Leo D.M.J. Aurini - March 28, 2026


SatW Livestream 2026-03-27： Occult & Gnostic Symbolism in the Matrix


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00:00:00.000 Good evening, folks. Oh, geez, all the lighting just changed. You know, I'm going to turn
00:00:09.340 that ceiling light on. Give me a look. There we go. That should be a little bit more reasonable,
00:00:17.960 I think. Good evening, folks. We are going to be discussing occult symbolism in the Matrix
00:00:29.860 series. We're going to be talking about narrative in general. Like, what is narrative? It's
00:00:37.000 kind of a question I've been grappling with my entire life. And I don't really know that
00:00:45.200 i have an answer but i definitely have some things i could say about it but before we get to that
00:00:54.020 and while we wait for let me see i need to switch to the live chat not the top chat
00:01:05.400 and there we go we already got starving vampires good to see you buddy and we got mr mr cod
00:01:13.300 commando 39 39 all right before we get to that i like to you know pat the beginning in case anyone's
00:01:25.680 five minutes late so kind of a kind of like the intro of indiana jones you can miss the first
00:01:31.360 five minutes and it doesn't really matter to the rest of the movie i'll tell you one of my pet peeves
00:01:37.100 is people who talk to me as if I didn't watch Star Trek growing up,
00:01:48.400 as if I didn't read anti-slavery literature as part of my English classes,
00:01:54.540 even though I'm in Canada.
00:01:55.860 I guess as Canadians, we patted ourselves on the back
00:01:59.800 for being such self-righteous recipients of the Underground Railroad.
00:02:07.100 as if I'm not familiar with all of this,
00:02:10.060 as if I didn't watch Captain Planet as a child.
00:02:14.660 If you're a Zoomer, yes, that's an actual show.
00:02:19.020 Go look up Sexual Lobster Spin on Captain Planet.
00:02:22.940 It's a lot funnier and has better plotting than the original TV series.
00:02:31.560 Let's see.
00:02:32.460 Mr. Cod Commando says,
00:02:34.520 we need you in a movie or video game voice.
00:02:36.360 I'd be down for it, man.
00:02:38.180 I've got no idea how to even apply or get involved in any of that.
00:02:43.380 More than happy to play a villain, too.
00:02:46.000 It's more fun playing a villain.
00:02:52.520 But yeah, I was just watching.
00:02:53.800 There's a series by...
00:02:56.100 I was watching it on my phone.
00:03:01.880 Wilhelm Iversen.
00:03:03.140 No, that's not...
00:03:06.360 I want to give you his name on YouTube.
00:03:08.160 See, I find the beginning parts never really planned out.
00:03:11.080 I actually have notes for the rest of the show.
00:03:12.660 But here we go.
00:03:18.420 Four.
00:03:19.640 No, not that one.
00:03:25.720 We are looking for American Krogan.
00:03:29.460 American Krogan has some really good videos analyzing video games and movies,
00:03:35.360 He's talking about the, how should we describe it?
00:03:43.340 You know that particular group of people that likes to hide in plain sight?
00:03:49.600 Yeah, he exposes a lot of narratives in those that, you know, if I were to tell you that the Bioshock series is a, how about you're a stupid goy that should serve your betters?
00:04:04.540 You'd think I was just being paranoid.
00:04:06.920 I was just being ridiculous.
00:04:08.380 It seems like quite the stretch, doesn't it?
00:04:10.500 He argues that very, very convincingly.
00:04:13.300 So check out American Krogan.
00:04:19.740 Yes, drive the tiny hats out from Congress.
00:04:22.520 Like, Jesus.
00:04:25.360 They do not play nice with others.
00:04:29.500 I mean, that's the problem.
00:04:30.920 They don't play nice with others.
00:04:34.020 Was it Truman that made that comment in private?
00:04:37.300 That they are so selfish.
00:04:41.980 They just do not care what anybody else's perspective is.
00:04:48.060 That's not me being hateful.
00:04:52.160 Again, I watched Captain Planet, okay?
00:04:54.580 I was a huge Star Trek fan.
00:04:58.140 I understood what they were all analogies for.
00:05:04.020 uh pain and pleasure says used to watch you back in 2014 to 17 yeah right around 2018 is
00:05:14.360 when i got kicked off of youtube i'm back thanks to trump
00:05:17.220 so it's just a pet peeve of mine as if i have arrived at the pin opinions i arrived at because
00:05:26.040 I'm some sort of small-minded, uneducated, rural hick bigot, mega Trump supporter.
