part of what was happening to Evey as well.  Evey was a part of the norm that went about her monotonous, meaningless life.  She was aware of the system that was built around her and the suppression of normal human expression that was being controlled through her parents.  Through another system of suppression brought to her by the character V she was awakened to the truth that had been looking her in the face since she was a child.  You have the ability to chose what your demise would be and that action alone will shape you.  Evey becoming fearless opens her minds eye to what is going on around her.  Although her exposure to the truth came about cruel and unthinkable it still taught her something very important.  This system of being conditioned into thinking further beyond the results was an important part of her life.  The strength to become free has been within her and her will is strong.  A domino effect of this thought reaches out to people in the masses and the power of knowledge leads to an complete uproar of this society.  Revolutions give rise to new thought and order all the time.  Knowing something is wrong or corrupt causes many of us to rise up and think outside the box. 

Evey's captivity in itself was a kind of imprisonment.  Like the prisoners in Plato's Allegory Cave, the one freed was exposed to the truths about life.  Things aren't always what they seem to be.  Your ability to control your actions and control the fear that eats you up can be taken a hold of.  What you have been conditioned to believe or react can be changed for the better.  We know that being influenced could go so far to the point where you get stuck in a monotonous sort of march in your life though.  We all can and have fallen victims to this train of thought in our lives.  Your definition of a productive day becomes so natural and comfortable that sometimes we don't question why we do the things we do religiously.  Days turn into weeks, weeks into months and so on and so forth and habits of being silenced or living in fear is passed on from generation to generation.  The importance of knowing that you have a choice to break free from this cycle seemed to be one of the biggest themes.

Another thing that came across to me was that knowledge is power.  The more you know the more attainable conclusions you are aware of.  The more you are aware of the more you could identify what must be changed and not ignored.  Sharing this knowledge and passing it on will also be a struggle.  Making moves to progress will seem a minute gesture compared to the lesson at hand once these feelings become fueled by things that are not right.  I think that the importance of revolution is good for humanity to progress.   I am not saying go ahead and throw a fit about everything that you feel is unjust and wrong but having a great orderly way of organizing to better all is a good way of going about injustice.  Without order there is complete chaos.  But in order to gain this level of progression that is good for all there must be some sort of set of rules that we have to respect.  When these set of rules become distorted or influenced by greed this is when the system starts to fail.  

Breaking free from a failed system and gaining knowledge of what corruption underlying what these groups were practicing an important revelation to the film.  So be it a cave, corrupted political system, fear as a suppressor it is important that you seek the truth of it all and step back and think about what is going on.

Your Lying Eyes

Following the ideas of Plato's Allegory Cave in comparison to what I took from the movie the Matrix I feel that the theme was that perception is subjective. The things you see in life that stimulates experiences in your memory bank can affect how you view situations thus, effecting your response. Results are infinite depending on all the tangible results so one may or may not be able to stumble upon all of the truths to life.  The decision you may have for yourself when you face something new can answered only by the few results to the paths you choose. So the question of your experiences that you have under your belt isn't enough in comparison to the complexity of a difficult situation in which you are forced to decide poses a big problem if your searching for the truth.  One truth may be true completely through and through for one individual according where they are viewing it and the same for you.  Being the product of your environment is a direct result of you being bias.  The normal situations become somewhat of a home to self.  Home becomes comforting and in that comfort habit is formed.  Once that habit becomes a part of your ritual it becomes a part of you.  The characteristics that become a part of you is a direct result of your environment.  In the case of the theme at hand is that environment leads you to believe that the world has a set of rules that things must abide by as far as result.  I am not talking about the results of gravity or basic physics.  Just simply that the world is a learned place for both the mind and the body.  You are conditioned to have learned reactions to a system.  The question you have to ask yourself is what kind of system are you being exposed to.  Because we are trained to have a systematic reaction we don't question things the ending result.  The result you are left with is expected.  A learned norm can begin to act as a blinder to the other events that are happening without your knowledge because of your assumption of things.  Whether you look at it scientifically, spiritually, or politically whatever path you go down the stance you take is influenced by your very own skewed perspective.  Scientifically, our knowledge is minuscule to what time itself has experienced.  So what we think we know may not be all that should be or could be known.  We are a part of a galaxy within a universe in which we do not really know where  begins or ends.  For example, black holes can bend time, space, and gravity at to its will.  Spiritually, we are unable to know what happens to self after death.  Politically, we are informed of only what is given to us through mass media. So on and so forth, the human mind isn't capable seeing the world all the dimensions so in that we are victims to ignorance.  Knowledge is infinite and this itself causes a problem what the truth really is.