Are we watching a virtual kind of world that is crumbling?

Do we live in a hyper-materialistic driven environment? 

And how does this conflict with our spiritual self?

 

These days there is  a mind-numbing volume of supposedly important persons  expressing their opinion or even more impressive, their absolute belief about how to "restore the economy."

 

 Now, is it possible that some of these folks are living in a kind of virtual world that has been deliberately created or constructed by the more devious members of the great global financial world?  Whose agenda is the real one? What is that agenda?

 

The predictions and speculations pile up day after day constantly being "revised" as they react to the new, current information. Then you must question if the "information" is real.  Have the numbers and values been massaged or manipulated.  There are a surprising amount of billions and trillions suddenly appearing that were "off the books" and are now required  to be reported. 

 

Are we watching a virtual kind of world that is crumbling; its true form sliding in and out of focus? For the believers of their solid, comfortable world dissolves, we see them desperately trying to make it all seem right and logical. Repression, depression, hyperinflation, stagnation…words that are not often spoken.

 

Are some of these people responsible for the great collapse? And now are they the same ones appointed to fix it?

 

In the movie "The Matrix," Morpheus says the same thing:

 

"The Matrix is a system, Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many are so...hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."

 

THINK ABOUT IT!

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