00:05:35.860 When I was like, no, I've actually arrived at the conclusions I've arrived at, which
00:05:40.740 are nuanced and subtle and not black and white.
00:05:49.360 We're not swinging simplistic slogans around here.
00:05:56.040 But we're also not going to pretend that the crime statistics aren't exactly what they say they are and getting worse by the day.
00:06:06.220 Oh, by the way, you know how they like to say, like, this is the safest era of history to ever live in, right?
00:06:12.280 Like the murder rate is the lowest it's ever been.
00:06:16.900 A large part of that is because we are better at saving people who got shot.
00:06:21.760 so it's not that violent crime is going down it's just that violent crime isn't quite
00:06:28.220 as effective as it used to be so i i can't tell you how much of column a how much of column b it
00:06:35.740 could actually be safer and then safer plus because of the health care or it could be more
00:06:42.040 dangerous and actually the health care is just hiding those numbers i don't know which one it is
00:06:46.220 But I am, I am sick. I'm sick of pretending it's not.
00:06:59.780 Oh man, this is, Payton Pledge is great. He says, we need more of this than ever. Thank you.
00:07:05.540 A lot of people would disagree. Sorry, I still have that cough.
00:07:12.160 Back then, there used to be a leftist, libertarian, socialist, angsty teenager.
00:07:16.880 You and Stefan Molyneux.
00:07:17.740 Man, I want to get in touch with Stefan Molyneux.
00:07:19.980 I'd love to.
00:07:20.840 He seems like a cool cat.
00:07:22.520 I think he was just at a funeral today.
00:07:24.240 So, I don't know.
00:07:25.420 If you're on Twitter, go send him some love.
00:07:27.960 He looked really good in his funeral suit.
00:07:30.620 Fancy tie.
00:07:34.780 Oh, you're a firefighter EMT for years.
00:07:37.320 And yes, very true.
00:07:41.280 And again, I can tell you, it might actually be safer and we're saving more people.
00:07:45.240 I don't want to, again, I don't have the numbers in front of me, right?
00:07:49.640 There have been times when I've really dug down and I've got all the numbers.
00:07:56.240 I can do it.
00:07:58.600 But guys like Ryan Falk, the alt-hype, the alt-hypothesis he goes by now, guys like him are just so good at it.
00:08:08.680 and you know
00:08:11.020 it's
00:08:11.520 I don't want to be competing with him
00:08:13.820 I'm not in that guy's league when it comes to
00:08:16.360 chasing down sources, chasing down numbers
00:08:18.600 the guy's absolutely brilliant
00:08:20.260 and it's just like
00:08:24.420 I'm at the point in my life I get really exasperated
00:08:26.580 when
00:08:27.720 I was having conversations with a girl
00:08:30.500 about this sort of stuff
00:08:31.460 and she was actually being open minded
00:08:34.340 and asking genuine questions
00:08:35.740 she wasn't being a C word
00:08:38.260 u-word, n-word, t-word. But it's still
00:08:42.300 just, I am so tired of it. I am fatigued,
00:08:46.860 you might say. Remember, you're an ambassador
00:08:50.400 for your race.
00:08:54.000 People don't like you. Maybe blame the previous 500
00:08:58.360 ambassadors.
00:09:03.320 What kind of American are you?
00:09:08.260 Thank you. I look very hydrated.
00:09:13.880 How often do I go live?
00:09:15.760 It's very unpredictable these days.
00:09:18.820 I'm working oil patch, so that means I'm on...
00:09:22.820 Like, I start a job, I don't know how long it's going to be.
00:09:25.760 Could be two weeks, it could be five weeks.
00:09:28.100 I try and record some videos and release them while I'm at work.
00:09:34.020 And then stream when I'm at home.
00:09:36.040 I constantly feel like I'm not producing enough content, especially since there are some of you backing me on Patreon, and I really appreciate that.
00:09:45.580 But I also don't want, there's the constant threat of producing content for the content, right?
00:09:55.260 Just the treadmill, like CNN, breaking news every night, CNN has something to tell you.
00:10:01.240 I don't want to do that.
00:10:02.620 I want to tell you things when I have something to say.
00:10:05.320 And I actually do have something to say tonight.
