Morpheus: 'You are a slave, Neo.'... A Prison for Your Mind | The Matrix | [wage slavery]

Morpheus: You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind….

wage slave
someone who must work so they can earn enough money to live on and pay for the things they need:

Noam Chomsky: It's very hard to recognize one's subordination to a system of power

"We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television."
- Howard Zinn: Changing Minds, One at a Time (2005)

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Elective Affinities (1809)

[wonkmonk]

Noam Chomsky: YOU ARE A WAGE SLAVE (and you don't even realize it)

[balrogofmorgoth]

to this day, one of the best movies ever made. so serious, so profound, yet goofy at times, humorous, thought-provking, mind challenging, yet a love story deep in its essence. they don't make them like this anymore. tenet perhaps, interstellar maybe, inception probably, predestination here and there, continue the line

[godstuff]

This clip is sooo good! "because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God...
....and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind..." Rom 8:21 & 12:2