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

Morpheus: Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?

Neo: The Matrix?

Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Morpheus: That 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)

[Mert-qmub]

The best scene in the history of cinema. I'm not accepting any objections.

[mirimyertutan]

“You can feel it when you pay your taxes”

Can’t get any more true than that

[dostoguven]

It is so real I feel sick watching this.

[davewoodring]

People have been dumbed down for control

[matthewvilla-gomez]

THE TRUTH IS THAT WE ARE NAKED DROPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF FKING NO WHERE

[MGSVxBreakpoint]

Unfortunately, no one can be *told* what The Matrix is. You have to buy the DVD yourself.

[danielborges.]

Since I am a student and practitioner of philosophy in life and on a daily basis, I see this sequence and it immediately comes to mind what Ayn Rand has brought to us. For me the Objectivism that gives material to break this prison for your mind. Thanks for sharing.

[lucaseternalspirit]

When you wake up why is so fucking hard, I’m not a slave.. I don’t wanna be a matrix slaven

[TheOriginalEmceeKenzie]

One of my favorite movies of all time.

[defrag]

You own nothing and you will like it and be happy.

[verschlusssache]

Its not "[wage slavery]".
Its Tax cattlery.

[andrewbooslaa]

If only people realized they are talking about YOU and I. Get up work, go back to the house sleep. Wake up and do it again and again. Slaves. "Despite all my rage I am still just a RAT in a cage".

[greglogan]

I'm not a number - I'm a free man!

[mrfred]

empty space, reminds me of Max Weber and his analysis

[AnotheRacer_Jiggles]

I feel sick watching this, i swear when i type first letters of this i almost throw up.

[johnbullwick]

^^^This is absolutely incorrect ^^^^ Slave is just a temporary condition, you are something far more than that before you became a slave.