00:10:11.060 Butterfly ballerina, glad to have you.
00:10:14.560 And all of that said, I think we've actually got some people in the chat now.
00:10:21.100 Yes, we're out of the retrograde.
00:10:23.660 I felt the hangover for a bit longer.
00:10:25.520 Well, no, that's kind of my problem.
00:10:27.980 I started something two days before the vernal equinox,
00:10:33.060 when I should have waited until the vernal equinox.
00:10:35.320 Whatever.
00:10:37.300 My fault for not following the stars.
00:10:42.180 Should have waited two days, but good lord, you could see that ass.
00:10:48.640 Anyway.
00:10:52.520 Stories.
00:10:53.300 What are stories?
00:10:54.740 We're going to be talking about the Matrix, about the occult significance in it.
00:10:58.600 Now, occult just means hidden.
00:11:06.960 The occult meaning of Star Wars is something like, one of the occult meanings, I should say, of the original Star Wars trilogy is that wars not make one great.
00:11:21.820 That there's always going to be a Star Wars for you to fight in.
00:11:25.400 Right? The first movie, Luke's the big hero, blows up the Death Star. Yippee-ki-yay. And there's always that shit going on. There's always some external enemy to fight. There's always some battle out there.
00:11:40.360 but the true struggle is an inner struggle.
00:11:45.580 The real challenge for Luke Skywalker
00:11:49.220 is not to be the best stormtrooper killer.
00:11:52.560 His real challenge is to re-engage with his father
00:11:56.180 and everything that represents.
00:11:57.680 So that would be the occult meaning of that.
00:12:00.540 You've got the exoteric meaning,
00:12:04.080 which is, you know, cool lightsabers and Star Wars and Jedi.
00:12:08.520 And then you've got the esoteric meaning, which is, what's the term?
00:12:17.040 Resolution with the father.
00:12:23.320 So occult doesn't mean evil.
00:12:31.320 But evil is usually occult.
00:12:33.240 you very seldom get exoteric evil you do sometimes like the the emperor in star wars is
00:12:46.080 exoteric evil he's evil and he's open about it he lets everybody know genghis khan was exoteric
00:12:54.500 evil, probably. But usually evil is more esoteric. It's more hidden. It's more subtle. It uses
00:13:03.760 misdirection. But the esoteric, the occult nature of something doesn't immediately mean
00:13:12.860 that it's evil. I mean, the whole Santa Claus mythology is occult parental love.
00:13:24.500 It's your parents summoning up this daemon, summoning up the spirit of a living saint to represent how they actually love their children.
00:13:40.640 Because they're stuck in the material world of sometimes you have to discipline your kids, sometimes you're tired from work, etc.
00:13:47.260 You're never going to be the perfect parent because you're too stuck in the timeline.
00:13:50.640 while Santa Claus is the mythological perfect parent.
00:13:56.900 And so parents put on the esoteric guise of Santa Claus
00:14:01.180 to give their children joy and abundance in the holiday season.
00:14:08.660 It doesn't have to be evil.
00:14:10.500 In fact, usually it's not.
00:14:12.960 All of the higher spiritual truths are esoteric.
00:14:16.800 All of the parables that Christ talks about are esoteric.
00:14:23.720 The other thing, Gnosticism.
00:14:25.720 I know this is something I once took kind of a hardline stance on.
00:14:30.800 And certainly Gnostic obsession can lead to a lot of trouble.
00:14:35.880 Gnosticism, briefly defined, is the conception that the system is out to get you.
00:14:44.260 It's out to harvest your louche.
00:14:47.940 And there's a lot of truth to that.
00:14:50.720 You might not like it, but there's a lot of truth to the Gnostic analysis.
00:14:55.280 Now, if you get utterly obsessed, then you start going crazy, cutting your own dick off, having orgies, abandoning your family.
00:15:08.820 Like all sorts of weird stuff starts happening.
00:15:10.880 So I also don't condemn the way that the Gnostic heresy was condemned by the church.
00:15:18.800 I think they had some pretty good reasons for doing that.
00:15:23.520 Loosh.
00:15:24.920 What is loosh?
00:15:26.900 So loosh is another one of these really ill-defined terms, from what I know.
00:15:32.320 Maybe somebody has a really good, very precise definition of it.
00:15:35.740 I haven't heard that one.
00:15:37.260 I'm not using that one.
00:15:38.440 I'm using Loosh in the general sense of harvesting your attention.
00:15:45.280 Loosh is your psychic energy.
00:15:48.920 It's your lifeblood.
00:15:51.560 It's what Egregores and Archons feed on.
00:16:01.220 egregores well egregores and archon the difference between an egregore and an archon
00:16:11.300 so an egregore is any any concept that has a life of its own countries are egregores so for instance
00:16:22.320 France, if
00:16:24.440 everybody in France
00:16:26.860 tomorrow, they
00:16:28.440 decided that they weren't French anymore,
00:16:30.820 they were Welsh,
00:16:33.240 and that they were subject
00:16:34.380 to the king,
00:16:36.900 would France still exist?
00:16:42.480 I mean, it kind of would in other people's
00:16:44.580 minds. Like, it'd still remain an egregore,
00:16:46.460 but it would be a
00:16:48.300 dead egregore, a memory of
00:16:50.520 an egregore.
00:16:52.320 Women feed on attention.
00:16:55.580 Are they demons in disguise?
00:17:01.460 No, but you are
00:17:03.260 onto something there.
00:17:10.400 There's
00:17:10.920 etheric exchanges.
00:17:13.420 Let's not get into that tonight, okay?
00:17:15.260 We already got too much to cover.
00:17:17.680 Last three months all over the place.
00:17:19.140 Today I have a lot I want to get to.
00:17:21.100 And I'm doing rabbit trails constantly.
00:17:24.880 So egregores are manufactured by people.
00:17:32.740 I'm not saying they're exclusively manufactured by people.
00:17:35.400 I am sure there is some astral, angelic component to them.
00:17:41.780 there was some spirit of Paris
00:17:45.180 that was primordial to the land
00:17:49.580 that became France, probably
00:17:52.540 there was like the whole Jedi thing
00:17:58.040 Jedi, Star Wars, that's another egregore
00:18:00.800 and it largely came from the mind of George Lucas
00:18:04.720 and the other artists he worked with
00:18:06.860 but there was also, if you believe in spiritual entity
00:18:11.720 as opposed to thinking
00:18:13.560 they're just mathematics
00:18:14.780 even though mathematics isn't just mathematics
00:18:17.280 you can have higher
00:18:21.420 and lower kind of meaning in the middle
00:18:23.200 so egregores
00:18:27.260 are these ideas
00:18:29.760 that have a life of their own
00:18:31.260 and yes they need attention
00:18:33.420 they need your louche
00:18:36.340 they do need your louche
00:18:38.220 it doesn't mean that you should never give your louche
00:18:41.840 Like, there are egregores that are worthy of your attention.
00:18:46.180 We're going to be talking about the Matrix.
00:18:47.880 The Matrix is an amazing egregore.
00:18:49.620 It's not quite as broad and perhaps bloated as the Star Wars egregore is.
00:18:58.660 But both Star Wars and the Matrix, these are egregores that give you things back in exchange.
00:19:04.720 archons
00:19:07.220 well
00:19:09.600 archons are a bit more complex
00:19:11.440 because they're kind of the building blocks of reality
00:19:13.740 itself
00:19:14.440 uh to spoiler
00:19:17.300 the machines in the matrix are archons
00:19:19.820 the matrix is not
00:19:21.800 about technology
00:19:22.580 it's not science fiction
00:19:25.720 it's well
00:19:27.340 most science fiction isn't
00:19:29.460 science forecast
00:19:30.700 it's fiction it's about the human
00:19:33.680 condition. It's about the metaphysical nature of reality, about cybernetics. It's, uh, yeah.
00:19:48.680 Don't worry about robots when we're talking about the matrix. Don't worry about chatbots.
00:19:54.120 So that's not what it's about. The, the matrix, the, the robots and matrix are archons.
00:19:59.440 They're the ones that make up the rules for the society. Archons like the legal system. Archons like capitalism, which, you know, the left loves to scream at capitalism, but it's just an archon.
00:20:16.440 archon. It's, money is just one of those things. Money, property, territory, breeding rights.
00:20:29.200 These are just things. These are archons. And you can rage against the machine as much
00:20:36.820 as you want, but you'll still wind up serving it. Just ask rage against the machine.
00:20:40.340 so yeah Archons in Ecuador is very similar
00:20:48.000 and again these are just
00:20:49.060 you can kind of use these terms in lots of different ways
00:20:51.760 I haven't exactly
00:20:55.000 written down a bestiary
00:20:58.140 it's a bestiary, bestiary
00:21:01.000 of how I use all these terms
00:21:03.420 so I'm being a little bit fast and loose
00:21:05.700 I'd say Archons are a little bit more primordial
00:21:09.820 to existence itself.
00:21:12.720 Egregores, you can forget about.
00:21:16.340 Indiana Jones used to be a major egregore,
00:21:18.840 but Indiana Jones is very faded at this point.
00:21:23.080 Same thing with the Western.
00:21:25.700 Westerns were a major egregore,
00:21:27.940 but they started dying in the 70s
00:21:29.620 with only a few, like,
00:21:32.080 good, the bad, and the ugly.
00:21:34.540 That was 70s, wasn't it?
00:21:36.860 What am I thinking? Tombstone.
00:21:37.960 Tombstone was kind of like the last final Western movie.
00:21:42.980 And the egregore died at that point.
00:21:56.400 So anyway, that laid out.
00:21:59.580 Let me get my, I got some notes here.
00:22:02.840 What is a story?
00:22:04.340 what have stories been over the the ages
00:22:11.180 this is going to be relevant when we get to the matrix because the matrix is
00:22:18.740 it's about our understanding of metaphysical reality it's about religion it's about stories
00:22:24.020 and
00:22:30.140 well
00:22:32.700 the most ancient stories we have
00:22:39.900 well the most ancient, the most primordial
00:22:45.360 the creation myths
00:22:47.920 in fact there's a
00:22:52.040 you know if you look at
00:22:55.200 you can look it up on YouTube, I didn't think of this before the stream
00:22:57.460 But there's a video on the oldest story, mankind's oldest story.
00:23:03.160 And the story is recreated in a similar manner that Proto-Indo-European is recreated, where they examine myths from various areas.
00:23:15.360 They kind of inferred what the original myth behind all of them was.
00:23:22.620 And if I recall correctly, it's about Ursus Major, the Big Dipper.
00:23:27.460 representing the
00:23:30.440 representing the
00:23:33.500 the prey animal that the hunter hunts
00:23:36.620 and how the prey animal keeps coming back
00:23:40.020 and renewing itself and represents nature renewing itself
00:23:43.360 very interesting YouTube video on that
00:23:46.020 in fact you know let me see if I can find this for you
00:23:49.720 give me one second
00:23:53.820 because this is absolutely fascinating
00:23:55.320 mankind's oldest story
00:24:01.320 do I get anything
00:24:02.460 one of the oldest
00:24:11.820 no that's not it
00:24:15.240 I am not seeing it, I'm sorry guys
00:24:18.620 but it's a simple creation story
00:24:23.220 explaining man's relationship to nature and how nature it's the i think a pregnant
00:24:31.540 deer or elk that gets chased and how like both the elk and the hunter get stuck in the sky
00:24:37.620 actually orion it might be orion orion's a very ancient celestial symbol
00:24:43.780 and so the the most ancient stories are creation myths or maybe creation is a little bit too
00:24:56.960 strong of a word for it but this is the way things are
00:25:01.820 that it gets cold in the winter and then things bloom in the summer
00:25:06.680 the next big set of stories you'll find
00:25:12.680 and I'm thinking about like the bronze age
00:25:16.340 the epic of Gilgamesh
00:25:17.520 in fact with the religious writings
00:25:21.160 of those times as well
00:25:22.800 which
00:25:27.220 are partly
00:25:32.320 well they're mostly social
00:25:35.860 justifications.
00:25:39.260 Why is the king in charge?
00:25:41.340 Because the king's the toughest guy.
00:25:43.820 Because he's a descendant
00:25:45.480 of Marduk.
00:25:46.900 King of the gods. God of magic.
00:25:52.920 Epic of Gilgamesh, which again, you can find
00:25:55.140 the audio book on this. It's about 40 minutes long.
00:25:57.900 You can find it on YouTube.
00:25:58.660 You owe it to your...
00:26:00.540 It's a good story, first of all. You're not going to be bored.
00:26:04.100 And you're
00:26:04.500 going to understand
00:26:06.440 a lot about where we came from.
00:26:09.280 So Epic of Gilgamesh
00:26:10.340 is kind of
00:26:11.860 an explanation.
00:26:14.400 This is why the king is in charge.
00:26:17.060 This is what the rules are.
00:26:18.800 This is why, you know,
00:26:20.980 well, I was going to say this is why Achilles
00:26:22.120 is such a cool guy.
00:26:24.200 Although Achilles is venturing into new territory.
00:26:28.640 As I mentioned on a
00:26:30.340 previous stream,
00:26:31.500 so Homer predated Christ
00:26:38.080 by about five centuries
00:26:39.420 about that
00:26:44.420 don't have the number in front of me
00:26:46.060 but in the
00:26:49.180 in the
00:26:50.700 story of the Trojan War
00:26:53.360 which is a mythologized version
00:26:55.800 of the actual Trojan War
00:26:57.560 which was a real historical event
00:26:59.920 the necessity of forgiveness
00:27:05.240 is implicit in the story
00:27:08.400 and I just say that
00:27:09.940 on the off chance
00:27:11.080 that I have any pagans listening
00:27:13.700 the pagans make a lot of good points
00:27:17.540 about Christianity being weaponized
00:27:20.300 against Europeans
00:27:21.020 they make some good points about that
00:27:23.380 but they take the good point
00:27:25.920 and they in my opinion
00:27:27.160 go way too far with it
00:27:28.640 and wind up provoking the enmity of their brothers.
00:27:33.460 When the, Nietzsche was correct
00:27:36.380 about the slave morality thing.
00:27:38.720 But not all forgiveness is slave morality.
00:27:42.700 And we even see Homer talking about this.
00:27:45.740 And I don't know of anybody claiming
00:27:47.840 Middle Eastern influence on Homer.
00:27:52.240 I mean, he was writing it before Judaism
00:27:54.680 was even a religion of the book.
00:27:58.640 so yeah you got these these adventure stories like uh like the epic of gilgamesh which are
00:28:09.560 about the character like they're kind of like saturday morning cartoons
00:28:13.460 they're they're not incredibly deep although they do have deeper implications
00:28:18.560 so let's see in my notes i kind of said that's the the yeah so zero would be creation stories
00:28:30.260 or an explanation of the the nature of the world you know winter then summer this is the cycle
00:28:35.980 then you have the justification stories of this is why the king is in charge
00:28:44.500 This is what's good, and this is what's evil.
00:28:49.120 Then you start to get the sort of fables of the Brothers Grimm,
00:28:53.860 which, guys, if you haven't read the original Brothers Grimm stories,
00:28:58.620 go get a copy of the original.
00:29:01.160 The Brothers Grimm were these German guys that went around collecting
00:29:03.800 all of the nursery tales that they could find.
00:29:13.980 And most of these tales have a lot of insight into the human condition.
00:29:18.620 One that sticks out is the fisherman's wife.
00:29:21.320 So the fisherman one day goes and he's fishing and he catches a fish and the fish says, I'm a magic fish.
00:29:28.640 And if you let me go, I'll give you a wish.
00:29:31.300 And, you know, he wishes that, oh, you know, I wish I had those things that make my wife happy.
00:29:37.880 And then he goes home and tells the wife the story.
00:29:41.120 and Shay said, well, and that's all you wished for?
00:29:43.160 Go wish for even more things that make me happy.
00:29:46.140 And it repeats twice over until she's got a massive palace,
00:29:49.180 all these servants, everything, and she's still not happy.
00:29:51.720 So he goes back to the fish and the fish is like,
00:29:53.940 you know what, buddy, your wife's a B word.
00:29:57.560 You're going back to the fisherman's hut.
00:30:02.160 Pointing out that, yes, women often make demands
00:30:06.140 that are completely unrealizable.
00:30:11.120 This is a natural side effect of how the dating game works.
00:30:17.940 A woman puts herself out there, attracts suitors, and tries to get the suitor that will make the biggest offer.
00:30:26.860 But far too often, especially, like, this is a bad habit that's being exploited in our current society.
00:30:36.100 women are encouraged to hold out
00:30:39.920 for better, better, better, better offers
00:30:41.960 you know there's that joke
00:30:44.040 about the department store for men
00:30:45.700 and it's like level 9 they have good jobs
00:30:47.560 and they're tall and they're great in bed
00:30:49.300 and they have a mansion
00:30:51.080 and I wonder what's on floor 10
00:30:53.800 floor 10's empty
00:30:55.260 and now you don't have anything
00:30:56.960 so that's the Brothers Grimm stories
00:31:02.360 with the
00:31:05.900 Let me go through these again. So zero would be the creation myths about the hunter chasing the deer. Some of these are quite horrific. You don't really empathize with the protagonist. You don't want to be the protagonist. It just tells you things about the world.
00:31:24.900 uh layer one which i'm equating with the epic of gilgamesh these are a little bit more
00:31:32.400 aspirational they're a little bit more like saturday morning cartoons but you still don't
00:31:40.100 totally empathize like you don't view yourself as gilgamesh you just think he's super cool with
00:31:48.380 everything he's doing now that number two the kind of like the what we start getting over the
00:31:56.100 past couple thousand years these didn't have a lot of moral insight you can empathize more with
00:32:01.360 the protagonist but they're still very much separate from you um in fact very often with
00:32:09.260 the brothers grim stories these are people making bad decisions that you're supposed to learn from
00:32:15.340 and then finally you get these modern stories
00:32:20.220 these movies
00:32:21.340 in particular
00:32:22.960 by the way has anybody commented in a while
00:32:29.780 I'm not seeing any new comments
00:32:31.080 I'm going to refresh the page
00:32:32.760 actually no what I can do is go here
00:32:37.160 and where the
00:32:39.080 my live stream of comments died
00:32:41.600 even though it does appear
00:32:46.580 that I'm still streaming
00:32:47.400 so these
00:32:54.120 these new movies
00:32:56.840 you are the protagonist
00:32:59.400 you are Luke Skywalker
00:33:02.860 I am Luke Skywalker
00:33:04.240 you are Neo
00:33:05.300 I am Neo
00:33:06.600 These are our living dreams.
00:33:13.980 Oh, comment. Thank you.
00:33:16.100 Divide by zero.
00:33:21.940 Appreciate it.
00:33:24.520 You are Harry Potter.
00:33:27.980 I know, I'm probably way too harsh on those movies.
00:33:30.380 for those that don't know
00:33:36.300 I don't like Harry Potter
00:33:37.480 it actually really drives me up the wall
00:33:39.200 but I'm probably way too harsh
00:33:42.360 I just hated the Quidditch game
00:33:48.020 I thought it was stupid
00:33:48.880 it's just
00:33:51.880 the damn things are just too precious
00:33:54.180 for me
00:33:55.160 which
00:33:57.420 by the way
00:33:58.540 by the way just a comment there
00:34:01.220 I am not the rock
00:34:06.780 I don't need
00:34:10.820 to go fast to get the most
00:34:13.320 furious car ever
00:34:14.300 got no interest in that
00:34:16.300 so it's not that all movie
00:34:18.560 now these Marvel movies have kind of devolved
00:34:21.220 to this pablum where it is
00:34:22.700 everything is just so
00:34:25.100 paint by numbers
00:34:26.640 the fact that these movies speak to us so deeply
00:34:31.680 is not
00:34:33.300 not an assault on our individualism
00:34:37.780 when they're good movies
00:34:39.720 when they're movies like Star Wars
00:34:41.360 or The Matrix or even Harry Potter
00:34:43.360 or even The Fast and the Furious quite frankly
00:34:47.340 even though I can't stand that subculture
00:34:48.880 20 years ago it was a subculture
00:34:53.660 kids
00:34:54.060 I was goth, okay?
00:34:58.260 I wasn't Street Racer.
00:35:08.640 So there is some individual nature to all of these.
00:35:13.560 Oh, hey, yeah.
00:35:14.660 Do I need some background vibe music?
00:35:17.220 Yes, we absolutely do, man.
00:35:18.900 Toss some up.
00:35:20.220 Toss some up.
00:35:20.840 We'll get that playing.
00:35:24.060 But, yeah, we are all Neo.
00:35:38.860 Now, let's get into the matrix itself.
00:35:42.920 And what a perfect frickin' time.
00:35:47.980 If that will open right there.
00:35:54.060 basically I based my entire personality
00:35:59.380 off of a combination of Luke Skywalker
00:36:01.640 Neo
00:36:02.860 and the Fallout series
00:36:05.800 there we go
00:36:13.660 so this is some music from JT
00:36:14.960 Starving Vampires
00:36:16.220 in the chat
00:36:18.100 let's see if we can get the volume right
00:36:25.100 for this
00:36:26.100 turn it up a bit
00:36:33.280 perfect
00:36:39.480 let's
00:36:42.820 get into the matrix
00:36:48.100 Should I keep these on all street?
00:36:53.760 Actually, they're gray lenses, so I can see the computer just fine.
00:36:59.180 Let's keep them in for a while.
00:37:01.140 Let's talk about the Matrix Reloaded.
00:37:05.200 Let's talk about that extremely confusing scene with the architect.
00:37:18.100 Hello, Neo. Who are you? I am the architect. I created the matrix. I've been waiting for
00:37:35.080 you. You have many questions and although the process has altered your consciousness,
00:37:39.860 you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some
00:37:47.940 of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent,
00:37:53.580 you may or may not realize, it is also the most irrelevant.
00:38:00.020 Why am I here, says Neo.
00:38:05.940 Down below, down below in the description is a link to The Matrix, a video by The Matrix
00:38:14.660 explained. This guy's been making videos about the Matrix for 10 freaking years, and he hasn't
00:38:20.540 run out of content yet. It's impressive. It's very impressive. Some of the videos are better
00:38:28.100 than others. The one down below is absolute top notch. So earlier, we were talking about
00:38:36.200 Archons. We were talking about Egregores. What the hell is the Matrix actually about?
00:38:44.660 As I said, all of us are Neo.
00:38:50.240 The Matrix...
00:38:51.660 By the way, tell me if the music is too loud.
00:38:55.080 I'll turn it down a little bit.
00:39:02.360 The Matrix is the trap that we all find ourselves in.
00:39:05.060 It is the Gnostic trap.
00:39:07.140 It is this demiurge
00:39:10.040 that controls the whole system.
00:39:12.620 where you're damned if you do,
00:39:15.980 if you're damned if you don't.
00:39:19.060 It's like sitting at a poker table in a casino
00:39:22.240 where you can't win,
00:39:24.860 you can't even break even,
00:39:27.100 and you're not allowed to get up from the table and leave.
00:39:35.960 That's what The Matrix is about.
00:39:38.020 It's about this treadmill that we're all on.
00:39:43.620 Now, earlier, who was it, was asking me how often I stream,
00:39:47.480 and it's like, I don't know, man, because I'm working my ass off.
00:39:50.420 I spend day after day after day after day doing a job.
00:39:54.980 I mean, it's honest work.
00:39:57.980 I don't hate it.
00:40:00.680 Most of the guys I work with are okay.
00:40:03.520 It's not what I want to be doing.
00:40:09.620 And Butterfly Ballerina, I saw that.
00:40:11.340 um random weekday morning live stream you know that's i'll keep that i'll keep that in mind
00:40:20.060 i'll keep that in mind
00:40:24.220 i worry about releasing disorganized bad content
00:40:29.420 but maybe sometimes who knows who knows
00:40:32.460 so here i am devoting so much my life energy of my time just grinding and grinding and grinding
00:40:44.940 why
00:40:49.020 the matrix is that system that keeps you unself-reflective
00:41:02.460 as you grind.
00:41:06.860 Actually, wait a minute.
00:41:07.700 Oh, what's this?
00:41:08.360 I don't want to sign up for free.
00:41:11.460 Can we go back one?
00:41:16.780 Or should I just do the whole playlist?
00:41:19.760 All right, JT.
00:41:20.380 I'm just going to do the whole playlist
00:41:21.480 unless it gets too weird.
00:41:28.140 All right.
00:41:28.740 Was that even you?
00:41:29.860 I don't know.
00:41:32.460 Shuffle. There we go. Loop.
00:41:39.620 Yeah, we got loop going. That should be fine.
00:41:47.700 Okay, yeah, that wasn't JT's music, so we'll just loop JT's music.
00:41:53.240 We don't want copyright strikes over some sort of nonsense here.
00:42:02.460 So yes, it just sent me another trick.
00:42:09.520 So the Matrix is the system that keeps you distracted.
00:42:16.900 One of the points the Matrix Explained makes, let's go back to that quote.
00:42:24.700 The architect says your first question may be the most pertinent.
00:42:28.540 you may or may not realize is also the most irrelevant and neo asks why am i here
00:42:35.700 the matrix explained points out nobody asked the question why am i here
00:42:44.620 until we